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Julie Terberg has written a great blog post about creating picture placeholders. A placeholder is an element in a slide layout. The secret here is to use any shape, even a custom shape, to define the shape of the placeholder. By using this technique, you can create very unique slides. Read more here. Ellen [...] A reader wrote me the following: I import graphics from InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop. I say import, but sometimes I do copy/paste out of indesign…a NO-NO i’m sure. Anyway, the deck looks great. I send it out to everyone — they make any last minute changes and sometimes send back for me to approve. [...] If you don’t know or have other graphics software, you can use PowerPoint — and many people do. It’s not high end, but if your needs are simple, the fact that you know and have it is a great plus. PowerPoint 2007 improved the graphics engine and you can add many more effects, such as soft edges, beveled edges, and soft shadows… [...] PowerPoint 2007 and 2010 have a feature that makes creating similar slides a snap: Change picture. You can duplicate a slide and easily change its picture without deleting the old one or fiddling with the side or placing. This feature is ideal for creating product brochures and facilitates customizing presentations for multiple customers. Here [...] You can use PowerPoint as a graphics program — and many people do. It’s not high end, but if your needs are simple, the fact that you know and have it is a great plus. PowerPoint 2007 improved the graphics engine and you can add many more effects, such as soft edges, beveled edges, [...] John Ringold e-mailed me asking how to enlarge part of an image that is encircled within an oval. Here’s a slide with a map on Long Island. The idea is to magnify the section inside the oval. a map on Long Island I came up with two techniques. Contest! If you can [...] PowerPoint can create shadows that follow the contour of objects in an image. Here is an example (you can download this background at my Portfolio/Backgrounds page): sample background Here you see a close-up of the big tulip: close-up Do you see how the shadow is contoured around the shape of the [...] Sometimes you may want to edit a diagram or AutoShape in a way that PowerPoint doesn’t allow. For example, you may have created a complex diagram, such as the flowchart you see here (or any combination of shapes and text). a complex diagram Now you need to make the entire diagram smaller [...] If you have a presentation with many images, you may find that it gets too large to e-mail and may even freeze when you try to deliver. Two causes of this problem are: BMP image files (which are very large) or JPG photos taken at very high resolution Images on backgrounds or the slide [...] |
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