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3D Effects with Radial Gradients

May 3, 2000 by Ellen Finkelstein 6 Comments

PowerPoint’s 3D effects can turn a square into a box and can extrude other AutoShapes, but circles just turn into disks. You can’t get a sphere. The way to make a circle look like a sphere is to add a radial gradient, but alas, PowerPoint doesn’t have good radial gradients. You need to go elsewhere. […]

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Filed Under: Shapes & text boxes Tagged With: 3d effects, gradients, PowerPoint, slideboxx

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