One of the facilities in PowerPoint that is not available as standard is the ability to create transparent letters. So we had a go at building this for you.
And the results have been quite outstanding.
You can use these effects in a presentation either as divider slides or as a slide where you need to make an impact. Management Guru Tom Peters is well known for his single word slides, and this takes this technique a step further.
While most of you who are familiar with Photoshop would be able to do this very comfortably what we have been able to do is to make a selection of vector letter blocks in PowerPoint that you can just move around.
You just then need to add in an image behind and block off the areas where the image is not covered.
The effect works best on images that do not vary too much in colour.
You could even use these letters to make your own PowerPoint templates. Here is an example of the front page of a wedding album that we have made.
Click to download Transparent Letters in Powerpoint (PPT format)
Related Posts
- PowerPoint designs and Keynote themes
- Free PowerPoint Photo Frames
- Free powerpoint maps – uk and europe
4 September 2007
Filed under PowerPoint, Template Articles, Templates Theme Single (new)
Comments on: Transparent Letters for PowerPoint
Really nice effects that you have created. Thanks!!!
Posted by AmyP — 5 September 2007 @ 3:46 pm
Thats a good idea, never thought of doing it that way before.
Can I do this with the text in powerpoint itself?
Posted by Peter Hume — 5 September 2007 @ 4:26 pm
Hi Pete.
This effect is not possible with the fonts in powerpoint, we made these letters in illustrator then imported them into powerpoint, then converted them to vectors, in order to make these shapes.
Posted by jonathanball — 6 September 2007 @ 2:09 pm
just love your stuff! Thanks lots
Posted by Bec Brooke — 13 December 2007 @ 1:26 am
Hi can you help with a map on asia pacific in watermark format. Thanks a million if you could help.
Posted by Lim BH — 25 February 2008 @ 7:37 am
i love you
Posted by erin — 6 March 2008 @ 6:40 pm
very helpful!!
Posted by allen — 8 March 2008 @ 10:57 am
how do i get this stuff?
Posted by Anonymous — 4 July 2008 @ 8:09 pm
This is really nice and helpful. I highly impressed. Thank you so much
Posted by Nayana — 13 September 2008 @ 11:54 am
i want free elctronices basis themes.
Posted by pritom dhar — 23 October 2008 @ 6:40 am
how can I get power point from internet to my computer because my mum delete it from my computer,Please help me I am from serbia and i have to make some presentation for geography emergency una!!!!!!
Posted by una mesic — 31 October 2008 @ 3:33 pm
Waah, It’s really creative.Thank you so much
Posted by Cara — 11 December 2008 @ 3:12 pm
this is so AWESOME!
thank you sooo much!
keep up the good work!
Posted by josy — 11 June 2009 @ 8:55 am
Really awesome…
Posted by Hanny — 18 July 2009 @ 11:37 am
there’a a much simpler way of doing this You have to go to FORMAT then click BACGROUND you choose your owwn picture. after that you go to INSERT- PICTURE- WORD ART then FORMAT- WORD ART- BACKGROUND. and see what happens!
Posted by mauricio — 21 July 2009 @ 4:19 am
GREAT job!!
Any numbers and non-alphanumeric characters planned?
Posted by Chris — 18 October 2009 @ 11:06 pm
Post a comment