Using Layers to Create Slide Transitions
10 posts
• Page 1 of 1
- DickK
- ProShow Hall of Fame
-
- Posts: 3143
- Joined: Mon Nov 13, 2006 7:42 pm
- Location: Northern Virginia
Using Layers to Create Slide Transitions
Okay, this stuff may be obvious to everyone else but it took me a while to realize that I could create my own types of transitions between two slides.
The trick is to simply insert a slide between them that has contains both of them as layers. Turn off the ProShow transitions entirely and create the transition effect you want with pan or zoom, color effects, whatever your imagination can come up with. It's easy, effective and can add great impact -- of course, like everything just don't overdo it. I created an example using an effect I made for a slide show I'm working on and posted it to the PhotoDex site. I hope it will inspire a few other creative ways to use the tools we've got!
http://www.photodex.com/sharing/viewsho ... 9646&alb=0
Dick
The trick is to simply insert a slide between them that has contains both of them as layers. Turn off the ProShow transitions entirely and create the transition effect you want with pan or zoom, color effects, whatever your imagination can come up with. It's easy, effective and can add great impact -- of course, like everything just don't overdo it. I created an example using an effect I made for a slide show I'm working on and posted it to the PhotoDex site. I hope it will inspire a few other creative ways to use the tools we've got!
http://www.photodex.com/sharing/viewsho ... 9646&alb=0
Dick
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." Aristotle ((PSG, PSE & Fuji HS20 user)) Presentation Impact Blog
- DickK
- ProShow Hall of Fame
-
- Posts: 3143
- Joined: Mon Nov 13, 2006 7:42 pm
- Location: Northern Virginia
Hmmm.... wasn't obvious to everyone after all
Thanks for the feedback.
Some quite strange combinations are easily created with mixed motion types and having both slides rotate. I'm sure there would be a use for a few of them but a couple just made me cross eyed.
Dick
![Wink ;)](./images/smilies/icon_wink.gif)
Some quite strange combinations are easily created with mixed motion types and having both slides rotate. I'm sure there would be a use for a few of them but a couple just made me cross eyed.
Dick
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." Aristotle ((PSG, PSE & Fuji HS20 user)) Presentation Impact Blog
- DickK
- ProShow Hall of Fame
-
- Posts: 3143
- Joined: Mon Nov 13, 2006 7:42 pm
- Location: Northern Virginia
Maybe I'm dense but can you explain how what you want is different from the curtain opening?
That's all I used in the opening to the demo by the way. Just a slide with caption that splits.
Dick
That's all I used in the opening to the demo by the way. Just a slide with caption that splits.
Dick
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." Aristotle ((PSG, PSE & Fuji HS20 user)) Presentation Impact Blog
Re: Using Layers to Create Slide Transitions
Dick, I have done a few shows and all have been straight forward. Now I,m trying to have a slide transition from b&w to color. The b&w fading out or going small, then the color fading in or going large. I thought this tutorial would work. However I'm getting confused with the terminology "slides" and "layers".
Is all the transition in your example being accomplished in one frame having two layers? If so I looked at that and get confused with "copy slide 2". Is that "copy layer 2"? Copy to where? I cant even find the copy command in the layers and motion sections.
Can you give me a few hints?
Thanks Joe S
Is all the transition in your example being accomplished in one frame having two layers? If so I looked at that and get confused with "copy slide 2". Is that "copy layer 2"? Copy to where? I cant even find the copy command in the layers and motion sections.
Can you give me a few hints?
Thanks Joe S
- DickK
- ProShow Hall of Fame
-
- Posts: 3143
- Joined: Mon Nov 13, 2006 7:42 pm
- Location: Northern Virginia
Re: Using Layers to Create Slide Transitions
"Slide" just means what ProShow uses the term for -- a block on the Slide List which can have one or many images (in layers) as well as the option for a sound file. So copying a slide is just copying and pasting it on the slide list with the Edit menu or right click copy/paste.
Dick
Dick
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." Aristotle ((PSG, PSE & Fuji HS20 user)) Presentation Impact Blog
10 posts
• Page 1 of 1
Who is online
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 16 guests