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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

Congratulations to the winner of the “Highlight one part of an image in color” contest!

October 17, 2011 by Ellen Finkelstein Leave a Comment

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Congratulations to Rae Drysdale for the winning entry in the contest. I received several excellent entries, but Rae’s choice of photo made the color really stand out! The photo’s movement is also striking. If you missed the original post explaining how to create this effect, you can see it here.

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Filed Under: Contests Tagged With: black & white, color, grayscale, highlight

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

Find colors for your PowerPoint color scheme (theme colors) with Adobe kuler

April 18, 2009 by Ellen Finkelstein 1 Comment

An important first step in creating a new presentation, one not based on any previous presentation, is to decide on your colors. In PowerPoint 2003, these are called the color scheme. In PowerPoint 2007, these are called the theme colors. See the related tips below for some ideas on how to choose colors. But even […]

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Filed Under: Backgrounds & color Tagged With: color, color scheme, PowerPoint, theme colors

Choose fonts and colors for legibility

July 10, 2002 by Ellen Finkelstein Leave a Comment

Solomon Schneider, a faculty member at Sam Houston State University, in Huntsville, Texas, sent me some guidelines for choosing fonts and color to get the highest text legibility. Color Medium-colored text + medium-colored background = low legibility. To obtain the best legibility, choose either a very light font on a very dark background or vice […]

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Filed Under: Backgrounds & color, Text & fonts Tagged With: audience, background, color, fonts, PowerPoint

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