We know communicating through effective visuals is important, but when you’re faced with a blank slide, where do you start? BrightCarbon’s graphic design experts have come to your rescue, sharing their expertise on PowerPoint design whether you’re a pro, or just looking for some quick hacks.
Read on to find an entire library of hacks, suggestions, and inspiration on all things PowerPoint design. From everything you need to know about typography, to how hierarchy affects the way you lay your slides out, or just some great tips on adding some easy design touches to make your presentations pop, it’s all here.
PowerPoint does many things well, but typography isn’t one of them. I’ll walk you step-by-step through techniques to get it to play ball. Be warned – SERIOUSLY advanced PowerPoint functionality follows...
Use this quick tutorial to make images transparent in PowerPoint, regardless of which version of the program you are using.
We’re often asked whether it’s possible to ‘cut out’ images in PowerPoint. Well, the good news is that it is, and the even better news is that we've written a How-To guide to show you how it’s done.
For those of you with PowerPoint 2016 and an Office 365 subscription, you may have noticed that the latest update bestowed upon you a new transition—Morph. Though unassuming, this feature possesses great power. Let's take a look at what it can do.
When creating presentations it can be easy to go a little overboard. We feel like we need to cram in as much information as possible. Creating slides with barely any blank space left bombarded with text, images and icons. Here are five presentation design tips to help you keep your presentations simple and clean, allowing you to tell a powerful and effective story.
There are two types of people in the world: those that use PowerPoint animation, and those that don’t. Read on to find out how to strike the right balance between too much and too little animation in your presentations.
Are you frustrated by the wheel animation in PowerPoint? Do you want it to animate anti-clockwise, or from a different starting point? Look no further.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past 5 years, you’ll likely have seen the use of colourful icons punctuating texts, tweets, emails, adverts. It seems these little pictures are becoming a weighty force in how we communicate. What does this mean for language? And most importantly, what does it have to do with PowerPoint presentations?!
I’m no designer, but I have had my fair share of painting classes and they’ve affected the way I think about color and in turn, the way I think about making slides. Color theory is one of the foundational concepts in fine arts, but it also has great relevance in many other areas, including presentations. Let's take a look at how color can help improve your next presentation.
A major problem that people have when creating presentations is a lack of fluidity and cohesiveness between slides. Not only do smooth transitions make the deck more aesthetically appealing, but they also remove interruptions in the flow of information, which can give an audience an opportunity to tune out. Let's discuss some transition techniques from a basic to a more advanced skill level.
When designing presentations it can be easy to get swallowed up by the desire to exercise that design trick you’ve been dying to use, or to use white space in a quirky designer-y way; it is, after all, part of the nature of a designer to create interesting, beautiful things. What can be tricky, however, is to keep in mind how a person might absorb the information onscreen...
As a designer that works in the field of presentation, I am constantly on the lookout for inspiration and new ways of thinking to further advance my presentation skills. Inspiration is all around, one of my favourite forms of ‘presentation’ are movies; specifically the title credits of a movie.
How marvellous that the recent versions of Office automatically embed videos into PowerPoint instead of linking them. And how frustrating when you bundle up your multimedia presentation and someone else reports that the videos don’t play on their PC. This is an issue we’ve come across many times over the years, and it can be very tricky and time-consuming to troubleshoot, so we’ve developed a little tool to help.
Join the BrightCarbon mailing list for monthly invites and resources
Tell me more!
