Slide Into PicLens For Your Next Presentation
August 7th, 2008That big multimedia presentation’s coming up, and you’re just about ready. A little nervous, a little excited, a little strung out on caffeine – but you’re not worried.
You know your presentation is going to stand out from the pack. You’re letting PicLens from the Cooliris Team add seamless navigation to your PowerPoint or Keynote presentation.
Tons of users have asked us how to use PicLens’ 3D Wall effect on their presentations for college courses, business meetings, and conferences. In fact, here at Cooliris, we do all our presentations with PicLens. Using PicLens to show your presentation makes it super easy to navigate back and forth among tons of slides.
PicLens Plugin for PowerPoint
So, how’s it done? We’ll we’ve made a new plugin for Microsoft Powerpoint. It’s smooth, it’s flashy, and it allows you to easily search through your entire presentation for a particular slide and pull it up full-screen. Just click the download button below to get your free copy of the plugin for PowerPoint 2007.
After it’s installed, follow these steps to transform your presentation into a dynamic PicLens slideshow.
1. Make your presentation in PowerPoint as you normally would.
2. Click the “Add-ins” tab on your PowerPoint toolbar, and then select “Create PicLens Gallery” to generate a folder of all the files needed your PicLens slideshow.
3. In that folder, click on the file labeled “index.html” to open it in your web browser (works on Firefox only).
4. Then click the PicLens “Wall” button at the top right of your browser toolbar to launch PicLens and your awesome presentation!
SPECS & REQUIREMENTS: The plugin works only on Firefox on a Windows or Vista with files created on PowerPoint 2007. Files created on previous versions will not work. This is a quick work in progress so there are some limitations. For best results, avoid fancy fonts, shading, and fancy layout designs.
For KeyNote (Mac) Users
We don’t quite have working plugin yet, but the great news is that you can still make put your presentation into PicLens. Here’s how:
1. Within KeyNote, save your slides as images (jpg format recommended).
2. Then use our PicLens Publisher to do the rest! Publisher takes your slide images and generates all the files needed for your presentation.
3. Thereafter, just click the index.html file in that folder and launch PicLens in your Firefox browser along with the presentation.
August 7th, 2008 at 4:19 am
Hi,
Looks great but does it work with Powerpoint 2003 ?
August 7th, 2008 at 7:48 am
Thank you so much for this add-in! I like it!
August 7th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Yes, the plugin should work with PowerPoint 2003-2007.
August 7th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
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August 8th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
I’d love to try this plugin, but when I click download it doesn’t have anything to save. Can you fix the link or point me to another download of this? Thanks!
August 8th, 2008 at 10:53 pm
Hi Michael:
Let’s try copying and pasting this link into the address bar of your browser:
http://piclens.com/publisher/download/powerpoint/PicLensPPTSetup.msi
Kind regards,
Alec & The Cooliris Team
August 9th, 2008 at 5:12 am
Thanks, that worked.
August 13th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
I’m liking Piclens quite a bit, and the idea of doing presentations with it is exciting. As a Firefox user, I appreciate all the plugins available for this excellent browser. However, I also have opted to use Open Office a long time ago, and though I know it’s a long shot, I am curious if there are any plans on making such a plugin for the Open Office Impress software…
Thank you,
Michal
August 14th, 2008 at 11:05 am
does this work for powerpoint for MAC? i can’t seem to get it to work?
August 16th, 2008 at 11:35 am
i cannot get to the add-on tab in office 2007 could you please tell me how to get it to work, its downloaded and installed
August 22nd, 2008 at 9:41 pm
I get to the stage where i have the index file.. but can’t find the piclens “wall” toolbar to launch it?
Help
August 23rd, 2008 at 10:53 am
Is there a way to take a “wall” and make it play itself (slideshow) without you having to keep clicking the mouse? What I want to do is take the Olympics “wall” under Discover and make it play itself. Thanks.
October 2nd, 2008 at 8:10 pm
how pic lens use in Powerpoint 2003. tq so much.
October 8th, 2008 at 4:49 am
This doesn’t work on systems that restrict admin accounts for installation. The .msi file doesn’t work on a lower-privelaged user account (even a Power User account). When you run it using an admin account then it only works with Powerpoint being accessed from that admin user…not from all users. Additionally, there is no “add-ins” tab on the regular user account when Powerpoint 2007 runs for some reason…only on the admin accounts.
October 29th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
Great work, thanks.
Top work
October 31st, 2008 at 6:46 pm
Top work
December 3rd, 2008 at 2:12 am
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December 4th, 2008 at 9:05 am
thanks, works great with Power Point 2003 it is a whole new experience
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