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Create a mood or duotone look in PowerPoint

August 18, 2018 by Ellen Finkelstein Leave a Comment

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Color can have a powerful effect on your audience. While you need to be cognizant that colors mean different things in different cultures, you can use color to influence your audience’s mood and feeling about your message. Or you can just create a fun feeling with one color or indicate a change in mood by […]

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Filed Under: Backgrounds & color, Images, Shapes & text boxes Tagged With: color, colored overlays, create a mood, duotone, emotion, mood, overlay, semi-transparent overlays

5 principles for easier and faster slide creation

June 9, 2017 by Ellen Finkelstein 2 Comments

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I recently made over some webinar slides for a client and I can honestly say that the slides were the most messed up of any I’d ever seen. It wasn’t the content; it was the way the slides were created. Now, my client was a PowerPoint newbie, so it wasn’t really her fault. In fact, she […]

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Filed Under: Backgrounds & color, Design principles Tagged With: backgrounds, faster slides, template

Working with multi-speaker presentations

March 19, 2017 by Ellen Finkelstein Leave a Comment

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I just finished work for a client on a multi-speaker presentation. It was a presentation that will be given to nurses at a nursing school and I thought I’d share my experiences with you. It’s quite a challenge when you get several presentations from different presenters and have to turn them into one, coherent presentation. […]

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Filed Under: Backgrounds & color, Slide layout Tagged With: multi-speaker, multip-presenter

I’m redesigning ellenfinkelstein.com! What does rebranding mean for my presentation design?

September 28, 2015 by Ellen Finkelstein 1 Comment

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Yay! I just hired a great website designer and I’m already excited. We’ve almost settled on 4 colors plus tints (we’re still discussing the dark blue shade) and we’ve chosen a WordPress theme. There will also be a new header. While this blog has been done in WordPress for years, the home page and a number […]

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Filed Under: Backgrounds & color, Design principles Tagged With: bands, branding, layouts, tiles, website

Apply a slide master to a presentation

May 18, 2014 by Ellen Finkelstein 28 Comments

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I recently received this question. “I have a power point presentation (created in 2007 and recently moved into 2010) that I want to change the master slide with a new one my designer gave me. It was given to me as a regular slide and I want to make it a master slide so all […]

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Filed Under: Backgrounds & color Tagged With: Design, master, template, theme

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