Dissolve One Image into Another

Dissolves are commonly used in video, but you can create them in PowerPoint, too, using the Fade animation. Some people use the Dissolve slide transition, but the results don’t look very good and you can’t control the timing. Here’s a sample slide:

Dissolve slide transition

This technique shows how to dissolve the first [...]

January 17th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: Images | %COMMENTS('Leave a comment', 'One comment', '% comments', 'Comments are closed')%

Great new collection of PowerPoint 2007 effects and animations

Julie Terberg is a Microsoft PowerPoint MVP (Most Valuable Professional) and one of the top presentation designers around. She is well-known for her incredible animations and special effects, which look as if they were done in Adobe Flash or a high-end animation program. They’re all done in PowerPoint.

She has created a stunning [...]

December 17th, 2008 | Tags: , , , | Category: Animation & transitions, Resources | %COMMENTS('Leave a comment', 'One comment', '% comments', 'Comments are closed')%

Simplicity and understatement

Are you having a hard time deciding on colors or an arrangement for your slides? An easy solution that always looks good is to shoot for simplicity and understatement.

Review one of your recent presentations and do the following:

Remove non-essential elements including distracting images and colors Remove 3D graphics (convert to 2D), [...]

July 11th, 2001 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Design principles | %COMMENTS('Leave a comment', 'One comment', '% comments', 'Comments are closed')%