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Slide Into PicLens For Your Next Presentation

August 7th, 2008

That 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.

PicLens PowerPoint Selected

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 PowerPoint Wall

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.

Download

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.

PicLens PowerPoint Addin

3. In that folder, click on the file labeled “index.html” to open it in your web browser (works on Firefox only).

PicLens PowerPoint File

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.

19 Responses to “Slide Into PicLens For Your Next Presentation”

  1. Hooch Says:

    Hi,

    Looks great but does it work with Powerpoint 2003 ?

  2. Jeffrey Says:

    Thank you so much for this add-in! I like it!

  3. admin Says:

    Yes, the plugin should work with PowerPoint 2003-2007. :)

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  5. michael Says:

    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!

  6. admin Says:

    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

  7. michael Says:

    Thanks, that worked.

  8. Michal Says:

    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

  9. Jim Says:

    does this work for powerpoint for MAC? i can’t seem to get it to work?

  10. matthew badsey Says:

    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

  11. Deb Says:

    I get to the stage where i have the index file.. but can’t find the piclens “wall” toolbar to launch it?
    Help

  12. Pat Smith Says:

    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.

  13. fery tamba Says:

    how pic lens use in Powerpoint 2003. tq so much.

  14. Scott Says:

    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.

  15. Great work, thanks. Says:

    Great work, thanks.

    Top work

  16. Great work, thanks. Says:

    Top work

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  18. Patricio Says:

    thanks, works great with Power Point 2003 it is a whole new experience :)

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