Power Plays Vol1

© Howard Davies 2008

That’s PowerPoint?

Stackable art done

entirely in PowerPoint

using 3D Styles

© Howard Davies 2008

by Howard Davies

PowerPlays

Become a PowerPlayer (playing around in PowerPoint)

VOLUME 1:Picture Fills

© Howard Davies 2008

This is a picture fill ina rectanglewith 3D Styleapplied

Become a PowerPlayer (playing around in PowerPoint)

by Howard Davies

PowerPlays

© Howard Davies 2008

Fun With Fills

Fill Color > Fill Effects > Picture Tab > Select Picture > (Navigate to image file) > Insert > OK(Note the option buttons – to lock aspect ratio of image and to make it turn with the object)

Picture Fills add fun(ctionality)…for instance, you can’t add 3D Styles to Images – but you CAN to Filled AutoShapes. So this is simply a Rectangle with a Picture Fill, then I’ve added a 3D Style to it with Perspective turned on

AutoShapes with Picture Fills and 3D and Shadow styles

© Howard Davies 2008

Rounded Corner Boxes

Fill Color > Fill Effects > Picture Tab > Select Picture > (Navigate to image file) > Insert > OK

Note the option buttons – to lock aspect ratio of image and to make it turn with the object)

Rounded corner boxes seem to be all the rage in design these days – and people think you have to go into Photoshop to make them, saving out as PNG – but you don’t - use filled AutoShapes instead!

© Howard Davies 2008

Fun With Fills

The same AutoShape with Picture Fill using 3D Style in Perspective, tilted right using 3D settings