Pictures overlapping eachother on the same slide

[kaiks]

Hey guys!

Just like the title says. So I'm creating a "photo-powerpoint presentation" for work. The purpose of the assignment is to create a powerpoint presentation where pictures will be the shown overlapping eachother. For example on one slide I want there to be shown 4 pictures, that will later be overlapped by 4 new photos etc (note that I want it to be on the same slide, not that slide 2 will show 4 new pictures). There will be roughly 100+ pictures and this is where the problem starts. If i keep overlapping the pictures ontop of eachother I reccon it will be pretty difficult to edit the pictures later on. Any good suggestions on how to do this in an easy way? Or if it's possible to link 2 or more slides together so it gives the illusion that the pictures are being overlapped?



Thanks,
Kaiks

[ryanbrewer1109]

OPTION A (single slide):
Become best friends with the Selection Pane and name every image. Only view the ones you wish to work with at any given moment.

OPTION 2 (multiple slides--better option I think and more likely to render animation smoothly):
This option gives the illusion that you are retaining all the pictures, but you are only working with 4 at a time across multiple slides.
1) Create the first slide with 4 pictures. We'll call this slide A.
2) Save the completed slide as an image as follows:
Click File<Save As and change file type to .png
Save the file (e.g. "photo collage 1.png"). When prompted, select "This slide only"
3)Create a new blank slide--we'll call this slide B. Format the background to be "Picture or Texture fill" and browse to select the image you just saved. So now slide B looks like the completed version of slide A.
4) Add four new photos to slide B.
5) Repeat steps 2-5 until complete. With 100 photos, this will give you a total of 25 image files/slides to work with, but only 4 animated photos per slide.