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Get a designer look with abstract images to create backgrounds for slides and shapes

May 9, 2022 by Ellen Finkelstein 2 Comments

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You can use abstract images to create interesting, textured backgrounds for slides or shapes. For example, Nancy Duarte’s signature slide uses a textured image background. You can see an example here. Here’s an example, using abstract images as a fill for the shapes of a diagram. First, you have to find an abstract image. That’s fairly […]

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Filed Under: Backgrounds, Backgrounds & color, Shapes & text boxes Tagged With: abstract, backgrounds, fills

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

Making text stand out with text formatting techniques

August 22, 2021 by Ellen Finkelstein Leave a Comment

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A presentation style that’s sometimes called the Takahashi or Lessig method, involves putting just a word or two on a slide, usually with very large text. The text is used as a prompt, but also as a graphic. I wrote about it in a short post from 2004, You can create stunning slides using large […]

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Filed Under: Shapes & text boxes, Text & fonts Tagged With: Lessig, Takahashi, text, text formatting, text slides

Use contrast to make your text and colors pop!

May 6, 2021 by Ellen Finkelstein 1 Comment

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​I’ve been working on some training about presentations that are accessible to people with sight and hearing challenges and have learned some techniques that I believe everyone can use. One has to do with increasing contrast between the background (of the slide or a shape) and the text. When you do this, your colors become […]

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Filed Under: Backgrounds & color, Shapes & text boxes Tagged With: accessibility, color contrast, contrast, test for color contrast

How to create a logo in PowerPoint

January 18, 2020 by Ellen Finkelstein 14 Comments

Would you like to create your own logo, product image, or course symbol in PowerPoint in a few minutes — following some easy steps? If so, you’re in luck, just read on. I’m going to show you how to create this logo — and you can customize it in any way you want. A logo […]

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Filed Under: Images, Shapes & text boxes, Text & fonts Tagged With: arch, create a logo, create a logo in PowerPoint, design your own logo, logo, product image, transform

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