PowerPoint has a great set of special effects, graphics, animations, and template themes. There’s just one problem: Everybody else has the same effects, animations, and template themes that you have. The last thing you want is to look unoriginal.
Click on Create New Theme Colors at the bottom of the drop down bar In the menu that pops up, click the arrow next to Hyperlink - choose the desired color of the link. Under this you will see Followed Hyperlink -select the same color as the above to maintain the previous color (shown below).
Here’s how to make something unique that will help you stand out from the crowd. Redesign an existing template Let’s start with an easy one. On the main menu, select the template titled Crimson Landscape Design slides. The background on this slide is an image. The easiest way to customize it is to select a different image. From the Design tab, click Format Background.
In the Format Background box under Fill, verify that the ‘Picture or texture fill’ button is selected. Under ‘Insert picture from,’ click ‘ Online.’.
In the Insert Pictures dialog, type gradient design in the Bing Image Search box. Highlight your chosen image and click Insert. If you don’t like the selected image, click the Undo icon, press Ctrl+Z, or click Reset Background at the bottom of the Format Background submenu. This straightforward gradient is simple and elegant, but you could add a few more design elements.
From the Insert tab, click Shapes, then select a shape from the graphic shapes list. Add or draw that shape onto the slide, then click the Drawing/Format tab. Select a Shape Fill from the Shape Styles group, then click Gradient from the Colors menu.
Choose a Gradient from the options menu or select More Options. On the Format Shape submenu, click Gradient Fill, then make adjustments to the gradient on the Gradient Stops bar. Design an original template For original templates, the sky’s the limit—but keep these guidelines in mind to avoid common design errors. You can use public domain clip art, stock images, original art and/or photography, company logos and designs, or just create slides from the PowerPoint effects.
Simple is elegant: Too many design elements create clutter that competes with the slideshow’s message. If your design background is limited, browse thru PowerPoint’s templates online for ideas. Design a theme that matches the topic and your company’s corporate identity, not your personal preferences.
Create a color palette for your theme. Your company’s brand colors are good place to start. Open a Blank Presentation. PowerPoint's default is a blank white slide with two lines of text: Title and subtitle. Enter both, then select a font: typeface, size, and color. More design tips:. You can use display fonts for titles, subtitles, headers, and subheads, but not when stacked.
For example, if you use a display font for the title, use a san serif or milder font for the subtitle. The title should never be more than two-thirds larger than the subtitle.larger how?.
2. Continue by selecting a background color. In the Customize group under the Design tab, click Format Background. In the Format Background submenu, select Fill, then choose a color from the color palette.
So far, nice font, boring background. Because the company name is Starlight Tours and the subtitle is First Class Accommodations thru the Tarantula Nebula, a background image of that Nebula would be appropriate, but it might also be too busy.
You can’t resell these photos or print them onto mass produced t-shirts, but single use is okay. Visit the Hubble site and download an image of the Tarantula Nebula. Under the Insert tab, click Pictures, navigate to the Pictures folder, select the nebula you just downloaded, and click Insert.
The image inserts at a reduced size. Notice that when it’s selected, the Ribbon menu displays a new tab (Picture) above the Format tab. Select this tab to display the Format/Picture menu. Next, click the handles around the picture and stretch down and over to fill the slide. If the image is disproportionate, oversize it, then use the Crop button to remove the excess.
You can also click the up and down arrows in the Size group, or select the tiny menu options arrow in the bottom right corner of this group to display the Format Picture submenu. Use the options on this menu to size the image more precisely.
Next, select Send Backward Send to Back from the Arrange group to move the image behind the text. Special effects This starry background is cluttered. Text will get lost in the muddle. But if you must use this image, PowerPoint has several ways to help. First, select the title (then the subtitle). From the Home tab, select Font Bold, Paragraph Center. With the text still selected, click the tiny menu options arrow in the bottom right corner of the Drawing group.
On the Format Shape submenu, select Text Options. Under Text Outline, select Solid line, Color: Blue, Width: 0.75 pt. Click the nebula image to access the Format/Picture tab. Select the tiny menu options arrow in the bottom right corner of this group to display the Format Picture submenu. Once displayed, click the picture icon to display the Picture Corrections submenu. Under Picture Corrections, adjust the sharpness, brightness, and contrast as needed.
Under Picture Color, set the saturation to 50 percent to fade the image and allow the background color to bleed through. This makes the text stand out more. Re-adjust the size of the image under Crop, then crop again if necessary.
Once again, click the nebula image to access the Format/Picture menu. Select the tiny 'menu options' arrow in the bottom right corner of this group to display the Format/Picture submenu. Once displayed, click the Picture icon to display the Picture Corrections/Color/Crop submenu. Under Picture Color, in addition to saturation, you can also change the color tone or recolor the image—not individual objects, but the entire image, like a color screen. Just click the little down arrow in the Recolor box and select a color screen from the list.
Artistic effects Consider using one of PowerPoint’s artistic effects to alter the image further. It’s not Photoshop, but many of these effects are similar to Photoshop’s artistic effects. Select the nebula, click the Format tab, then click Artistic Effects in the Adjust group. Go ahead and experiment. Every designer should provide the client (or the boss) with options. The long list of Artistic effects include: Marker, Chalk, Glowing Edges and more.
My second, third, and fourth choices were Marker, Chalk, and Glass. Best effect plus a border page 4.
After some experimenting, I chose Glowing Edges: not too busy, dark enough for the text to stand out. For the pages with body text, hoever, I needed even less clutter. For the body text pages, insert a dark shape across the center of the nebula page and size it about a half-inch smaller than the page on the top and bottom. Select a black fill and a medium blue outline (match the color used on the font). This gives the illusion of a matching border for the remaining pages.
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Enter the body text for this page, then duplicate this slide for each page in your presentation. It’s easier and faster to type over body text (with defined styles), than start with a new text box.
PowerPoint provides an option to fill any shape with a solid fill color easily. But what if you want a specific color to be filled? Maybe you need to use specific colors that are part of your company's corporate identity.
In that case, you will need to get an RGB value of that color. So what is RGB?
RGB stands for Red, Green, and Blue, and each of these three colors possesses a value within the. Let's now imagine that you have a particular RGB value that you want to use as a fill for any shape; follow the steps below to learn how to add a rectangle of the color. The color provided to us has the following RGB values. R G B Swatch Cyan 0 255 255 Follow these steps to explore more:. on your slide in, as shown in Figure 1. Figure 1: Rectangle being inserted. Right-click the Rectangle and choose the Format Shape option from the resultant contextual menu, as shown highlighted in red within Figure 2.
Figure 2: Format Shape option within the right-click contextual menu. This brings up the Format Shape dialog box, as shown in Figure 3, below. Make sure you select the Fill option (highlighted in red within Figure 3) on the sidebar. On the right side of Format Shape dialog box select the Solid tab, as shown highlighted in blue within Figure 3. Figure 3: Format Shape dialog box. Now, click the Color button (highlighted in red within Figure 4) to bring up the Color drop-down menu, as shown in Figure 4. Within the Color drop-down menu, select the More Colors option (highlighted in blue within Figure 4).
Figure 4: More Colors option. Tip: Learn more about Solid Fills in our tutorial.
This bring up the Mac OS X Color picker, as shown in Figure 5. Within Colors dialog box, click the Show More Options button, as shown highlighted in red within Figure 5.
Figure 5: Mac OS X Color picker. This brings up more options within the Mac OS X Color picker. Now, click the Color Sliders button, as shown highlighted in red within Figure 6. Figure 6: Colors Sliders button. Figure 7, below shows the options within the Colors Sliders.
Click on the Gray Scale Slider option (highlighted in red within Figure 7). Figure 7: Options within Colors Sliders. This brings up a drop-down menu, as shown in Figure 8.
Within the drop-down menu select the RGB Sliders option, shown highlighted in red within Figure 8. Figure 8: RGB Sliders option. In Figure 9, below you can see the RGB Sliders activated within the Mac OS X Color picker. Now, change the RGB values to match the RGB values for the color Cyan, that you saw previously on this page.
In Figure 9 you can see the changed RGB values (highlighted in red). Then, click the OK button. Figure 9: RGB values changed within the Mac OS X Color picker.
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This will take you back to Format Shape dialog box, here click the OK button. Your Rectangle shape will be filled with the color Cyan as you can see in Figure 10. Figure 10: Rectangle's color changed to Cyan. Save your presentation often. You can similarly use RGB values everywhere within PowerPoint.