This graphic will get their attention, and they won’t believe you created it in PowerPoint! It’s suitable to be a theme graphic that recurs in your presentation.

The photos have been sized and imported into the circle slices and then tinted. Everything can be accomplished in PowerPoint 2003 except the tinting, unless you format the photos to grayscale and then overlay colored semitransparent fields (see blog entry that discusses this technique).

Adding WordArt around a circle like this is a good choice. Create your WordArt and then resize the WordArt so that it is perfectly round, e.g., 3″ high by 3″ wide. Then rescale (hold shift key down as you resize) so that the WordArt “frames” the circle of photo segments. The circular WordArt can be animated to spin slowly.

This is actually a fun graphic to produce – highly imaginative as you select the photographs to place in the segments. The segments within the circle can also be animated to switch out with other photos, creating a dynamic graphic with a broad visual message.