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Video tutorial: Create a theme in PowerPoint from scratch

June 22, 2015 by Ellen Finkelstein 2 Comments

In my clients’ presentations that we make over (usually together), I see a lot of themes and slide masters that aren’t well prepared — sometimes not prepared at all. Setting up the theme and slide master, while it might seem time consuming, is actually a time saver because you avoid having to fiddle with each […]

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Highlight one part of an image in color

September 25, 2011 by Ellen Finkelstein 4 Comments

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Highlighting a part of a grayscale image in color really makes it stand out! Here are the steps: Find a photo that you want to use and insert it. Select the photo, then copy and paste it to duplicate it. Select the original photo and choose Format tab> Color and choose the first swatch (Saturation […]

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Filed Under: Backgrounds & color, Contests, Images Tagged With: background, color, image, photo

6 steps to create a quick PowerPoint makeover

April 6, 2011 by Ellen Finkelstein 2 Comments

This past month, I did two makeovers–one for a long-time friend who was presenting at an academic conference and the other for a business partner. Since I wasn’t getting paid, I went through them fairly quickly and by the time I had finished both, I realized that I had a simple system that I could […]

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Filed Under: Backgrounds & color, Charts, tables & diagrams, Design principles Tagged With: background, makeover, theme

Remove an image background in PowerPoint

June 24, 2010 by Ellen Finkelstein 15 Comments

One of the features of PowerPoint 2010 and later is the ability to remove the background of an image. This is different from making one color in the background transparent, which you can do in earlier versions. (I describe that process in a tip, “Cool contour shadows.”) PowerPoint 2010 lets you specify which parts of […]

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Create a changeable radial gradient background theme

May 24, 2010 by Ellen Finkelstein 2 Comments

I’ve mentioned before (here) that you can create a theme in PowerPoint 2007 that changes as you change the theme colors. This gives you lots of flexibility to create a great background in many circumstances. For example, you can change the background to the branding colors of a potential client is you give sales presentations. […]

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Filed Under: Downloads Tagged With: background, Design, gradient

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