sharing garing

Happy New Year everyone!!!  I am so excited to be writing up the first Technology Tuesday tutorial on the very first day of 2013!  The winner of this weeks poll was how to make text boxes that are transparent and semi-transparent/translucent!


This weeks poll was pretty spread out, but this choice was the clear winner!


Ive outline how to do this in both PowerPoint and Word!  Enjoy!




For next weeks poll, Im going to add an iPad/smartphone tutorial.  Lately when Ive been visiting blogs on my iPad, the mobile version of the blog has been loading, and it doesnt look as pretty!  So, Ill be adding how to change the view so it shows the full version of the blog youre visiting!

I am so excited to write this post because it is my 100th post on my blog and my 20th Technology Tuesday post!  I never expected to write 100 posts in the five months Ive had this blog!  I really do enjoy it though!

Now, onto todays post... how to save a powerpoint slide with a transparent background!


This poll was a real nail biter!  I was really nervous it would end up being a tie!


Luckily, it wasnt a tie!  Im really excited to blog about this fantastic idea that Mercedes over at Surfing to Success gave to me!  She has a ton of technology tutorials on her blog also so you should definitely check it out!


Now, onto the tutorial!



And of course, you can have those two cute star images for free!



To download this tutorial as a PDF, just click the button below.  I decided to host the files on Google Docs instead of TPT and hopefully Ill get the other posts up soon!


For next weeks poll I had the hardest time picking what to add!  In my linky party below, the question came up as to how you add the HTML code to your blog when someone gives it to you.  Oops... I put the wrong thing on the poll!  I added how to make a collage of photos in any shape.  Ill add the HTML next week!  Be sure to vote for next week, and in the meantime, check out my linky party!

How annoying is it when youre designing a worksheet or a poster and the background of the image gets in the way?  Based on the poll in my sidebar, most people wanted to learn how to get rid of that pesky background and make it totally transparent!  And today... Im going to teach to how to do it, for free!



First things first, download Gimpshop so you can practice along with the following directions!  Gimpshop is like photoshop, but for free!  And... it works on Macs and PCs!

If Gimpshop doesnt install properly on your computer, download Gimp.  Its literally the exact same program, but Gimpshop looks more like Photoshop when its open.  Either will work!

I kept the same format as last week with the step by step directions with images... let me know how you like the format!





Thank you for visiting technology Tuesday!  Speaking of technology... I made three banners for the contest going on over at TPT.  If you like them, please vote on them (be sure to vote on all three!).  All you have to do is click the picture below and click "Like!" on facebook!  Itll take five seconds of your time and Id really appreciate it!