focal point on picture

[savannahjohn]

I have a single picture of five people in my presentation. I am discussing
the experience of each person an would like to single out the face of each
person as i discuss that person. So as I discuss "x" Only her face would
remain viewable and the rest of the picture would be gone. Then as i go to
"y", only the face of "y" would show. Is this possible?

[David M. Marcovitz]

You have several options for this. You can have the whole picture on your
slide with boxes covering up the area of the picture you don't want. You
can use animation to have certain boxes enter (to cover up one face) and
other boxes leave (to reveal another face). You also could make duplicate
slides that have different parts of the picture covered up. You also could
use the cropping tool to have the picture on multiple slides cropped in
different ways.
--David

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David M. Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
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[tohlz]

So i assume you have two pictures. One picture X and another picture Y.

You can set X's custom animation,
using the Entrance effect (preferrably fade in), and set Start to "On Click".

Then on X again, set the Exit effect (preferrably fade out), and set Start
to "On Click".

On Y's custom animation,
using the Entrance effect (fade in), set Start to "With Previous", so that
when you press enter or left click, X will fade out(disappear) while Y will
fade in (appear).

[tohlz]

apology, misunderstood your question. Heres a quick example on how you do it:
http://www.kitcat-tricks.net/battle/PPTtest.ppt
Similar to what I have said above, you can make use of entrance and exit
effect, with one On Click and the other With Previous.

[Ute Simon]

In addition to what David said: You can also create a PNG-Graphic of a
rectangle in background color of your slide, with an transparent oval in it.
This can cover up the rest of the picture and leave only one face visible.
And it can be moved with animation paths to reveal the next face.

Kind regards,
Ute

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[Steve Rindsberg]

If a rectangular "window" onto the point of interest is ok, here are two
approaches. I'm sure there are more.

1) Make as many slides as there are people in the picture
2) Insert the picture on the first slide
3) Copy/paste it to the other slides
4) Use the crop tool on each picture to zero in on just the face you want

Or

1) Insert the picture
2) Draw four rectangles, two horizonatal, two vertical and arrange them to form
a single larger rectangle with a rectangular hole in the middle.
3) Select the rectangles, rightclick and choose Format, assign a fill of
Background, No Line.
4) Group the rectangles

Now you can move the "donut hole" over the picture to reveal the part you want.

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[tohlz]

Its not necessary to make a PNG graphic. I have tried it and powerpoint can
do the work. First, make a circle, rectangle or any shapes you want to use,
go to the properties and set the color to No Fill.

Next, set the weight of the Line to 1584 pt (max). This will allows the
circle to covers the whole slide. You can then adjust the size of the inner
circle(the fill-less part).

[tohlz]

I guess this is what you want. This one is done using the autoshape, you just
need to set the weight of the line to make a giant circle with a donut hole.
http://www.kitcat-tricks.net/battle/FocalPoint.ppt