How to use Powtoon
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How to get there On your browser type www.powtoon.com www.powtoon.com and and hit enter
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Welcome to Powtoon
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Getting started Click ‘Start now’
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Signing up Fill out the fields. Or sign up with one of the social account options
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Signing up Then choose among the profiles profiles suggested suggested then click ‘Sign me up’
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Signing up Signing up through Facebook. Click Facebook icon.
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Signing up Fill out the text fields. Click ‘log in’.
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Signing up Click ‘okay’.
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Getting started Next this step by step guide window will appear. Click ‘open a blank project’.
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Getting started Next just fill out the text fields, click ‘create’.
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loading Next it will open a new tab for you and a video will play, play, click close and wait for the th e awesomeness to load.
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awesomeness Welcome to the editing dashboard.
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navigation Tools.
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navigation Tools.
New slides and for saving your work
Editing tools
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navigation Tools.
Media tools. For adding image and soundtrack
Text Editing tools
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navigation Tools.
Preview and exporting tool
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navigation On the left side portion of the dashboard is the Slide panel.
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navigation Duplicate slide Delete slide
Clone objects to slide
Add slide
Click to switch in between modes (movie or slideshow)
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navigation Time frame of the slide selected
Time length of the presentation
Transition display Slide panel according to sequence
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navigation Style options Right side is the object panel •
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Text effects Image holders Animated characters Props Markers Shapes Transitions Backgrounds
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navigation At the center is your canvas
timeline
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navigation Play/pause Play current slide from the start
Play current slide
Play all slides from start
Flip object
Object enter/exit effects tool
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Create awesomeness Let’s start a project. So what do you have in mind? Let’s make something about “5 benefits of meditation”. Let’s start on the title. On the right side choose text effect.
I’ll use hand writing effect, Click on it.
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Slide 1 A text box automatically automatically appears on the canvas
Also slide one is filled.
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timeline Notice the time frame starts at 0:03 sec, that’s because because the “start play point” point” is in the 3 sec point.
Timeline is filled also
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timeline That is the exit effect of the text object
No entry effect but has exit effect (see timeline)
Timeline is filled from 2s to 10s, meaning the text effect is visible in the canvas for that span of time
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Text object Back to our canvas. Let’s enter a title, Click ‘double click to edit text’
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Text object Then text effect effect manager window will pop up. Double click then enter text text
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Text object If done typing. Click ‘Apply’.
Click play button to see the effect
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Text object You can drag objects to proffered proffered placement with in the canvas
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character Let’s add an object. On the right side click “ or
”to browse options.
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character Choose this character
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character Scroll down. Under ‘animation’ characters.
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character Hover over the characters to preview. Choose the meditating one. Click it
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Character It appears on the th e center. center. Drag it into the place p lace you want. A little bit lower may be.
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timeline With the character object selected. See timeline. It is located on the “6s” mark.
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Play starting point First lets drag the to the “0sec” mark
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timeline The canvas canvas appears empty. empty. Click on the character icon below timeline
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timeline This icon appears again, its the start play point, meaning when you hit the play button, animation starts at this point which is at 2sec point
With character being selected, under 6s mark meaning it will appear on the 6 th sec.
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timeline
See those blue bars and the fill. It means that this character will start to appear at 2s mark up until the 10s mark, it’ll it’ ll disappear disappea r.
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timeline Now try playing slide one.(put first the
in 0sec mark then hit play)
We are done with slide 1. consisting 2 objects only.
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timeline Noticed that the character appears firs firstt before the text object? even though we placed the text object in the canvas canvas first, also they are on the same 2s mark? Why is that?
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timeline Here is why.
That slope filled space there is a fading entry starting at 1.5s. So it appears a fraction of a second earlier than the text object.
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timelilne Let’s make their entry more defined. Let’s put the character at 1 sec, fading in at .5sec. Drag the “ ”
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timeline Then let’s make make the character character exit early also, cut down its appearance until 2s mark fade out at 2.5 sec. Drag the “ ”
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entry/exit effect Let’s change the entry and exit exit effect. While character character is selected. Click icon to make sure.
Then click enter effect icon.
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Entry/exit effect Choose fade. Do the same with the exit effect.
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Entry/exit effect They should be like this.
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timeline Let’s put the text object entry 3 sec mark. Drag the “ ”
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timeline Let’s cut the exit up to 5sec mark, fading out at 5.5sec mark. Drag the “ ”
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playback Now, hit play from start.
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timeline Awesome right!? now don’t you think 10 seconds is too long for slide 1? Let’s make make it shorter then. Click “ – “
cutting up to 6sec.
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background let’s change the background of the
canvas. On the right panel, pan el, scroll down until ‘backgrounds’. Click ‘more’. ‘more’.
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background Now let’s choose yellow. Click it
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background Now let’s choose yellow. Click it
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transition Let’s put a transition effect before going to slide 2. On the right panel. Under ‘transition’ click ‘more’.
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transition Let’s put a transition effect before going to slide 2. On the right panel. Under ‘transitions’ click ‘zoom out’.
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Slide 2 On the left panel. Click on slide 2.
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background let’s change the background of the
canvas. On the right panel, pan el, scroll down until ‘backgrounds’. Click ‘more’. ‘more’.
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background Now let’s choose yellow. Click it
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Slide 2 Your canvas should look like like this
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Text effects Let’s put a text object. On the right panel. Under text effect click ‘more’.
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Text effects Choose and click ‘Word scaling down’
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Enter text
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Enter text Type “1. INCREASED IMMUNITY”
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Enter text Chance font style into ‘sansita one’.
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Enter text Click ‘apply’ ‘apply ’.
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Enter text Drag into the desired place. At the center ce nter of the canvas.
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Inserting image Now search for an image of your choice regarding immune system. I’ll use this image. I’ve saved it in my computer.
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Inserting image On the tools panel. Click image icon.
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Inserting image Image manager manager will pop pop up. Click Click ‘upload file’
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Inserting image You can also search images on web to be uploaded. Click ‘web search’
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Inserting image Click ‘apply’.
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Inserting image Drag it and resize. For this one I’ve placed it over the text.
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timeline let’s edit the timeline so that the overlapping of of image will make make sense. Click the text text object icon. icon.
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timeline Let’s set the entry point of the text object to 0.5sec mark. Drag the “ “
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timeline Still on the text object. Let’s cut the exit point at 2sec mark. Drag the “ “.
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Exit effect Still on the text object. Click icon and select ‘right’
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timeline Timeline for the text object should look like this.
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timeline Next select the image. Click icon.
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timeline Let’s set the entry point to 3sec mark, fading in 1.5 sec. I guess it is set already to that setting if not, kindly set. It should look like this.
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Entry effect Let’s change the entry effect to ‘right’. You can set it also by clicking the icon on the timeline.
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Entry effect It should now look like this.
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timeline Let’s cut the exit to 3.5 sec mark
Timeline should look like this
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timeline Check Change the entry and exit effect effect Image object’s entry and exit effects should be like this.
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Text object Let’s put the number 2 benefit. On the right panel under text effects, click ‘letters bouncing’.
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Text object On the text effect manager, type “2. emotional balance”. Click ‘apply’ ‘appl y’..
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Text object Drag and place on the center on the center center of the canvas. canvas.
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Inserting image On the tools panel. Click image icon.
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Inserting image Image manager manager will pop pop up. Click Click ‘upload file’
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Add image I’ll be using this image. image.
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Add image Click apply app ly..
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Add image Drag the image on top of the text object and resize accordingly. accordingly.
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timeline By now, you know how to manage the timeline. Click the text object icon of the ‘2.’ item.
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timeline Set up the timeline of the text object and follow this settings. Entry point: 4s exit point: 6.5s exit effect: down
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timeline Next is the image object. Click the icon.
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timeline Set up the timeline t imeline of the image object and follow this settings. Entry point: 7s exit point: 8s
Entry and exit effects:
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timeline Then add 5 seconds to the timeline. Click “+” to make it 15s
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Text object Next is the number 3 reason. On the right panel. Under text effect click ‘letters rolling’.
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Text object Place it again in the center. center. Ooops! Looks like I forgot to type “3.” “3.” Click edit icon to go back to text manager and edit.
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timeline Let’s first first set the timeline setting of the text object.
Click the icon.
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timeline Set up the timeline, following these settings: Entry point: 8s exit point: 11s exit effect: down
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Insert image I’ll be using this image
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Insert image Place image at the center over the text. Resize accordingly.
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timeline Select the image object. Click the image icon.
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timeline Let’s set the timeline settings. Follow these settings: entry point: 11.5 s exit point: 12.5 s
Entry effect: down exit effect: fade
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Text object On the right panel. Under text effects Click ’words fading’ fadin g’..
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Text object Enter text “4. BETTER MEMORY”
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timeline Select text object. Click icon.
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timeline Set the timeline settings to: Entry point: 13 s exit point: 14.5 s
Exit effect: down hand swipe: enable by just clicking on the icon.
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timeline Add 5 seconds to the timeline to make it 20 s . Click ‘+’.
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Insert image I’ll be using this image
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Insert image Insert and place image. Resize accordingly. accordingly.
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timeline Select the image object. Click image icon.
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timeline Set the timeline settings to: Entry point: 15s exit point: 16s
Entry effect: down; swipe hand enabled exit effect: pop
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Text object On the right panel. Under text effects. Click ‘letters appearing’. appeari ng’.
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Text object Type and enter text “5. MORE CREATIVITY CREATIVITY” ”.
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timeline Select text object. Click icon
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timeline Set timeline settings to: entry point: 16.5 s exit point: 19.5 s exit effect to: right
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transition On the right panel, under transition. Click “roller” “roller”
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slide On the left panel. Click 3 rd slide
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Background image Change background. background. This time a photo upload. Click image icon.
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Background image I’ll be using this image
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Background image Tick the check box ‘set selected image as background. Click ‘Apply ‘Apply’’.
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Background image Slide 3 should look like this.
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Add text Type and enter : “GREAT JOB!” using the hand writing text effect.
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Add text Place it on middle right corner.
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timeline Click on the text icon. Set timeline to: entry point: 0.5 s exit point: 4s exit effect: no effect “-”
Also cut down the timeline to 4s. Click ‘ -’ to delete second
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Save We are done. Click ‘save’ to save work
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preview Click preview to see your masterpiece
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End You are officially awesome! I hope you had an awesom awesome e time creating awesomeness Stay updated for more awesome tutorials. Please like and share it. Thank you.
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