August 21, 2013
The secret to making slides that pop is color contrast. Watch this video showing how to select and modify colors to improve a slide’s appearance. […]
September 6, 2012
What do you do when you have a picture that is tall and leaves a lot of space on your wide PowerPoint slide? Here’s an artistic […]
April 9, 2012
How do you crop around an image, removing the background? Especially when the shape you want to keep is not a regular circle, square or triangle? […]
April 2, 2012
Here’s a clever slide transition you might find useful. Part of the image stays in focus while everything else around it becomes blurry. (Here’s how to […]
February 28, 2012
In a previous video, I showed you white lines in PowerPoint are printed as black lines. And I showed you a workaround. Then presentation designer Krzysztof […]
November 27, 2011
So you’ve created a great-looking slide. But it may not look the same when they are printed as handouts. PowerPoint especially has trouble with white lines, […]
August 5, 2011
You can build pyramid shapes using SmartArt, but there are some limitations to SmartArt I don’t like: can’t use other shapes (eg. circle, hexagon), text pop-up […]
June 6, 2011
Sloppy slides are like the used car salesman with the bad hair combover, rumpled suit and ketchup stains on his tie. You don’t know if you […]
April 18, 2011
Textured backgrounds give your slides more personality. Here’s how to create them yourself, using free images available online. Also see this post on textured backgrounds by […]