To plead for some computer savvy help?!

[LittleEsmeWeatherwax]

If anyone out there is really computer savvy, then PLEEEEEEASE help!

I'm trying to put one picture on top of another using powerpoint. But the picture I'm trying to insert onto the other is merely blocking out the picture underneath!

Does that make any sense at all?

I know it's not an AIBU - I'm just really stressing about this now....

I am on a Mac at the mo so can't test it, but from memory does it work if you right click and format the picture so you can send some thing to the background?

Thanks Berry

Tried that, but it makes the whole pic vanish, including the numbers and dials. Starting to think it's not possible.

Wanted to put a clock on a girly smiley to demonstrate that time is a feminine in languages.

It is possible, I just need to be able to walk through it but not poss on a mac. Could you do it on Smart/Activ board instead - I can tell you the activstudio method in my sleep :) !

I'd start again with both pics if I were you. Delete them both and then re-paste into PowerPoint. The computer gets a bit confused about ordering them after a while...

Right-click on the girly smiley and select 'send to back'. Then just drag the clock onto the top of it. Obviously the smiley needs to be bigger than the clock so it'll still show behind it.

The only thing you can't do is make the top pic 'transparent' so that the bottom pic shows through it. The only way to do that is maybe 'build' a clock yourself using clip art shapes once you've placed the smiley and sent it to the back.

Hope that helps.

Did you try this from another website?

Instead of using insert picture, create a rectangle. Then Click on Format => AutoShape => Colors & Lines (tab) => select Fill Effects from the Color pulldown menu => Picture (tab) => Select Picture => navigate to the picture you want to insert => Insert => OK => Use the slider to set the transparency to about 50% => OK

Or

Use Photoshop or another image editing program to remove all the parts of the picture except the parts you want to be included. Don't forget to save to an image type that supports transparency (PNG or GIF). Then, when you add the pictures with the parts removed, animate them to appear and they will overlay the previous picture, but only where there is something to show.

Oh, you're all so lovely to type all this.

Right. Plan of action. Kettle, stretch legs, cuppa.

Then, I'm going to trawl through your suggestions until I crack it.

Can't tell you how grateful I am.

I think...if you use the 'ordering' from my post and the transparency from Toofat, you've got it! I never knew about the transparency, thanks for that!

Berry I'd LOVE to be able to use ActiveStudio....

Wish I could go on a course. It would make the world of difference to some of my lessons.