PowerPoint articles OneNote articles   Recommended Links, Newsgroups, and Newsletters   Get Help directly from Kathy	Web www.onppt.com Creating Depth within a Slide Presentation by Bart Jones Looking to add some extra punch to your presentations? Check out these tips from new PowerpointAnswers.com writer, Bart Jones, on adding depth to your slide objects! If you understand anything at all about photography, you can create impressive 3-D layouts in PowerPoint. SmartDraw is the easy drawing software that lets you create perfect charts, diagrams, and illustrations for all your PowerPoint presentations. SmartDraw has over 50,000 pre-drawn symbols and templates for you to use. Drawing is easy, simply drag and drop the images into your diagram. SmartDraw works seemlessly with PowerPoint, just copy and paste right into your presentation. Click here to download SmartDraw free for 30 days. Exciting pictures have two things in common: perspective and depth. You create perspective when you bend down and snap a shot of your two year old walking across the room, or when you get eye level with a flower. Depth of field is the perceived distance between objects in the foreground and objects in the background. Distance creates depth. Depth keeps people interested. When you create a Powerpoint presentation, your audience views your slides just like they would see a picture in a picture album. They expect to see good composition, perspective, depth, and other things like color, shading, etc. Vivid clipart images and backgrounds add color to your Powerpoint slide. Creating a realistic perspective and depth is up to you. The tips up above can help you get started. You may not have pictures or clipart in your presentation. Shapes, like those below on the Drawing Toolbar, can also be formatted with 3-D effects. For example, look at the difference in the plain slide and the slide with depth added in this graphic: How to do it (from the help menu in PowerPoint) You can also add a 3-D effect to lines, AutoShapes, and freeform objects using built-in toolbars. With 3-D options, you can change the depth (the extrusion) of the object and its color, rotation, angle, direction of lighting, and surface texture. When you change the color of a 3-D effect, the change affects only the 3-D effect of the object, not the object itself. An object can have either a shadow or a 3-D effect, but not both - if you apply a 3-D effect to an object that has a shadow, the shadow disappears. Add, change the 3-D effect of an object Select the object you want to change. On the Drawing toolbar, click 3-D . To add a 3-D effect, click your option. To change a 3-D effect, (for example, its color, rotation, depth, lighting, or surface texture) click 3-D again, click 3-D Settings, and then click the options you want on the 3-D Settings toolbar. Tip: To add the same 3-D effect to several objects at one time (the same color, for example), select or group the objects before you add the effect. Bart Jones is a Computer Training Specialist for the United States Customs Service. He is currently based out of Indianapolis, but enjoys traveling across the nation training Custom's employees on their desktop applications. Outside of work, Bart is also a Baptist minister and helps develop three yearly marriage conferences to strengthen family relationships. He can also be heard periodically on 101.5 FM, Sunday mornings on "Counsel from the Kingdom" at 9:30 a.m. Copyright 2002 Looking for more great 3D tricks? Check out Glen Millar Communications! Glen ofers information on using PowerPoint to create 3D presentation pages and complex animations in PowerPoint.
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