Desaturate not working?

[Brian Lynn]

PowerPoint 2007 "Desaturate" animation doesn't seem to be doing anything at
all!

"Darken" animation doesn't seem to be doing anything at all either!

Is there a way to change the Transparency of a picture like I could in 2003?
(NOT pick a color for transparent, the entire picture... transparency of say
50% so I can show through another image behind it?)

Thanks!

 

[Brian Lynn]

Well now Ive noticed that the Desaturate and Darken works on text but not
pictures...

Basically I have a client who built a presentation on a Mac and set an image
to 50% transparency behind an identical image, faded out the full image,
leaving the transparent image and then placed text over all that. The effect
is a logo that fades away to reveal a darkened logo and then the text is
highly visible over it... I can't seem to duplicate this look with PPT2k7
because I can't set the transparency of the logo like I can in other versions
of PPT... Help!!

Thanks

 

[Brian Lynn]

I appreciate the suggestion and while it does work its horrible... what a
ridiculous way to do something that used to be simple...

No wonder most of my clients prefer to use Keynote... The more I work with
PPT2k7 the more I am headed that way myself.

Microsoft has forced me to buy my first Macintosh computer EVER!!

 

[Lucy Thomson]

Hi Brian

Under emphasis animations look for 'transparency'. Is that what you are
after?

Lucy

 

[Brian Lynn]

That works for this particular situation, thanks!

It doesn't help me set the transparency of a picture within a presentation
but it definately solves the issue I was trying to fix originally.

 

[Lucy Thomson]

If you set the transparency animation to 'with previous' then it appears
transparent in slide show mode without you being able to see an animation,
as it were (though not in edit mode). Maybe that will help

Lucy

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