Powerpoint Tips and Tricks

[Deathmania]

Now I know that everyone hates power-point but most of the people who do so, have just scratched its surface.
So lets get started:

1. Realistic shadows
- I am not an expert at Photoshop but as far as I know getting a realistic shadow is harder than couple of clicks.

Step 1: Find a render (credits to jake30502 for the render)


Step 2: Go to Shape Effects and then Shadows: (I apolagize for the images being stretched, tinypic keeps screwing them up)


Step 3: Go to Perspective Shadow and select the angle you need. The result should something like this:

Of course if you are not satisfied with the angle, distance, color or blur of the shadow you can change it in the shadow options which is located right under the perspective shadows.

That's it for today, I will be posting more in the coming days.

[Deividas]

Thats pretty neat...but honestly i dont think anyone uses PowerPoint to create a video game cover on this site except you....I could be wrong but I highly doubt it.

[Deathmania]

Thats pretty neat...but honestly i dont think anyone uses PowerPoint to create a video game cover on this site except you....I could be wrong but I highly doubt it.

I know but this is just for new comers who use programs like paint and complain about Photoshop being advanced, because powerpoint is as easy to use as paint and as hard to master as photoshop.

[Deividas]

I know but this is just for new comers who use programs like paint and complain about Photoshop being advanced, because powerpoint is as easy to use as paint and as hard to master as photoshop.

Interesting. But why would you want to master PowerPoint when even if you do, you will never be able to get results as good as what Photoshop or Gimp can...And if someone is going to take all that time and effort to learn a program that is not designed for work like this, why dont they just take all that time and learn photoshop?

Its like if someone wants to be a Car mechanic for a high end cars, lets say a Dodge Viper, and they decide to work on Go Karts because a regular car is too hard....thats still not going to help you get better at repairing Viper Engines. You might be able to repair Go Karts and such but it wont help you with a Viper. You know what I mean? So yea you might be able to make a box art in PowerPoint, but your just limiting yourself to a certain level of a boxart.

I was terrible at PS when I first started this. I have had made like 20 boxes a week that I never posted at first because I just wanted to get better. I do think it is cool that you can make boxes in PowerPoint but I just dont see the point in the long run...Anyone who will ever want to do anything with Graphic Design or anything of that sorts...is going to need to learn Photoshop as some point. The sooner you start the better.

And im not saying you should stop this or anything, you can do whatever you want to just adding my 2 cents.

[stevencho]

I'd highly recommend that everybody should start using a program like GIMP or Photoshop as soon as possible. Yes you may suck at first, but if you study tutorials and practice, I promise you will get a basic handle on it within a couple weeks.

[Deathmania]

You see I use Photoshop for the special effects and PowerPoint for the basic arrangement because I find the layering in Photoshop hard especially because if you want a rendered image you will have to save to your computer first. The only reason I am made thread is to show some things PowerPoint can get done quicker than Photoshop. But as I already mentioned I do use Photoshop for my boxes and I am slowly getting the hang of the special effects, after that I will start to learn layering.

[Crotale]

You see I use Photoshop for the special effects and PowerPoint for the basic arrangement because I find the layering in Photoshop hard especially because if you want a rendered image you will have to save to your computer first. The only reason I am made thread is to show some things PowerPoint can get done quicker than Photoshop. But as I already mentioned I do use Photoshop for my boxes and I am slowly getting the hang of the special effects, after that I will start to learn layering.

Layers are so simple and yet so powerful.

Try these tutorials: http://www.pixel2life.com/search/pho...ytime_IN_live/

[YoshiStar]

It's really easy to get a rendered image to Photoshop easily using Chrome. Since the download bar is right there on the bottom, once it's done download you can simply drag and drop it into Photoshop.

[stevencho]

I can copy paste images right into gimp without having to save them. :/

[YoshiStar]

Yeah, that's possible on almost every program lol. I think he meant images with transparency.

[stevencho]

Yeah, that's possible on almost every program lol. I think he meant images with transparency.

I can do that too. Just right click on a .png, click copy image, go into Gimp and press ctrl+V. And it comes up with transparency and everything.