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Tutorial on Fading a picture to translucent
Scenario #1: You wanted to fade in a picture, but not completely. You wanted the picture to fade from 0% until 50% and stops at there.
Solution to fading a picture to translucent (Entrance)
The solution to fading in from 0% to 50% is simple, but depending on what are you fading. As far as I know, the Emphasis (Transparency) animation will never work because it makes an object translucent/transparent immediately. Even if you combine it with Entrance (Fade) or Exit (Fade) animations, the effect will not work effectively. Do take note that this tutorial does not apply to animating the text.
For AutoShapes:
- Right click on the AutoShape you want to fade in.
- Click on Format AutoShape to bring up the AutoShape’s properties.
- Under the Fill section, adjust the Transparency setting to Transparency: “50%” or any other values depending on how translucent you want the AutoShape to be during the fade in.
- Click OK.
- Right click on the AutoShape and click on Custom Animation.
- Click Add Effect > Entrance > Fade. Adjust the Start and Speed of your choice.
For Pictures:
- There are two ways that you can go about it.
1) Using a graphics editing program such as Adobe Photoshop. Or
2) Making use of PowerPoint Picture Tool.
For this one, I will go through the Picture Tool method. Note that this method is not the best solution and may not work on all pictures.
- Insert the picture.
- Click on the picture to bring out the Picture Tool. If the Picture Tool doesn’t come out, click on View > Toolbars > Picture.
- Adjust the Color setting, which is the second icon in the Picture Tool. Set it to Washout.
*Alternately, you can double click on the picture to bring up the Format Picture menu, under Picture tab, set the brightness to 90% and contrast to 10%.
- Right click on the picture and click on Custom Animation.
- Click Add Effect > Entrance > Fade. Adjust the Start and Speed of your choice.
Scenario #2: You wanted to fade out a picture, but not completely. You wanted the picture to fade from 100% until 50% and stops at there.
Solution to fading a picture to translucent (Exit)
The solution for this one is slightly harder as compared to the first one. But this method works perfectly for AutoShapes, pictures and text.
For AutoShapes:
- After making an AutoShape, right click to copy and paste a duplicate AutoShape.
- Now, there will be two similar AutoShapes, where one will be stacking on the other.
- Right click on the AutoShape that is on top and click Custom Animation.
- Click Add Effect > Exit > Fade. Adjust the Start and Speed of your choice. By doing so, you will see the original image when the duplicate image fades out.
- Now, right click on the AutoShape that is on the bottom (the one being stacked, which is also the original image) and click Format AutoShape.
- Under the Fill section, adjust the Transparency setting to Transparency: “50%” or any other values depending on how translucent you want the AutoShape to be after the fade out.
- Adjust the AutoShapes so that they will place on top of one another perfectly.
For Pictures and text:
- After insert the picture or adding the text, right click to copy and paste a duplicate of it.
- Now, there will be two similar pictures/text, where one will be stacking on the other.
- Right click on the picture/text that is on the bottom (the one being stacked, which is also the original image/text) and click Custom Animation.
- Click Add Effect > Emphasis > Transparency.
- Modify the Start: “On Click” to “After Previous”, so that the bottom picture/text will become translucent right at the start of the presentation.
- Adjust the Amount: “50%” to any other values depending on how translucent you want the picture/text to be after the fade out.
- Next, right click on the picture/text that is on top and click Custom Animation.
- Click Add Effect > Exit > Fade. Adjust the Start and Speed of your choice. By doing so, you will see the original image/text when the duplicate image/text fades out.
- Adjust the pictures/text so that they will place on top of one another perfectly.
Where to apply this:
- When you want to fade out a list of bulleted points one by one after you have presented the points.
- When you want to show a series of pictures, while presenting on them one by one.
Download: Fade to Translucent
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