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On your browser type www.powtoon.com and hit enter

http://www.powtoon.com/


Welcome to Powtoon


Getting started Click ‘Start now’


Signing up Fill out the fields. Or sign up with one of the social account options


Signing up Then choose among the profiles suggested then click ‘Sign me up’


Signing up Signing up through Facebook. Click Facebook icon.


Signing up Fill out the text fields. Click ‘log in’.


Signing up Click ‘okay’.


Getting started Next this step by step guide window will appear. Click ‘open a blank project’.


Getting started Next just fill out the text fields, click ‘create’.


loading Next it will open a new tab for you and a video will play,

click close and wait for the awesomeness to load.


awesomeness Welcome to the editing dashboard.


navigation

Tools.


navigation

Tools.

New slides and for saving your work

Editing tools


navigation

Tools.

Media tools. For adding image and

soundtrack

Text Editing tools


navigation

Tools.

Preview and exporting tool


navigation

On the left side portion of the

dashboard is the Slide panel.


navigation Duplicate slide

Clone objects to slide

Click to switch in between modes (movie or slideshow)

Add slide

Delete slide


navigation

Slide panel according to

sequence

Transition display

Time length of the presentation

Time frame of the slide selected


navigation

Right side is the object panel

• Text effects • Image holders • Animated characters • Props • Markers • Shapes • Transitions • Backgrounds

Style options


navigation At the center is your canvas

timeline


navigation Play/pause

Flip object

Play current slide Play current slide from the start

Play all slides from start

Object enter/exit effects tool


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.


Slide 1 A text box automatically appears on the canvas

Also slide one is filled.


timeline Notice the time frame starts at 0:03 sec,

that’s because the “start play point” is in the 3 sec point.

Timeline is filled also


timeline

Timeline is filled from 2s to 10s, meaning

the text effect is visible in the canvas for that span of time

That is the exit effect of the text object

No entry effect but has exit effect (see timeline)


Text object Back to our canvas. Let’s enter a title, Click ‘double click to edit text’


Text object Then text effect manager window will pop up. Double click then enter text


Text object If done typing. Click ‘Apply’.

Click play button to

see the effect


Text object You can drag objects to proffered placement with in the canvas


character Let’s add an object. On the right side click “ or ”to browse options.


character Choose this character


character

Scroll down. Under

‘animation’ characters.


character

Hover over the characters to

preview. Choose the meditating

one. Click it


Character It appears on the center. Drag it into the place you want.

A little bit lower may be.


timeline With the character object selected. See timeline. It is located on the “6s” mark.


Play starting point

First lets drag the to the “0sec” mark


timeline The canvas appears empty. Click on the character icon below timeline


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 6th sec.


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 disappear.


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.


timeline Noticed that the character appears first before the text object?

even though we placed the text object in the canvas first, also they are on the same 2s mark?

Why is that?


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.


timelilne

Let’s make their entry more defined. Let’s put the character at 1 sec, fading in at .5sec.

Drag the “ ”


timeline

Then let’s make the character exit early also, cut down its appearance until 2s mark fade out at 2.5 sec.

Drag the “ ”


entry/exit effect Let’s change the entry and exit effect. While character is

selected. Click icon to make sure.

Then click enter effect icon.


Entry/exit effect Choose fade. Do the same with the exit effect.


Entry/exit effect They should be like this.


timeline

Let’s put the text object entry 3 sec mark.

Drag the “ ”


timeline

Let’s cut the exit up to 5sec mark, fading out at 5.5sec mark.

Drag the “ ”


playback

Now, hit play from start.


timeline Awesome right!?

now don’t you think 10 seconds is too long for slide 1? Let’s make it shorter then.

Click “ – “

cutting up to 6sec.


background let’s change the background of the

canvas. On the right panel, scroll down until

‘backgrounds’. Click ‘more’.


background

Now let’s choose yellow. Click it


background Now let’s choose yellow. Click it


transition

Let’s put a transition effect before going to slide 2.

On the right panel. Under ‘transition’ click ‘more’.


transition Let’s put a transition effect before going to slide 2.

On the right panel. Under ‘transitions’ click ‘zoom out’.


Slide 2

On the left panel. Click on slide 2.


background let’s change the background of the

canvas. On the right panel, scroll down until

‘backgrounds’. Click ‘more’.


background

Now let’s choose yellow. Click it


Slide 2 Your canvas should look like this


Text effects Let’s put a text object. On the right panel. Under text effect click ‘more’.


Text effects

Choose and click ‘Word scaling down’


Enter text


Enter text Type “1. INCREASED IMMUNITY”


Enter text

Chance font style into ‘sansita one’.


Enter text Click ‘apply’.


Enter text Drag into the desired place. At the center of the canvas.


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.


Inserting image On the tools panel. Click image icon.


Inserting image Image manager will pop up. Click ‘upload file’


Inserting image You can also search images on web to be uploaded. Click ‘web search’


Inserting image Click ‘apply’.


Inserting image Drag it and resize. For this one I’ve placed it over the text.


timeline

let’s edit the timeline so that the overlapping of image will make sense. Click the text object icon.


timeline

Let’s set the entry point of the text object to 0.5sec mark. Drag the “ “


timeline

Still on the text object. Let’s cut the exit point at 2sec mark. Drag the “ “.


Exit effect Still on the text object. Click icon and select ‘right’


timeline

Timeline for the text object should look like this.


timeline

Next select the image. Click icon.


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.


Entry effect

Let’s change the entry effect to ‘right’. You can set it also by clicking the icon on the timeline.


Entry effect

It should now look like this.


timeline

Let’s cut the exit to 3.5 sec mark

Timeline should look like this


timeline

Check Change the entry and exit effect Image object’s entry and exit effects should be like this.


Text object Let’s put the number 2 benefit. On the right panel under text

effects, click ‘letters bouncing’.


Text object On the text effect manager, type “2. emotional balance”.

Click ‘apply’.


Text object Drag and place on the center on the center of the canvas.


Inserting image On the tools panel. Click image icon.


Inserting image Image manager will pop up. Click ‘upload file’


Add image I’ll be using this image.


Add image Click apply.


Add image Drag the image on top of the text object and resize accordingly.


timeline

By now, you know how to manage the timeline. Click the text object icon of the ‘2.’ item.


timeline

Set up the timeline of the text object and follow this settings. Entry point: 4s exit point: 6.5s

exit effect: down


timeline

Next is the image object. Click the icon.


timeline

Set up the timeline of the image object and follow this settings. Entry point: 7s exit point: 8s

Entry and exit effects:


timeline

Then add 5 seconds to the timeline. Click “+” to make it 15s


Text object Next is the number 3 reason. On the right panel.

Under text effect click ‘letters rolling’.


Text object Place it again in the center. Ooops! Looks like I forgot to type “3.”

Click edit icon to go back to text manager and edit.


timeline

Let’s first set the timeline setting of the text object. Click the icon.


timeline Set up the timeline, following these settings:

Entry point: 8s exit point: 11s

exit effect: down


Insert image I’ll be using this image


Insert image

Place image at the center over the text. Resize accordingly.


timeline

Select the image object. Click the image icon.


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


Text object

On the right panel. Under

text effects Click ’words fading’.


Text object Enter text “4. BETTER MEMORY”


timeline

Select text object. Click icon.


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.


timeline

Add 5 seconds to the timeline to make it 20 s . Click ‘+’.


Insert image I’ll be using this image


Insert image Insert and place image. Resize accordingly.


timeline

Select the image object. Click image icon.


timeline Set the timeline settings to:

Entry point: 15s exit point: 16s

Entry effect: down; swipe hand enabled exit effect: pop


Text object On the right panel. Under text effects. Click ‘letters appearing’.


Text object Type and enter text “5. MORE CREATIVITY”.


timeline

Select text object. Click icon


timeline Set timeline settings to:

entry point: 16.5 s exit point: 19.5 s

exit effect to: right


transition On the right panel, under transition. Click “roller”


3rd slide

On the left panel. Click 3rd slide


Background image

Change background. This time a photo upload. Click image icon.


Background image I’ll be using this image


Background image Tick the check box ‘set selected image as background. Click ‘Apply’.


Background image

Slide 3 should look like this.


Add text Type and enter : “GREAT JOB!” using the hand writing text effect.


Add text Place it on middle right corner.


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


Save

We are done. Click ‘save’ to save work


preview

Click preview to see your masterpiece


End You are officially awesome!

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