making icons and buttons in powerpoint
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Little known features in PowerPoint to manipulate and create simple graphic elements for webpages (e.g. SharePoint home pages). Make buttons on your pages instead of filling the page with content. Many people turn to a Photoshop like product when they have what they may need in an Office program. These slides show some basic techniques in PowerPoint to make icons. Download for some steps in the speaker notes areaTRANSCRIPT
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USING NOTHING BUT POWERPOINT
MAKING ICONS AND BUTTONS
Jennifer MartinezAllegient (Indianapolis, IN)
[email protected]: IndySPJen
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Making Buttons in
PowerPoint
Understanding the different
graphics
• Can be edited o WMF
• Can be recolored and cropped o JPG
o PNG (often reflective or use gradients)
1. Illustrations
* Look for WMF files
* PNG are illustrations, but
act like JPG when trying to
edit
2. Photographs are any JPG file
* can only be recolored in
PPT
* need photo editor to edit
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Selecting a Graphic
Mouse over the image and
view the file type in the
bottom right
WMF is the best chance for
editing
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Think Creatively
1. Look for elements you
can remove or combine.
* Items should be ON
TOP
* Be wary of colors or
lines that go throughout
the whole picture
• Delete extra content
• Recolor the phone
• Make the pen wood grain
• A+ becomes KIMS
KIMS
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Choose wisely
• Too many color transitions
• Black runs between objects
1. Avoid complex graphics
2. Avoid too many layers
3. You may get lucky
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Editing a file
• If Edit Picture isn’t avail – it can’t be edited. (see manipulating pictures)
• Ungroup the first time will convert to a drawing object
1. Edit Picture
2. Group, Ungroup,
Regroup
3. Arrange Layers
4. Resize (aprox 1”)
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Save as Picture
• Select all pieces first
• Paste as Pictureto resize all pieces together
1. Right click > Save as
Picture
2. Copy > Paste as Image
These actions are not available
in WORD
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Manipulating Pictures
• Picture tab on the Ribbon
1. Color
2. Artistic Effects
3. Remove Background
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Remove Background
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Consistency1. Know your size
1. Button on a website aprox .95”
2. Pick a color palette
3. Recolor
1
+ +
=
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White Boxes1. Use to produce evenly
sized graphics when
other items have a
colored square behind
them.
2. Use to hide areas of a
graphic that you can’t
remove or crop
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The white box has a dotted line border added for illustration, but would be removed for presentation. It hides the unnecessary upper right corner to focus attention on the left graphic.
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WAS
IS
The white box is the same size as the blue in order to produce consistent size buttons. The gray is for the benefit of editing within the presentation and would not be saved with the final image.
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