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Using PowerPoint’s cartoon people

December 31, 2022 by Ellen Finkelstein Leave a Comment

One of the newer features of PowerPoint is cartoon people. They’re fun! They are SVG files, like icons. You can resize them and recolor them. You can also ungroup them and edit them like other PowerPoint shapes. Here you see the original black along with a version in which I changed the outline color to […]

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Filed Under: Images Tagged With: cartoons, images, SVG

3 ways to use images

March 13, 2022 by Ellen Finkelstein 5 Comments

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From my perspective, you can use images on a slide in 3 ways: As a background, behind text: The purpose is to make a slide that is essentially all text look better As a supplement to text: The purpose is to help people understand and remember the text As the main focus of the slide, […]

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Filed Under: Backgrounds, Images, Slide layout Tagged With: graphics, how to use images, images, impact, improve slide design, photos, PowerPoint, slide design, visual, ways to use images

Use icons to create a list

January 3, 2022 by Ellen Finkelstein 1 Comment

Research shows that people pay more attention to images than to text, but sometimes you want people to focus on the text, not on an elaborate or complex photo. A nice compromise is to use icons and they are VERY common on slides these days. PowerPoint 365 includes icons in its collection of images (choose […]

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Filed Under: Images Tagged With: icons, lists, slide design

3 techniques for putting less text on your slides

October 18, 2021 by Ellen Finkelstein 2 Comments

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You probably know that creating slides with lots of text on them is a sure sign of “Death by PowerPoint.” Even if your content is valuable and interesting, the text makes it LOOK boring. Also, research has shown that images attract more attention. So the solution is almost always to replace text with images and […]

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Filed Under: Design principles, Images, Shapes & text boxes Tagged With: how to have less text on a slide, remove text from slides

Using PowerPoint’s new illustrations

January 21, 2021 by Ellen Finkelstein 4 Comments

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PowerPoint is adding new types of graphics and expanding existing ones. These are all available in Office 365, because they are constantly being updated. One of the most recent additions is called Illustrations. Here are two examples on a slide… They are in grayscale with a pop of yellow but you can: Easily change the […]

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Filed Under: Images Tagged With: graphics, illustrations, SVG, vector files

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