Awesome Image Fills!
Logic: a fast way to
fill an autoshape with an image background in PowerPoint
2013
A lot of my work depends on speed in
building presentations. I often reuse animations, changing
the images. This
tutorial demonstrates how.
PowerPoint 2013 offers an absolutely
fantastic way to do this on the fly without drilling down
through countless dialogue boxes.
I have an image at the top of the slide
(from a current project I'm working on) and an autoshape at
the bottom.
I right click on the top image and select
"Copy".
![picture of man swimming and auto shape](../images/quick_image_fills/img35.jpg)
I then right click on the bottom shape and
select "Format Shape".
![format shape menu item](../images/quick_image_fills/img36.jpg)
The format picture task pane appears. Select the paint
bucket icon and the picture or texture fill radio button.
![insert picture options](../images/quick_image_fills/img37.jpg)
Then click the Clipboard button (also circled
red).
![image inserted into a shape](../images/quick_image_fills/img38.jpg)
The autoshape at the bottom is automatically
filled with the image from the first picture I placed on the
clipboard when I copied it.
Now, we can go on to do some other effects
only available in autoshapes, in this case by editing the
autoshape points.
![editing auto shape points](../images/quick_image_fills/img39.jpg)
Absolutely cool, and a very powerful demonstration of how
some features in PowerPoint 2013 have
been brought to the surface!
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