With the sand stretched out, let’s also change the color of the sand to something a bit more cheerful. Now I want some more sand to work with for my scene, so let’s compress the scene vertically a bit, and then grab the bottom portion of the sand and stretch it out. With the palm tree gone, let’s put our picture back together so it’s easier to work with, so re-select all of the pieces of the scene (CTRL + A) and group them together (CTRL + G on your keyboard). The resulting image should look like the below.ĥ. So with the vector graphic ungrouped, select the pieces of the palm tree and the shadow and hit Delete to remove them. I want a nice clean beach scene to build on, so let’s remove that palm tree with that shadow. We can remove any of the layers, or change their shape or color. Now that these are ungrouped, we can freely format and manipulate the individual pieces anyway we like. With the dialog box closed, ungroup your graphic a second time, and you can now see all of the different shapes that make up your vector image. Do you want to convert it to a Microsoft Office drawing object? Select Yes. Ungrouping a vector image or graphic, a dialog box appears stating: This is an imported picture, not a group. With your vector graphic placed, ungroup the graphic by either hitting CTRL + SHIFT + G on your keyboard, or right-clicking the graphic and selecting Ungroup in the right-click menu. I’ll also stretch it out to fit the entire slide area. If you want to create this scene in particular (before experimenting with your own), you canįor my picture creation, I’m going to take pieces from different pictures and put them together into a new one – a girl tanning herself on the beach. So I’ll use our Palm Tree vector image, which we found earlier and will insert it onto the slide (either with the copy/paste or Insert methods, as mentioned before). Add your vector image to your slideįirst off, I need the background beach scene that I’ll use. Part 2: Setting up your vector image scene – 2:50įor my picture creation, I’m going to take pieces from different pictures and put them together into a new one – a girl tanning herself on the beach. …or you can download the images and insert them into your presentation using the Insert picture command. Palm Tree image link used in this tutorialĭepending on your browser (and some browsers have both options), you can either copy and paste these images directly from the ClipArt gallery (using the green Copy button)… The link below opens to the Microsoft ClipArt gallery (which will soon be discontinued) filtered to the Palm Tree beach scene that I will use for the basis of this animated vector graphic tutorial. Now when searching for vector images using the ClipArt gallery, you want to narrow your search to illustrations and resizable, then enter your keywords. One of my favorite places for finding free vector images is within the Microsoft ClipArt search gallery.Īnd while the ClipArt gallery site has been replaced by the Bing search engine as your new main tool for finding imagery in later versions of PowerPoint, you can can still use the link below as a backdoor way to get to the original gallery. As you can see, it is just made up of individual pieces, that when combined, create the roaring lion.Īs mentioned, the advantage of vector images is that you can modify the shapes that make up the image, delete the pieces that you don’t want and/or take different pieces of different images and combine them to create your own unique ones. Part 1: What’s a vector graphic? – 1:35īefore we get started, here’s an overview of what vector graphics are.Ī vector image or vector graphic is basically just shapes that are grouped together to create the image or graphic.įor example, the below roaring lion is an example of a vector image. I did my best to add screen shots of the effects throughout this written guide, so bear with me. I’ve also marked the different parts of this written guide with the timing of the video tutorial in case you want to jump to that section of the video to see the animated effect we are building.
I’ve broken the written guide into five parts, so that you can jump around more easily if you like to. Here is a step by step written tutorial showing you how to pull this animated vector image scene off.