NOTSOFINE ART TEMPLATEVAN DER WEYDEN DEPOSITION

Prepared by:Susan Kistler for TheSmarterOne.com

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Quick Startand Art Info

Know what you are doing? Seen one of our decks before? Get started right now by going to slide 6 and editing away or using any of the example slides.

Want to learn more about our slides and how to edit? Read slides 3-5.

This Notsofine Art slidedoc is for a the picture of the sobbing woman shown to the left. It is a small piece excerpted from Rogier van der Weyden’s Deposition. You can find out about the artwork and artist here.

We downloaded the public-domain excerpt from vintageprintable.com.

Use hashtag #notsofineart to tag your creations on your favorite social media platform

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What isnotsofine art?

Notsofine art is a tool for making custom, likely humorous, potentially irreverent, slides and pictures by adding captions to masterpieces (or at least decent old art).

Each deck contains instructions, components, and examples based on an excerpt from a masterpiece. You are welcome to use any of components to make your own notsofine art pieces and slides for your own slide decks.

You can use any of the example slides as-is, just copy and paste the slide into a slide deck or use “save as” and select jpg to save a slide as a picture.

Follow @notsofineart on Twitter or check out the NotSoFineArt section at TheSmarterOne.com

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SlideComponents

Our pictures come primarily from classic masterpieces. Each is a portion of a larger work with the rest of the painting or photo masked out and made transparent.

The pictures are in the public domain and the source and title (when available) for each picture is included in the slide notes. The masking has been done by a contractor for TheSmarterOne.com. The pictures may be used in other contexts. Please, whenever possible, retain the sourcing information.

Captions are either in a textbox or caption bubbles. The wording may be changed and we encourage you to create your own captions to suit your needs (and sense of humor).

The font style and color have been chosen to complement the picture; however, these too may be changed right in PowerPoint.

Each slide is made up of three components, layered atop a colored background.

The frame is a in a Portable Network Graphics or .png format with transparent masking so that items underneath it show through its center when layered.

The frame is in the public domain and available for use in other contexts without attribution.

OMG. If you just sat through 60 minutes of bullet points you’d be crying too.

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ComponentLayering

The final version of each notsofine art slide consists of the three components identified earlier, layered atop a colored background block. We use a colored square at the bottom, rather than coloring the slide background, so that our slides are more easily copied.

The frame must come next-to last, or last, in order to sit on top of the picture beneath it and cover any stray picture edges.

In order to select the picture, which may be covered by the frame, select and move the frame, or re-layer the stack by sending the frame backwards or, if using the newest version of PowerPoint on a PC, hide the frame while working with the lower layers.

If you want to add additional components to your slide, yet retain the current pieces, be sure to do a visual check of the layering afterwards,

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn’t funny, but chaos in the midst of order is. -Steve Martin

Top: Text/callout box

Frame

PictureBottom: Background color

block

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OMG. If you just sat through 60 minutes of bullet points you’d be crying too.

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I forgot my

Facebook

password.

Again.

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All I want to do is serve God… and master Excel charting. Is that too much to ask?

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What do you mean RCT’s aren’t the God Standard? Damn. I’ll need to rethink my

evaluation plan.

What do you mean RCT’s aren’t the God Standard? Damn. I’ll need to rethink my

evaluation plan.

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Want more notsofine art?

Twitter: @notsofineart

Tweet your notsofineart creations with hashtag #notsofineart

You can also find our parent company @smartertweeter.

Website: TheSmarterOne.com

There you’ll find a section devoted to Notsofine Art.

There, you can sign up for any of TheSmarterOne newsletters, including one devoted to the week’s notsofine art.

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Please share your notsofine art creations and repin ours.

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