How to Zoom Through Text on a Photo in PowerPoint! 🔥 [PPT TIPS!]

In this step by step tutorial you'll learn how to make fun cinematic slide transition intros like this using a few shapes, a text box, a photo, and a Morph transition. I take you through the steps (and then made some corrected mistakes along the way 😆). I hope you try this out in your next presentation. Let me know how it goes in the comments below!
⌚ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Ahoy!
00:39 Slide demo
00:55 Make it from scratch!
01:30 Insert photo and text box
02:28 Insert rectangle shape
03:06 Subtract Text from rectangle shape
03:40 Duplicate slide and add MORPH!
04:42 Cut out the "O"
05:46 Test it in slideshow mode
05:59 Oops! Troubleshooting
07:20 Adjust MORPH transition time
08:30 Thanks for watching!
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[@jawedsanjar9330]

Thank you, very well explained, especially the troubleshooting part

[@SpotlightImpact]

Yay! I’m glad you enjoyed it. I hope you’ll subscribe and share! 🙏🏻

[@sebastienroy8068]

oh wow, this is so cool! I did not know you could do this. And it seems so easy to do.

[@SpotlightImpact]

Thanks for watching Seb! Such a fun and EASY effect to make on your slides.

[@ellenpayson3104]

Nice job. Sometimes I’ll be watching a ppt tutorial and the creator makes what seems like a gazillion small mistakes and tiny adjustments with never-ending readjustments and I just go crazy. I’m a very, very patient person but I can get a screaming, head-banging overload of this type of tutorial. This wasn’t the case with yours. You only made two corrections. They were quick, easy to follow and useful for demonstrating troubleshooting of a “here’s a problem you could encounter, here’s why and here’s how to fix or avoid it” nature. Good luck in your YT endeavors. I’m subscribing.

[@SpotlightImpact]

Wow! What a great review! Thank you so much. I really appreciate this! I try really hard not to post things if we’ve got a lot of corrections during the tutorial, but sometimes like you say it can be helpful to know what errors you might encounter along the way. I appreciate your kind words so much! Thank you! 🙏🏻

[@quibu]

Thank you so much

[@SpotlightImpact]

You’re very welcome!!

[@howtousepowerbi]

This is sweet, Nick! :) (it's Joe)

[@SpotlightImpact]

WOOT WOOT! The KZbin channel has arrived! Subscribed!!!

[@howtousepowerbi]

@@SpotlightImpact haha. thanks! You're my first subscriber. Still getting a lot of ducks in a row over here before officially starting... :)

[@ammarockurworld]

You didn't need to apply the Morph transition to the 1st slide. You could just make a duplicate and then apply it to only the 2nd one (same reason why the transition duration is only set on the second slide).

[@SpotlightImpact]

You’re right! Thanks for watching and for the helpful tips!

[@Leo.WCUE.]

How did you make your text so big? for me it will only go up to 96

[@SpotlightImpact]

Interesting haven’t heard that before - I’m in MS365 what’s your version of PPT?

[@jahangirhosain603]

nice

[@SpotlightImpact]

Thanks for watching! I hope you’ll subscribe and share! 🙏🏻

[@artin-morez7625]

When i try to hit the Merge shape it does not allow me what should i do

[@artin-morez7625]

it worked nevermind

[@SpotlightImpact]

@@artin-morez7625 yay! I’m glad it did - it always takes me a while to fiddle with it before it’s correct - just be sure to select the back image first and you should be set! Thanks for watching!

[@Soarmenrl]

For some reason I dont have any tab saying merge shape, Nothing at all...

[@SpotlightImpact]

Hmmmm that’s puzzling. If you’re on a free or web-based version of PPT that might be the case, but I haven’t heard of that. I do know the merge shapes menu only appears if you’re selecting at least two objects that can be merged.

[@SpotlightImpact]

Here's a support post I found, might be helpful answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/merge-button-not-available-in-powerpoint/54147e29-2f13-412a-869e-69d5d906ef04

[@erzascarlet5451]

It isn't working on mobile that merge shapes is not there or something

[@SpotlightImpact]

Maybe that’s the case on mobile. Bummer if so! 🥲

[@madresources4190]

Sorry but it didnt work! Am i missing a step?

[@SpotlightImpact]

Hmmm could be - or maybe your version of ppt doesn’t come w the morph transition? If it does make sure to create everything on tiger first slide, duplicate it for morph to work. If you add new text or objects on subsequent slides the morph transition will break.

[@aleksejmiskovski5601]

It doesn't work for me 😕When I do that it just creates a rectangle from the picture onto the black rectangle.

[@SpotlightImpact]

You’ll want to make sure your selecting the black rectangle first then select the text after that and click subtract from the merge shapes menu. It’ll work - it just takes some playing around - you can do it I believe in you! 💪🏻

[@yegagsgweyshshw5444]

Same

[@SpotlightImpact]

@@yegagsgweyshshw5444 make sure the shape in front fits completely within the bounds of the image in back. Select the image in back first then the image in front then merge shapes subtract

[@mdmehdihasan540]

Please sir can you share me microsoft office 365 file

[@SpotlightImpact]

I’ll create a download link soon on Gumroad and post it there - spotlightimpact.gumroad.com

[@mdmehdihasan540]

@@SpotlightImpact Can you give me the zip file?

[@mdmehdihasan540]

please

[@SpotlightImpact]

@@mdmehdihasan540 don’t have away to send a zip file but you may download the zip file once I post it at the Gumroad link above. 👆🏼

[@user-uc6uv8sz6s]

broski this is neterlands

[@SpotlightImpact]

Looks like it! But this photo was from Windmill Island Gardens 🙂 www.cityofholland.com/471/Windmill-Island-Gardens

[@WilliamSmith-jj9xn]

i dont have morph

[@SpotlightImpact]

Drat! I guess there are still some versions of PPT that don’t have it. I’m using MS 365

[@britzzgod]

bros gae forsure