Video Tip: Tired of digging around your hard drive to show off your photographs? Need a more organized and visually attractive way to keep them. This video will show you how to use Microsoft PowerPoint as a digital photo album!
Have you ever wanted to blur the background of a photo but you don’t want to use Photoshop? In the video below we show you just how to do this. We’ve also provided a step by step process below. This is an awesome photo technique in PowerPoint. It’s a technique that many designers have been doing in Photoshop. If you don’t have Adobe Photoshop you can still apply this effect. You do need to have Office 2010 (or 2011 for the Mac).
To begin you will need to choose a photograph, the best option is one that has people or an object as the main photo but has a distracting background that you would like to blur out, one that has a depth of field is ideal. For this technique you will use these functions in PowerPoint, Copy and Paste or the Duplicate Command, Background Removal and Artistic Effects.
Step by Step:
1.) Choose your photo. Again one with depth of field is ideal.
2.) Duplicate your image, you can select your image and copy and paste using the Ctrl-C (Copy) and Ctrl-V (Paste) keyboard shortcuts.
3.) Next align your two images. Click your Format Tab, select the Align option, then Align Left and Align Top.
4.) Select your foreground image. The best way to confirm you are selecting the correct images is to click on Select on your ribbon bar and choose Selection Payne. You will now see everything listed on this particular slide. You can rename the selections foreground and background. Select your foreground image, on the format tab select Remove Background option and the select Keep Changes.
5.) Select the background image, Select Artistic Effects and choose Blur.
Product(s): Microsoft PowerPoint 2010
Audience(s): Business Professional
Duration: 60 Minutes
Start Date: June 29th, 2011
Start Time: 3:00 PM EDT (US)
Event Overview: With Office 2010, PowerPoint has a great and extensive set of new features. PowerPoint 2010 has new design themes, improved transitions and animations as well as new methods of output for your presentation. On top of that, PowerPoint 2010 boasts all the new features common to all the Microsoft Office applications like the backstage view and customizable ribbon. With all the new features, it just got a lot easier to create a captivating and informative presentation. After all, isn’t that the goal.
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Have you ever gotten lost in your own presentation?
PowerPoint 2010 has a new Sections feature that helps organize slides, similar to how folders organize the files you use. By using sections you can keep your slides in logical groups. Furthermore, the function makes a useful outlining tool at the point of creating your presentation.
To add a section go to the ribbon and click “Add Section”. Once the section is created right click on section label and select “Rename Section”.
Once your sections are created you can expand and collapse them as needed, apply themes to a section, print a section and drag and drop sections to change the order of your presentation.
Product(s): Microsoft PowerPoint 2010
Audience(s): Business Professional.
Duration: 60 Minutes
Start Date: April 26, 2011 1:00 PM EDT (US)
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Event Overview:
You’ve been asked to put together a presentation using PowerPoint, and you have no idea how to begin. Get equipped with the skills to do the job. We’re not talking fancy; the goal is to prepare you with the basics, how to put content on slides and get ready to present a show. The bells and whistles can come later.
• Interface Tour
• Create & Edit Slides
• Add Pictures from Computer
• Add ClipArt
• Animations & Transitions
• Run a SlideShow
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Join us for this brief tutorial and learn how using PowerPoint’s design themes can save you time and create eye-catching slide presentations! Themes offer consistency and they are easy to use. Let us show you how.
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Making Headlines with PowerPoint: A Beginners Guide to Learning the Power of Visual Presentations using Microsoft PowerPoint 2007
Date(s): Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Time: 11:00AM (EST) U.S.
Duration: 60 minutes 
Description: You’ve been asked to put together a presentation using PowerPoint, and you have no idea how to begin. Get equipped with the skills to do the job. We’re not talking fancy; the goal is to prepare you with the basics, how to put content on slides and get ready to present a show. The bells and whistles can come later.
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Upgrade Your Presentation Using Graphic Tools in PowerPoint 2007
In this informative tutorial you will learn how to add attractive forming to text, shapes and images in PowerPoint 2007. Log On To Learn addresses the contextual tab for formatting. This is the first of many short tutorial clips brought to you by Log On To Learn, powered by KnowledgeWave.
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Product(s): Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007
Audience(s): Business Professional.
Duration: 60 Minutes
Start Date: Thursday, March 12, 1:00PM EST
Event Overview:
Once you’ve created your presentation, it’s time to make it move. In this session we show users how to bring life to their PowerPoint presentations with eye-catching transitions that take you from slide to slide and a variety of animations which can be applied to text and graphic elements within slides. PowerPoint has helpful, simple ways of adding animations and transitions and we cover these as well as more advanced techniques to add custom animations and vary the order of animations for each slide.
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Product(s): Microsoft Office PowerPoint.
Audience(s): Business Professional.
Duration: 60 Minutes
Start Date: Tuesday September 16th 10:00 AM Eastern Time
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Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 enables users to quickly create high-impact, dynamic presentations, while integrating workflow and ways to easily share information. From the redesigned user interface to the new graphics and formatting capabilities, PowerPoint 2007 puts the control in your hands, so you can produce great-looking presentations. Register for this informative webinar and learn the top 10 ways you can put PowerPoint 2007 to work for you.
