How can you start your PowerPoint presentation with something that captures attention and want people to learn more? Check out this tutorial to find out.
When designing PowerPoint presentations for business audience, it’s important to strike the right balance between content, quality and delivery the right message. You want your slides to be eye-catching and engaging to your audience, while still retaining a professional tone. This may seem like a steep challenge, but we focus on how you can solve it in this tutorial: using the step by step tutorial video, you can easily create a PowerPoint presentation that captivates your audience, doesn’t detract from your message and keeps them fascinated and asking for more.
Follow step by step instructions to learn how it was accomplished and you can also download final PowerPoint template, if you are just trying to reuse it for your upcoming presentation.
Final Cover Slide starts with black and white background animation of NY City and consists of 3 animations
- Flying large parallelogram object with text
- Smaller parallelogram with text entering the screen
- Black and White background converts into Color background
Step 1. Launch PowerPoint and select Blank Presentation
On Start Screen select Blank Presentation.
Step 2. Select and delete all extra elements on the screen
Delete all extra elements, we will not be using
Click Insert Tab and select Insert Pictures
Step 3: Insert Picture of NY City
Switch to Insert tab and Click Insert->Images->Pictures
NY City WallPaper Picture can be downloaded by using the link below
http://wallarthd.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/New-York-City-Wallpaper-High-Definition.jpg
Step 4. Create a duplicate of the picture
Select picture and then click Copy and then Paste. This creates a duplicate of the picture.
Step 5. Make top picture Black and White
With Top level Picture selected, navigate to Picture Tools and select Color-> Color Saturation: 0%
– Make sure second picture is selected
– Select Picture tools
– Select Color
– Select Black and White
– Realign second picture to make sure it is on top of the first one
Step 6. Apply Animation to top BW picture to Fade, making color picture available
Navigate to Animations and Select Exit->Fade Animation
- Keeping second picture selected, Click on Animations Tab in PowerPoint
- Add a new Fade Animation Effect – Make sure to select Fade on Exit as there are two Fade effects available
- Extend duration of default Fade effect to make sure you can see gradual fading of Black and White picture
Make Animation Pane Available. This allows you to select the timing for animations
Right Mouse Click on Picture’s 5 Animation and select Effect Options
Adjust timing for animation to make Duration=3 seconds
Click Preview button to review the animation of the transition from Black and White to Color page. Adjust timings for the animation as you see fit.
Step 7. Insert Parallelogram
On Insert Tab, select Insert -> Shapes->Parallelogram
- Type the desired text to the shape, by selecting the shape and start typing
- Lets make font large, if necessary for better visibility and appearance
- You can change background color of the shape to the color of your preference. Click on the Shape and Select Properties. Then pick desired color
Step 8. Add text to Parallelogam
Below image shows text “PowerPoint Cover Page Animation” added to the parallelogram
Step 9. Select Desired Color for Parallelogram
Step 10. Insert Small Parallelogram
- Now we need to insert smaller shape, which could provide ability for you to insert additional text. Select Insert -> Shape->Parallelogram.
- Type desired text
Step 11. Add text to smaller parallelogram and adjust it’s background color
- Select background color of your choice
- Keep in mind that If you have selected lighter background color as I did to add more contract, you would need to change the color of the font as well to make sure font is visible
Step 12. Add Animation Effects to the large parallelogram
- Select Large Parallelogram and Add Fly-In effect
- Click Animations Pane and add Fly In animation for the larger shape
- Change the order of the animation to make sure Parallelogram’s animations gets triggered first, before animations for the background image
- Next Lets change duration of the Parallelogram’s animation. Click [Effect Properties], Select [Timing] Tab and select [Duration] equal to 2 seconds
In Effect Options select Directions -> [From Left]
In Timing select Duration -> [2 Seconds]
Step 12. Select small parallelogram and Add Animation Effects
In this part of the tutorial we will be focusing on below activities
- Change the order for Second Parallelogram’s animation to make it executing right after the first one
- Now lets make sure it also flies-in from the left by selecting Effect Options and changing Direction to fly [From Left]
- Change Duration of the Animation to make it 2 seconds
Select Small Parallelogram
Add Fly-In effect
In Effect Options select Directions -> [From Left]
In Timing select Duration -> [2 Seconds]
Step 13. Rearrange Order of effects
Lets make sure second parallelogram’s Animation starts after the first Parallelogram’s one. We will do it by selecting smaller Parallelogram in Animation Pane and using Right Mouse Click selecting [Start After Previous] option
Step 14. Make sure First Effect starts [Start On Click] and others [Start After Previous]
Below is how Final sequence of effects looks like
Step 15. Adjust timings of animations and enjoy your animated slide
And the last step is to preview the result of our hard work. Click preview button and enjoy the show!!!
Note: We have selected 2 seconds for flying in animations, but some of you might prefer to make it shorter (i.e 1 second). Please play with timings and enjoy the slide you have just built.
Watch below Video to learn how to do make Cover Slide Animation in PowerPoint
Download Free Sample Animated PowerPoint Cover Page slide – PPTX file
Video Transcripts – downloadable PDF Files
How To Create Animated Cover Slide in PowerPoint – Video Transcript [English]
How To Create Animated Cover Slide in PowerPoint – Video Transcript [Simplified Chinese]
How To Create Animated Cover Slide in PowerPoint – Video Transcript [Hindi]
How To Create Animated Cover Slide in PowerPoint – Video Transcript [Russian]
PDF Tutorial
How to create Animated Cover Slide in PowerPoint – PDF Tutorial
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