Highlight individual person in picture

[Fred Smith]

I have picture which I would like to display, then about 5 seconds later,
highlight one person in the picture -- ideally by fading the background, and
focusing just on this person's head. Kind of like those high school yearbook
pictures you see on Biography where they highlight just one person in the group.

Is this possible? I'm using PowerPoint XP on Windows XP

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

Here's one way to do this:

(1) Make a copy of the picture and stack the copy right on top of the
original.
(2) Use the crop tool to crop the copy of the picture to just what you
want to highlight. The crop tool only does rectangles. If you need ovals,
you will have to insert the picture into an oval, and this will be harder
to size and line up, but it is doable.
(3) Now you can do one of several things. The easiest is probably to set
up an emphasis animation on the orginal (uncropped picture). The
transparency effect seems OK. Alternatively, just Insert>Duplicate Slide
and then use the picture tools (contrast and brightness) to fade the
uncropped picture.

--David

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David M. Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/

 

[Fred Smith]

Thanks, David. Those are just the instructions I needed.

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

I'm glad I could help. Thanks for getting back to us to let us know this
is what you needed.
--David

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David M. Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/