About using transitions and animations

Transitions are generally the name for the animation … or effect that goes between slides … and animations normally refer to things that are on slides … but you could use those things interchangeably … because so many things like the morph effect … in powerpoint and magic move in Apple's Keynote … they really are a hybrid between animation and transition. … Like many things in life, there are good transitions … and there are perhaps not so good transitions. … I think they're fairly easy to spot, but let's just try … a few out and see if your tasteometer kicks in. … So here comes the first one. … It's like a set of blinds sliding. … I could see where I might use that if I was presenting my … holiday slides to my family for example. … By the way I don't really make powerpoints or presentations … about my holiday slides, even if my brother thinks I do … but there you go, that's another story. … This one's a straight forward thing where the image appears … through the center of a growing hole just there. …