Cropping and Soft Edges for Composition Effects

PowerPoint tutorial using cropping, shape fills and soft edges to create a faded masking effect. Masking isn't an official feature in PowerPoint 2007, but you can fill shapes with images to achieve similar effects.

• April 13, 2010
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Using Shape Fills to Remove Backgrounds

Using PowerPoint 2007's shape fills, you can draw custom shapes around objects to use as masks. Well, PowerPoint doesn't have a masking feature, but the effect is basically the same as masking since you're using a shape to reveal specific areas of an image. Great effect and just one more way to remove backgrounds from images using PowerPoint

• April 9, 2010
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Masking Effects in PowerPoint

This screencast was inspired by an image of a man's arm coming out of a computer. I saw the effect on Tom's blog and knew it was possible with Photoshop - masking, clipping paths, selections - but not sure how it would work in PowerPoint. So that was my challenge! I think it turned out pretty well...don't you?

• April 7, 2010
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