- [Jess] My name is Jess Stratton,
and welcome to PowerPoint Tips Weekly.
This week, we're going to have a lot of fun
and make this cool 3D effect
just using native tools in PowerPoint.
I'm going to hit the Escape key to get out of my slideshow,
and it's going to bring me back to this slide.
So as you can see, this really is just a slide.
Let's start by creating a new blank slide.
I'm going to insert my photo.
So I'll say Insert, Pictures.
And now I'll browse my file system to find it.
This is the one I used.
I'll close out of the Design Ideas pane,
and I'll start by making mine much smaller.
Now, to do this trick, you need two copies of the photo.
So I'll start by hitting Control
or Command + C on my keyboard
and then Control or Command + V,
depending on whether you're using a Mac or Windows PC.
And I'll get this one out of the way.
We're not quite ready for it yet,
so I'll just leave it over there.
This version of the picture is going to be used
as the base photo that the bride and the groom are going
to appear to be jumping out of.
So I'll start by cropping it.
On the Picture Tools Format tab, I'll click Crop.
And now I'll drag my picture down.
It can be as far down as you want to go.
It's completely up to you
what you want the final effect to look like.
I'll make mine go a bit lower, and I'll click Crop again.
From here, still in the Format tab
with the picture still selected,
you can choose from these picture styles.
And you can click on the arrow to get some more options,
but we want this to look like a photo.
The very first option is a great one.
It's just a simple frame with a white border.
But you can put a shadow on it
to really sell the idea that it's a photo.
It's up to you.
I'll choose this frame.
Now, if you'll notice, I'm going to go back up
to this slide here at the top.
This is a forced perspective photo.
We need to get that perspective to make it 3D.
And you'll notice that it's angled a bit on the inside.
We do this by making this picture a shape.
We can crop it to a shape
and really get that 3D shape to it.
So with the photo selected, I'll go back to the Format tab.
Instead of clicking Crop, I'm going to click the down arrow
and choose Crop to Shape.
Now, if you look at all these shapes,
there are some really good perspective ones in here.
The trapezoid is the perfect one.
Again, to really sell it as a photo,
you can bring it in just a little bit more.
It's up to you.
It's your image.
So now we have the bottom part of our picture.
This is what the bride and groom is going
to appear to be popping out of.
It's time to bring our second picture into the works.
If you'll notice in this top picture,
the background is set to a gradient,
and they're completely transparent against that background.
So let's start by setting our background picture
to a gradient.
I'll change to the Design tab.
Click Format Background.
And I'll choose Gradient Fill.
I'm just going to keep the defaults.
I like the gray.
So I'll close out of this pane.
And now let's make this picture transparent.
This is a native tool
in PowerPoint called Remove Background.
And with any photo selected,
you can change to the Picture Tools Format tab,
and all the way to the left,
you can click Remove Background.
The first time you click on it,
it's going to decide what it thinks you want to keep
and what it thinks you want removed.
In this case, it's gotten it completely wrong,
but that's okay.
We can manually override these choices.
I'm going to select Mark Areas to Keep.
This part can be a bit tricky,
depending on how complex your photo is,
but it's just a matter of drawing lines down your photo
and telling PowerPoint what you want to remain in the photo.
It's got most of the groom.
Let's get the bride in there now.
So now I'm just going to keep clicking and dragging
until everything that I want to remain
in the photo is there.
Well, it's exposed a lot,
but now there's some things I need to get rid of,
so now I'll choose Mark Areas to Remove.
I'll do the same thing for the areas that I don't want.
And now finally I'll get rid of these bits
in between the bride and groom
so that they look completely 3D and transparent.
I'm just going to do the best that I can here for time.
And one more.
And this should do it.
All right, that looks great, so I'll click Keep Changes.
The last step is to bring this photo on top of this one
in a seamless fashion.
Now, remember, we cut this photo off,
so I want to cut this photo off where the other one ended.
So now I'll select Crop and bring this one up.
And this is just a matter of doing the best that you can.
I think that looks good.
Maybe down a little bit more.
And I'll choose Crop.
Now I'm going to try to line them up.
And the nice thing about PowerPoint and images is
that you can use the arrow keys on your keyboard
to nudge it into place.
That is not too bad at all.
If I want to make this bigger or move it around,
I need to make sure these two objects move together,
so I'll select one object, hold the Shift key down,
select another one, right-click anywhere,
hover my mouse over Group, and then choose Group again.
Now this is one object, so I can resize it,
move it around on my slide, center it,
do anything I want to.
This is a great 3D shot.
And now I could do anything fun with this.
For example, this is a great ad for a wedding photographer.
I could even insert a text box
by choosing Insert, Text Box, and putting my caption here.
I'll put my little caption in there.
Make it bold and a little bit larger.
Just something to have fun.
I'll change the font.
And there's my ad.
So this is a great way to make your images appear
to pop directly out of the slide.
My name is Jess Stratton,
and this is PowerPoint Tips Weekly.