pasting images /graphics

[Guest]

If I create an image with Paint or various other programmesI cannot then copy and paste it as I want into Ppt.When I try to do this ,even if i use a freehand selection tool, the image takes with it a background .This means that if I want my image to be animated the new image background obscures the original background as it passes so the illusion is lost completely-all I'm getting is a rectangular shape with my desired image passing over the original background.
Please can anybody help.
Further to this can I insert video clips into a ppt presentation?

Thanks a lot.

 

[Guest]

I think you're asking how to create transparent images to PPT. For that, see http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com/powerpointgraphics.htm and http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com/powerpointtransparency.htm

Don't copy/paste your images into PPT. Use the techniques in the aforementioned tutorials instead.

Further to this can I insert video clips into a ppt presentation?

Yes. Insert/Movies and Sound/Movie from File.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com
presenter, PPT Live '04
Oct 10-13, San Diego http://www.powerpointlive.com

 

[Guest]

thanks echo s-this is helpful and I've tried it -some valuable information there.
However,
I 'mm still having problems with some images .Itried out the advice on the transparecy tool and it worked perectlly with non-Paint images but some don't go transpaent when I use the ppt tool but the background or a few specks of my image do.
By the way, I do appreciate your help!

I think you're asking how to create transparent images to PPT. For that, see http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com/powerpointgraphics.htm and http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com/powerpointtransparency.htm

Don't copy/paste your images into PPT. Use the techniques in the aforementioned tutorials instead.

Further to this can I insert video clips into a ppt presentation?

Yes. Insert/Movies and Sound/Movie from File.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com
presenter, PPT Live '04
Oct 10-13, San Diego http://www.powerpointlive.com

If I create an image with Paint or various other programmesI cannot then copy and paste it as I want into Ppt.When I try to do this ,even if i use a freehand selection tool, the image takes with it a background .This means that if I want my image to be animated the new image background obscures the original background as it passes so the illusion is lost completely-all I'm getting is a rectangular shape with my desired image passing over the original background.
Please can anybody help.
Further to this can I insert video clips into a ppt presentation?

Thanks a lot.

 

[Guest]

You might see that kind of effect if the background color you're trying to make transparent isn't really all one color.

What I mean is that what looks like a white background area to us may actually be made up of a bunch of pixels which are *close* to white but which aren't really white. So, as a crude example, while you might have some pixels which are colored 255, 255, 255 (pure white), others may be 255, 255, 254 with still others at 255, 254, 255.

Even that one pixel color difference will cause PPT's transparency to not work as you expect, because it will only make transparent *one* color -- one *exact* color -- in the image.

So you'll need to either make that background color one "flat" color in an image editor then use PPT's transparency tool, or you need to use the transparency technique described in the link from before.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com
presenter, PPT Live '04
Oct 10-13, San Diego http://www.powerpointlive.com

thanks echo s-this is helpful and I've tried it -some valuable information there.
However,
I 'mm still having problems with some images .Itried out the advice on the transparecy tool and it worked perectlly with non-Paint images but some don't go transpaent when I use the ppt tool but the background or a few specks of my image do.
By the way, I do appreciate your help!

I think you're asking how to create transparent images to PPT. For that, see http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com/powerpointgraphics.htm and http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com/powerpointtransparency.htm

Don't copy/paste your images into PPT. Use the techniques in the aforementioned tutorials instead.

Further to this can I insert video clips into a ppt presentation?

Yes. Insert/Movies and Sound/Movie from File.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com
presenter, PPT Live '04
Oct 10-13, San Diego http://www.powerpointlive.com

If I create an image with Paint or various other programmesI cannot then copy and paste it as I want into Ppt.When I try to do this ,even if i use a freehand selection tool, the image takes with it a background .This means that if I want my image to be animated the new image background obscures the original background as it passes so the illusion is lost completely-all I'm getting is a rectangular shape with my desired image passing over the original background.
Please can anybody help.
Further to this can I insert video clips into a ppt presentation?

Thanks a lot.

 

[Guest]

thank you.well done!

You might see that kind of effect if the background color you're trying to make transparent isn't really all one color.

What I mean is that what looks like a white background area to us may actually be made up of a bunch of pixels which are *close* to white but which aren't really white. So, as a crude example, while you might have some pixels which are colored 255, 255, 255 (pure white), others may be 255, 255, 254 with still others at 255, 254, 255.

Even that one pixel color difference will cause PPT's transparency to not work as you expect, because it will only make transparent *one* color -- one *exact* color -- in the image.

So you'll need to either make that background color one "flat" color in an image editor then use PPT's transparency tool, or you need to use the transparency technique described in the link from before.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com
presenter, PPT Live '04
Oct 10-13, San Diego http://www.powerpointlive.com

thanks echo s-this is helpful and I've tried it -some valuable information there.
However,
I 'mm still having problems with some images .Itried out the advice on the transparecy tool and it worked perectlly with non-Paint images but some don't go transpaent when I use the ppt tool but the background or a few specks of my image do.
By the way, I do appreciate your help!

I think you're asking how to create transparent images to PPT. For that, see http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com/powerpointgraphics.htm and http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com/powerpointtransparency.htm

Don't copy/paste your images into PPT. Use the techniques in the aforementioned tutorials instead.

Further to this can I insert video clips into a ppt presentation?

Yes. Insert/Movies and Sound/Movie from File.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com
presenter, PPT Live '04
Oct 10-13, San Diego http://www.powerpointlive.com



:

If I create an image with Paint or various other programmesI cannot then copy and paste it as I want into Ppt.When I try to do this ,even if i use a freehand selection tool, the image takes with it a background .This means that if I want my image to be animated the new image background obscures the original background as it passes so the illusion is lost completely-all I'm getting is a rectangular shape with my desired image passing over the original background.
Please can anybody help.
Further to this can I insert video clips into a ppt presentation?

Thanks a lot.

 

[GregB]

I have a similar problem described here. But I'm not trying to do anything
fancy with images. For example, here's what I do,

1. Press the PRTSCRN button,
2. Open MS Paint,
3. Past image into MS Paint use CRTL-V
4. Use the select tool in MS Paint to select a part of the image, then
press CTRL-C
5. Open PowerPoint (Office 12/2007), then press CTRL-V.

People without Office 12 see only a blue image. Nothing else.

Help!

thank you.well done!

You might see that kind of effect if the background color you're trying to make transparent isn't really all one color.

What I mean is that what looks like a white background area to us may actually be made up of a bunch of pixels which are *close* to white but which aren't really white. So, as a crude example, while you might have some pixels which are colored 255, 255, 255 (pure white), others may be 255, 255, 254 with still others at 255, 254, 255.

Even that one pixel color difference will cause PPT's transparency to not work as you expect, because it will only make transparent *one* color -- one *exact* color -- in the image.

So you'll need to either make that background color one "flat" color in an image editor then use PPT's transparency tool, or you need to use the transparency technique described in the link from before.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com
presenter, PPT Live '04
Oct 10-13, San Diego http://www.powerpointlive.com

thanks echo s-this is helpful and I've tried it -some valuable information there.
However,
I 'mm still having problems with some images .Itried out the advice on the transparecy tool and it worked perectlly with non-Paint images but some don't go transpaent when I use the ppt tool but the background or a few specks of my image do.
By the way, I do appreciate your help!

:

I think you're asking how to create transparent images to PPT. For that, see http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com/powerpointgraphics.htm and http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com/powerpointtransparency.htm

Don't copy/paste your images into PPT. Use the techniques in the aforementioned tutorials instead.

Further to this can I insert video clips into a ppt presentation?

Yes. Insert/Movies and Sound/Movie from File.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com
presenter, PPT Live '04
Oct 10-13, San Diego http://www.powerpointlive.com



:

If I create an image with Paint or various other programmesI cannot then copy and paste it as I want into Ppt.When I try to do this ,even if i use a freehand selection tool, the image takes with it a background .This means that if I want my image to be animated the new image background obscures the original background as it passes so the illusion is lost completely-all I'm getting is a rectangular shape with my desired image passing over the original background.
Please can anybody help.
Further to this can I insert video clips into a ppt presentation?

Thanks a lot.

 

[Bill Dilworth]

Try this ...

After step 4

5) Open a new image in MS Paint (don't save old one)
6) Paste the partial image previously selected in step 4 (Ctl-V again)
7) Save the image as a file on your desktop
8) In PowerPoint, insert the image file

Bill Dilworth

I have a similar problem described here. But I'm not trying to do anything
fancy with images. For example, here's what I do,

1. Press the PRTSCRN button,
2. Open MS Paint,
3. Past image into MS Paint use CRTL-V
4. Use the select tool in MS Paint to select a part of the image, then
press CTRL-C
5. Open PowerPoint (Office 12/2007), then press CTRL-V.

People without Office 12 see only a blue image. Nothing else.

Help!

thank you.well done!

You might see that kind of effect if the background color you're trying
to make transparent isn't really all one color.

What I mean is that what looks like a white background area to us may
actually be made up of a bunch of pixels which are *close* to white but
which aren't really white. So, as a crude example, while you might have
some pixels which are colored 255, 255, 255 (pure white), others may be
255, 255, 254 with still others at 255, 254, 255.

Even that one pixel color difference will cause PPT's transparency to
not work as you expect, because it will only make transparent *one*
color -- one *exact* color -- in the image.

So you'll need to either make that background color one "flat" color in
an image editor then use PPT's transparency tool, or you need to use
the transparency technique described in the link from before.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com
presenter, PPT Live '04
Oct 10-13, San Diego http://www.powerpointlive.com



:

thanks echo s-this is helpful and I've tried it -some valuable
information there.
However,
I 'mm still having problems with some images .Itried out the advice
on the transparecy tool and it worked perectlly with non-Paint images
but some don't go transpaent when I use the ppt tool but the
background or a few specks of my image do.
By the way, I do appreciate your help!

:

I think you're asking how to create transparent images to PPT. For
that, see
http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com/powerpointgraphics.htm and
http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com/powerpointtransparency.htm

Don't copy/paste your images into PPT. Use the techniques in the
aforementioned tutorials instead.

Further to this can I insert video clips into a ppt presentation?

Yes. Insert/Movies and Sound/Movie from File.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com
presenter, PPT Live '04
Oct 10-13, San Diego http://www.powerpointlive.com



:

If I create an image with Paint or various other programmesI
cannot then copy and paste it as I want into Ppt.When I try to do
this ,even if i use a freehand selection tool, the image takes
with it a background .This means that if I want my image to be
animated the new image background obscures the original
background as it passes so the illusion is lost completely-all
I'm getting is a rectangular shape with my desired image passing
over the original background.
Please can anybody help.
Further to this can I insert video clips into a ppt presentation?

Thanks a lot.

 

[GregB]

I'll give it a try.

 

[GregB]

Thanks! Can you tell me how to change the shadow options to remove shadows?
That way, when I save in compatibility mode, I won't have to worry about the
reader's ppt settings?