Creating a PowerPoint Splash Screen
Today I recorded my screen as I created a PowerPoint splash screen (or title screen) for a message series by our youth pastor. This is the sort of project I do regularly at The City Church – especially for Generation Church.
I thought it would be interesting to both document and share the video:
Some notes:
- You’ll notice a short pause after I launch Safari – it was inexplicably unresponsive.
- I use a lot of shortcuts – especially in Photoshop – from muscle-memory. I apologize if it’s hard to follow at times.
- I use a technique for building the title layer in order to treat it which keeps the “build” still available for editing – hence the hidden folder layer in the final document.
- I was surprised how quick and easy it was to find a perfect (free) font for the project. I expected to have to cut out a portion of the video while I searched for the right font.
This is very cool – always fun to see how people do what they do. If you ever do any freelance projects, don’t mention that you can turn stuff around in 6 minutes. Could really hurt profitability :)
§ sj · 04 November 2009
You must share that wallpaper! :) (Let’s be honest, you saw this coming.)
§ Matthew Robertson · 04 November 2009
@sj: That’s why I can’t charge by the hour when I do freelance.
@Matthew: I actually didn’t see it coming, but now that I think about it, I’m not surprised. Here you go.
§ Sean · 04 November 2009
It’s always fun to see similarities in another person’s process, especially for creating title slides. Thanks for sharing this video.
P.S. I didn’t know you could transform individual points on a shape layer. Awesome!
§ David Hemphill · 05 November 2009
This was totally inspiring for me. I love the way you added texture to the background – so simple for such a great effect. Also, really liked how you used a 0% fill and inner shadow on the whole canvas. I will be storing that trick for future projects.
Thanks for sharing. I’d love to see more of these in the future.
§ Jim Arment · 08 November 2009