I really like Keith Tromer‘s new SoftShadow add-in for PowerPoint. Finally, PowerPoint has soft shadows like Photoshop! Maybe that explains why I gave Keith such a nice quote to put on his site! What I like about SoftShadow is that I don’t need to take my objects to Photoshop and add a nice drop shadow and then get it back to PowerPoint as a PNG. The Soft Shadow add-in does it all inside PowerPoint with one click. Also, all my objects can be restored to their no-shadow look with another click.
There is a trial version that you can download from the pptXTREME site.