July 2007 - Posts

ANN: PowerPoint Tutorial by Mukund Nadkarni
Tue, Jul 31 2007 4:40

Another PowerPoint Heaven's update.
New PowerPoint tutorial (Power Cut) submitted by Mukund Nadkarni. While Photoshop and other graphic editing software have Lasso Tool, this tutorial shows you how to extract portion of images from its background just using PowerPoint alone.

Link: http://pptheaven.mvps.org/tutorials.html#PowerCut

 

by tohlz | with no comments
A new logo, a new layout
Mon, Jul 30 2007 5:49

PowerPoint Heaven has been undergoing several changes recently. Mainly to get the site more organized and professional. Now to consolidate some of major updates:
Updated logo - The purpose is to bring clarity and makes the logo looks neater. The changes include:

  1. Lighter cloud
  2. Added border color on the wordings
  3. Smaller wordings
  4. Centered the entire logo
  5. Fixed some alignment issue
  6. Added "The Power to Animate"
  7. Color of shadow has been changed

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Updated frontpage layout - The frontpage on PowerPoint Heaven has been updated. The previous layout was limited and disorganized. The new layout will allow more content to be added. In addition, a category on Featured Tutorials has been included.

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by tohlz | with no comments
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Jerry's PowerPoint Artwork - Squall Leonhart (3D)
Fri, Jul 27 2007 9:57

Added PowerPoint Artwork by Jerry. The artwork shows Squall Leonhart (Impressively in 3D!) from Square Enix's video game, Final Fantasy VIII.  Check out Jerry's Projects under Recommended Downloads for the artwork.

by tohlz | with no comments
Speech-Over 2.3
Thu, Jul 26 2007 1:16
Version 2.3 of Speech-Over has been released. According to Joel from Speech-Over, it is first-of-a-kind software for quickly and easily adding perfectly-timed voices in animated PowerPoint presentations for multi-media education and training.

You can check out the press release at:
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/7/prweb541664.htm

 

by tohlz | with no comments
More news on Pointer's Way [arcade]
Tue, Jul 24 2007 0:39
An official trailer of an upcoming PowerPoint game, Pointer's Way [arcade], only for Office 2007. Gamers must scroll their way through 96 levels. Avoid killer obstacles, and unlock things to get passed through. Pointer's Way [arcade] will be avaible on December 2007 at PowerPoint Heaven.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b88uiI7XQ-0
by tohlz | with no comments
PowerPoint Game - Eternal Escape
Thu, Jul 19 2007 5:41
New PowerPoint Heaven update!
Added a PowerPoint Game - Eternal Escape.

 

Eternal Escape is a PowerPoint graphic adventure game (an escape the room genre) well inspired by MOTAS. In this game, you are required to solve the puzzles and riddles provided and make use of objects you found to escape from locked rooms. Story will continue to progress as the level increases. More rooms and levels were be added from time to time.

Storyline: Your role as a young and intelligent scientist, who has been spending years researching on perfect eternity formula. One day, you have been kidnapped by some mysterious guys. When you are awake, you found yourself trapped in a room. You tried escaping. Not knowing the reason of the kidnapping, you soon realize that ransom is not what they want...

Link: http://pptheaven.mvps.org/eternal.html (Available in pps and exe format. PowerPoint is not required.)
Need help on escaping? Visit PowerPoint Heaven Discussion Board here!
by tohlz | with no comments
PowerPoint Heaven Discussion Board
Tue, Jul 10 2007 16:58
I have started a PowerPoint Heaven Discussion Board today. The purpose for this board is to allow sharing and discussion on PowerPoint knowledge, tips and tricks. On top of that, if you have any PowerPoint games, portfolio or artworks to showcase, you can share it there too. The board is currently on its beta testing stage as I still need to test the response and other related stuff. If everything goes fine, it should sucessfully replace the current guestbook feature on PowerPoint Heaven. If you have anything to share, start registering on the board now!

PowerPoint Heaven Discussion Board

Enter PowerPoint Heaven Discussion Board
by tohlz | with no comments
New PowerPoint Heaven Contributors and Updates
Sun, Jul 8 2007 3:42

Majoy updates on PowerPoint Heaven!

Ted Thayer is our new PowerPoint Heaven's contributor. A specialist in creating PowerPoint Games, he is also proficient in drawing artworks with PowerPoint. Ted participated in iFilm's PowerPoint 2007 Contest - Your Best Moment in PowerPoint 2007. He was selected as one of the finalists by the internal judges, which then won him the 2nd place with over 40,000 online votes. Added Ted's Projects which can be found in the Animations Page under PowerPoint Games category.

Ted's Projects has it own page at http://pptheaven.mvps.org/ted.html.

30-Second Survival
Figure 1: PowerPoint Game, 30-Second Survival by Ted Thayer

Graham Shaw has submitted a "Creating Basic Timers" tutorial and can be found in Tutorials page under Others category.

In recognition to the hard work and efforts of the contributors, medals are now awarded to works and submissions that stands out from the regular ones. These works are the cream of PowerPoint Heaven. Strict rules and conditions are applied to these awards, hence only the best works will be awarded. Based on these awards, you can also decide which are the recommended choices.
If you have come across icons such as Top Choice Medal Featured Medal Viewers' Choice Medal when browsing through PowerPoint Heaven, they represent the PowerPoint Heaven's Medals.

Works and submissions previously featured on the front page are now archived. They can be found in the Featured Archive page.

by tohlz | with no comments
Import vs. Native: The PointClips Advantage
Sat, Jul 7 2007 0:17


I remember introducing the hand drawn artworks by PointClips earlier on. Thanks to Jeff from PointClips.com, this time you will get to see a short demonstration of the advantages for using PowerPoint artworks as compared to imported graphics. The main casts in this demo are Irene Import and Ned Native. Check this out: http://www.pointclips.com/advantage.html
by tohlz | with no comments
Pointer's Way [two] First Look
Fri, Jul 6 2007 2:45

Now you will probably be wondering the direction of Fikree's next Pointer's Way series. Well, apart from getting completely re-designed, the upcoming Pointer's Way [two] will slightly be different from its predecessor, with a more colorful and cartoony theme. Here's a sample video of how the game might look like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSwd9V1kkGI

by tohlz | with no comments