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A quick way to design better photo slides–the 3-side rule

Here’s a quick way to improve the design of slides that include some text and a photo. This type of slide is very common. But it doesn’t look very striking.

Here’s the principle: Make the photo touch 3 sides of the slide. When you do this, your slide will look bolder and clearer. [...]

How to add design flair with a “belly band”

Sometimes, a simple design secret can dramatically improve your slides. A belly band is such a secret. Well, it really isn’t a secret to designers, because designers use them all the time (just look in any magazine), but non-designers don’t know about it.

A belly band is just a band of color that holds [...]

Learn about visual theory as it applies to slides

Visualogy is a new blog by a friend of mine, fellow PowerPoint MVP Glenna Shaw. She’s brilliant. She analyzes principles that scientists have discovered about how we see the world and applies them to slide design.

Try her interactive lesson on The Gestalt of Slides. It’s amazing, both intellectually and technically.

Ellen Finkelstein can train you or the presenters in your organization to create high-impact, engaging, professional presentations for training, sales, business, or education. For more information, please click here.

Transparency gradients-an update

I’m working on my upcoming webinar, High-Impact Slide Design for Non-Designers, and one technique that I’m covering is transparency gradients. I’m explaining how to use them for a simple bottom bar on a slide and also how to create belly bands. (What, you don’t know what belly bands are?)

I realized that my tip [...]

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