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 […]
Create multi-color gradients in PowerPoint
Gradients make effective simple backgrounds and look good in shapes. It’s easy to create gradients in PowerPoint. PowerPoint 2007 and later offer lots of options. Unfortunately, PowerPoint 2003 and earlier versions only allow two colors in a gradient and gives you little control over where the colors change, so I show you a trick to get more interesting […]
Use transparency gradients
You can create some great effects with gradient fills that have variable transparency. Let’s say that you have a side bar image but you want a softer edge. In this slide, the edge of the cookies is sharp. Here I’ve added a white rectangle with a gradient whose transparency changes from 0% to 100% as […]
