Solved: Fade a picture until it is gone

[Kicker]

I have a powerpoint slide with a picture on it. What I need to do is fade the picture out while I am talking. In otherwords, it needs to slowly disappear off the slide.

Can it's transparency be changed by a timer?

Any ideas would be helpful.

[Kicker]

For lack of response, I went to Photoshop and generated about a dozen copies of the picture, each with a little less opaqueness. then, with imageready, I created a gif file and inserted it into the ppt. Not exactly what I was looking for, but it will get the job done.

If anyone has a better way or knows how to control the opaqueness in PowerPoint, I would be glad to hear from you.

[Andy Pope]

Hi,

Assign this to the Mouseclick Action for the picture.
It adjusts the brightness of the picture until it becomes white.
Change slide and shape indexes to suit your ppt.
[vba]Sub Fade()
'
Dim lngIndex As Long
Dim sngBright As Single

With ActivePresentation.Slides(1).Shapes(3).PictureFormat
sngBright = 0
Do
.IncrementBrightness sngBright
For lngIndex = 1 To 9999
Next
sngBright = sngBright + 0.01
DoEvents
Loop While sngBright <= 1
End With

End Sub[/vba]
BTW PPT2003 has fade built in.

[Kicker]

Andy:
You are my hero...and I actually understand what it does.-- Thanks

[geekgirlau]

Isn't this covered by any of the built-in animations?

[Kicker]

Not really.
Standard animation is an On/Off situation. I need to slowly control how it fades over a specific period of time.

For a safety briefing, I am using a picture of a Motorcycle and rider titled "What the Car Drivers See". While I talk about the chrome, the lights, the passenger wearing the thong I mention how the Driver is "waving" to the riders. All along, the picture is fading out and then I talk about the driver turning into the Motorcycle because it is "invisible". Car drivers "see" motorcycles, but don't really belive they are there.