Visual Effects Enhancing in PowerPoint Presentations Visual Effects

What's wrong with most PowerPoint Presentations?

Presentation Skills

Presentation Skills Design Skill

Presentation Skills Design Skill Visual Thinking

Presentation Skills Design Skill Visual Thinking Content Mgt.

Bad PowerPoints are sending audiences to sleep

Before & After Before & After

Colour

The Colour Wheel

Gradients allows texture/ tones to be added.

Dark letters against a light background . Light letters against a dark background also work.

Dark letters against a light background . Light letters against a dark background also work. Lots of people can’t read this – and even if they could, it makes your eyes hurt.

Dark letters against a light background . Can’t read the above?! Unless you know how to contrast the colour palette Light letters against a dark background also work. Lots of people can’t read this – and even if they could, it makes your eyes hurt. Other combinations are just as bad!

Space White White

Sample White Design Keep it Clean Simply and Elegant White backgrounds will glare Use images sparingly – but striking

Keep it Clean

Simply and Elegant

White backgrounds will glare

Use images sparingly – but striking

Black Black

Re-colour pictures by using the transparency

Composition

Rule of Thirds

Foreground Middleground Background

Templates

Ideas: Design layouts & Visuals Rules of Thirds

Animated Static

Where do I get Images from? Microsoft Clip Art Google Images iStockphoto

Commercial samples www.templatecentral.com

Type Presentation here

Crop unwanted portions of images Select Image Cropped Image Finished Image

Crop images to create focus x2 of the same Images - Image 1 is 'watermaked' - Image 2 is cropped

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Reflections

By adding shadow and reflection, a shape can be given depth and perspective Before After

Glass & Shine

Transform a flat shape into 3-dimensions with a glass-shine effect

Icons

Original Copy Copy ?

? Original Copy ? Step 1 Step 2 ?

Text & Bullets

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3D Text

"Quotes always look better when they're clear"

REAL SAMPLE

“…Science never solved one problem without creating ten more…” George Bernard Shaw

“…Science never solved one problem without creating ten more…” George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw “…Science never solved one problem without creating ten more…”

Images

Remove background colours

Removing only one colour means gradients are not possible

Creating Polaroids

Autoshapes Autoshapes

3D Shapes / Autoshapes Parallel Perspective

3D Shapes / Autoshapes Parallel Perspective

Perform a PowerPoint Makerover

Picked a MS design template – yuck! And now I’ve inserted a picture – whoopie! Can I improve this slide? Back to basics - a typical slide No more template Creative bullets

Picked a MS design template – yuck!

And now I’ve inserted a picture – whoopie!

Can I improve this slide?

Animation - Motion Paths

Charts

Inserting Charts Direct from PowerPoint vs. Import from Excel Typical Chart

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