Make your shape transparent by clicking on the paint can icon > Transparent, and remove the outline of the shape by going to Line Color > Transparent.Resize it to fit over a logical part of your image that you want to be interactive. Make it your background by clicking on Background at the top of your screen and inserting the image. First, you’ll have to have an image that you want to make interactive.Now, when you present the slideshow, you can just click on your shape to open the music track in another tab.Ĭreate interactive images that link to other slides.Insert a shape or text box. Highlight your shape, right-click it, and insert the link to your music track.Copy the link to the music track you’d like to include (we used a SoundCloud file), and head back to your presentation.In our video tutorial, we’ll show you our favorite way, but keep in mind there are other ways to do this. There is no official support for music in Google Slides, but there are a few ways to work around this. The right music can enhance almost any presentation. Use the arrow keys to move the image pixel by pixel around the page, allowing you to be as precise as you want with your placement.Select your picture, and then hold down the shift key on the keyboard.You might have found that placing images in Google Slides using the mouse or keyboard arrows can be somewhat clumsy and imprecise at times, because you can’t get the position quite right. Move images pixel by pixel for precise placement This will apply it to all slides in the project rather than just to a single slide, so use whichever method fits your needs best. Slide the transparency slider until you’re happy with how faded the image becomes, making the perfect background for a slide.Īnother way to do this is create a transparent image in another program, then click on Background at the top of your screen, and upload the image.Right-click on the image, and choose image options.Next, resize the image so that it fills up the whole slide.First, insert an image that you want as the background of your slide by going to Insert > Image.Add a faded/transparent background imageįaded images work very well as background images because they provide visual interest, yet aren’t so overwhelming that they distract your audience and overshadow your text. Here are a few great ways to spice up your Google Slides with photos and music. Okay, so this was a really close call if it would be worth going to the extra effort in Photoshop to create separate images.If you want to take your Google Slides presentation from “good” to “awesome,” you can turn to these helpful multimedia tricks. The angle is also based on the rectangle of the placeholder, so the reflection angle is more distorted. In this case even with it on the closest setting, there is still a gap. It also was manually adjusted to have a bit less of an angle to better match the original graphic (see sample below for more visual example). Note the reflection starts butted up to image, and can be easily adjusted. This is the Photoshop reflection inserted as a separate image. It’s all about the angle – PPT 2007’s reflection tool really works best on elements that are flat, or horizontal. There is no way to animate on visual effects PPT creates.Ģ. This visually adds depth and another level of animation. Animation – when you view the entrance animation, note that the reflection comes in just a bit behind the actual lens image.
Further, the reflection effect in PPT 2007 is great!ġ. using PPT2007’s new reflection feature.įirst, I am a HUGE supporter of Microsoft’s investment adding better visual effects tools.
As a quick follow up to last week’s animation sample (and response to a number of emails), here is why I used Photoshop to create the reflection vs.