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Dissolve One Image into Another

January 17, 2009 by Ellen Finkelstein 21 Comments

Dissolves are commonly used in video, but you can create them in PowerPoint, too, using the Fade animation. Some people use the Dissolve slide transition, but the results don’t look very good and you can’t control the timing. Here’s a sample slide: This technique shows how to dissolve the first image into a second one […]

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Filed Under: Images Tagged With: effects, PowerPoint, slides

Simplicity and understatement

July 11, 2001 by Ellen Finkelstein Leave a Comment

Are you having a hard time deciding on colors or an arrangement for your slides? An easy solution that always looks good is to shoot for simplicity and understatement. Review one of your recent presentations and do the following: Remove non-essential elements including distracting images and colors Remove 3D graphics (convert to 2D), unless they’re […]

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Filed Under: Design principles Tagged With: background, Design, effects, gradient, PowerPoint

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