Puzzle Pieces

[Amour]

Please help with this I followed what to do as directed below, but the
picture does not break up with the puzzle pieces. What am i doing wrong,
when I seperate the puzzle pieces the background picture is still there.
When I take away a puzzle piece shoundn't there be nothing behind that piece?

Thank You!

Format > Background, in drop down menu select Fill Effects
Click on the Picture tab. Click on the Select Picture button. Browse to find
your image. Click Insert. Click Apply. Image will now fill your background.

Now, on the slide in which you've inserted the background, cover this
background image by drawing a rectangle over the entire image using color of
choice (or use the image(s) from your master)

To insert the puzzle image: Click your Auto Shapes button. Select More Auto
Shapes. In your task pane on the right of your screen browse to find the
puzzle. Double click. Resize as needed. Duplicate the pieces in order to have
more. Group the pieces.

Now, right click on the group. Select Format Auto Shape. Under Fill > Color
select Background. Click OK.

Ungroup your puzzle pieces. TA DA!

 

[john wilson]

If you seperate the pieces by dragging then the "empty space" should show
the colour of the inserted rectangle but the puzzle piece will take on the
background picure at its new position. If you seperate with a motion path
the puzzle piece will retain its original part of the picture.

If you can see background picture where you've moved the piece from
something is wrong!

Do you have a coloured rectangle behind the pieces. Is the layer order
correct (ie send the rectangle "TO THE BACK")

 

[John Wilson]

Afterthought - you havent somehow set the fill of the rectangle to background
as well have you? If you delete the rectangle, insert a new (say black)
rectangle over the whole slide and send to back does this cure it?

 

[Amour]

Thank you that worked, what I was doing wrong was that I was including the
rectangle into the grouping of the puzzle pieces and the reason was to square
off the borders of the puzzle.

 

[John Wilson]

When youve got the hang of the "basic" technique you can get straight edges
by making a puzzle shaped mask instead of the rectangle. Copy the puzzle,
paste and fill with black. Group and send to back. If I remeber correctly I
did a paste special as a PNG and touched up the shape in photoshop to get a
perfect finish.

Glad to be of help by the way

John