making photo masks

[ciozzia]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Processor: Intel when creating a shape as a silhouette for a portion of a photo I cannot position the new inserted photo in the exact position of the newly made shape? Is there a manual option to move the photo within the shape?

 

[CyberTaz]

No, PPT does not have a masking capability. The picture is displayed in a
rectangular shape by default. What you are doing changes the shape to
something other than a rectangle, it doesn't 'superimpose' the second shape
on it. For what you want to do you need an actual image editing program.

The best suggestion I can offer within PPT's range is to crop the image to
whatever portion you want to use before changing the shape.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Jim Gordon Mac MVP]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Processor: Intel
when creating a shape as a silhouette for a portion of a photo I cannot
position the new inserted photo in the exact position of the newly made
shape? Is there a manual option to move the photo within the shape?

Hi,

You can move shapes by selecting them and then pressing the arrow keys
on the keyboard. That usually gives you good positioning control.

It seems the more you zoom in, the finer your ability becomes to
position shapes with the arrow keys, so try zooming in.

-Jim

 

[CyberTaz]

Hi Jim... Doesn't apply here The OP is [I believe] referring to
inserting images as Fills for Shapes, not positioning Shapes on slides.
AFAIK the images are always centered in the shape & there is no way to
modify that positioning on insertion or afterward.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Jim Gordon Mac MVP]

Hi Jim... Doesn't apply here The OP is [I believe] referring to
inserting images as Fills for Shapes, not positioning Shapes on slides.
AFAIK the images are always centered in the shape& there is no way to
modify that positioning on insertion or afterward.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

Hi,

You can move shapes by selecting them and then pressing the arrow keys
on the keyboard. That usually gives you good positioning control.

It seems the more you zoom in, the finer your ability becomes to
position shapes with the arrow keys, so try zooming in.

-Jim

Ah! That's true. The trick is to insert put the two pictures on the
slide independently. Arrange one to be in front of the other, size and
position them as desired, and then group them.

-Jim

 

[ciozzia]

Thanks for the great advise. I am trying to supplement my lack of the proper editing software, {photoshop} to do the masking process.