The document discusses various techniques for enhancing visual effects in PowerPoint presentations, including using appropriate color combinations, spacing, composition, templates, images, animation, charts, and 3D effects. It provides tips on issues like readability, focus, and perspective as well as sources for images and examples of before and after slides improved through these techniques.

1. Visual Effects Enhancing in PowerPoint Presentations Visual Effects

2. What's wrong with most PowerPoint Presentations?

3. Presentation Skills

4. Presentation Skills Design Skill

5. Presentation Skills Design Skill Visual Thinking

6. Presentation Skills Design Skill Visual Thinking Content Mgt.

7. Bad PowerPoints are sending audiences to sleep

8. Before & After Before & After

9. Colour

10. The Colour Wheel

11. Gradients allows texture/ tones to be added.

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

13. 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.

14. 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!

15. Space White White

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

17. Black Black

19. Re-colour pictures by using the transparency

20. Composition

21. Rule of Thirds

24. Foreground Middleground Background

26. Templates

29. Ideas: Design layouts & Visuals Rules of Thirds

30. Animated Static

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

32. Commercial samples www.templatecentral.com

33. Type Presentation here

34. Crop unwanted portions of images Select Image Cropped Image Finished Image

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

36. .WMV .gif

37. Reflections

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

43. Glass & Shine

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

46. Icons

47. Original Copy Copy ?

48. ? Original Copy ? Step 1 Step 2 ?

49. Text & Bullets

51. 18 20 24 28 32 36 40 44 48 54 60 66 72 80 88 96 104 112

52. 3D Text

53. "Quotes always look better when they're clear"

54. REAL SAMPLE

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

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

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

58. Images

60. Remove background colours

62. Removing only one colour means gradients are not possible

63. Creating Polaroids

64. Autoshapes Autoshapes

65. 3D Shapes / Autoshapes Parallel Perspective

66. 3D Shapes / Autoshapes Parallel Perspective

67. Perform a PowerPoint Makerover

68. 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

69. Animation - Motion Paths

72. Charts

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

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