Comments on: PowerPoint slide design – adding elegance http://www.speakingaboutpresenting.com/design/powerpoint-slide-design-adding-elegance/ Presentation tips from Olivia Mitchell Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:40:33 +1200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Olivia Mitchell http://www.speakingaboutpresenting.com/design/powerpoint-slide-design-adding-elegance/comment-page-1/#comment-5323 Olivia Mitchell Fri, 21 May 2010 20:03:15 +0000 http://69.89.31.242/~speakin4/?p=40#comment-5323 Hi Craig That's a very clever hack! Thanks for sharing it. And I'm delighted that you're enjoying the blog and that you've found <a href="http://www.speakingaboutpresenting.com/how-to-make-an-effective-powerpoint-presentation/" rel="nofollow">the Guide</a> useful. Olivia Hi Craig
That’s a very clever hack! Thanks for sharing it.

And I’m delighted that you’re enjoying the blog and that you’ve found the Guide useful.

Olivia

]]> By: Craig Hadden http://www.speakingaboutpresenting.com/design/powerpoint-slide-design-adding-elegance/comment-page-1/#comment-5303 Craig Hadden Fri, 21 May 2010 16:34:47 +0000 http://69.89.31.242/~speakin4/?p=40#comment-5303 One really useful tip I've found: With photos that don't quite fill the slide background (e.g. if the signpost photo at the top of your post was square, so it didn't fill the slide's width), usually you can duplicate the photo, flip the duplicate and then butt it against the original to cover the rest of the slide without the trickery being evident to the audience. (The mirrored signpost itself would be invisible to them, off the edge of the slide.) That works well where the photo's background is very subtle (e.g. clear blue sky) but not completely uniform. (Plain white or black in your other 2 photos blends seamlessly with the slide background anyway of course, so no trick needed in those cases.) P.S. Just discovered your blog and love it! Downloaded the free guide yesterday and the 3-question format is a revolution for me! (I'm just digesting how it fits with my current style, modelled from "Winning Presentation in a Day" by Rhonda Abrams, which is a great book & also uses a 3-part approach.) One really useful tip I’ve found: With photos that don’t quite fill the slide background (e.g. if the signpost photo at the top of your post was square, so it didn’t fill the slide’s width), usually you can duplicate the photo, flip the duplicate and then butt it against the original to cover the rest of the slide without the trickery being evident to the audience. (The mirrored signpost itself would be invisible to them, off the edge of the slide.)

That works well where the photo’s background is very subtle (e.g. clear blue sky) but not completely uniform. (Plain white or black in your other 2 photos blends seamlessly with the slide background anyway of course, so no trick needed in those cases.)

P.S. Just discovered your blog and love it! Downloaded the free guide yesterday and the 3-question format is a revolution for me! (I’m just digesting how it fits with my current style, modelled from “Winning Presentation in a Day” by Rhonda Abrams, which is a great book & also uses a 3-part approach.)

]]>