PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Color Theory Basics

Color Theory is a set of principles used to create harmonious color combinations. Color relationships can be visually represented with a color wheel — the color spectrum wrapped onto a circle. According to color theory, harmonious color combinations use any two colors opposite each other on the color wheel, any three colors equally spaced around the color wheel forming a triangle, or any four colors forming a rectangle (actually, two pairs of colors opposite each other). The harmonious color combinations are called color schemes – sometimes the term ‘color harmonies’ is also used. Color schemes remain harmonious regardless of the rotation angle.

Leran about color theory, a set of principles used to create harmonious color combinations.

Filed Under: Color
Tagged as: Color, Color Models, Guest Post

Utility Download: WinPointer 3

Back when we released WinPointer version 1, we were looking for a simple way to enhance PowerPoint and other presentations. With the original version, it was easy to highlight certain key areas of a screen to make a point, or for emphasis. Version 2 brought more functionality and a switch from Visual Basic to Delphi. But our users ended up finding additional uses for WinPointer, including using it to annotate screens to send to others and even to help with documentation and canned presentations. Now with WinPointer 3, we’ve added in new functionality that makes it simple to deliver annotated screens to others via e-mail, or even to create AVI-style movies of your annotations and then send them to others for playback.

Read more on the PC Magazine site.

Filed Under: Companion Programs
Tagged as: Annotate, Companion

The Jim Endicott Interview

Jim Endicott is a nationally-recognized consultant, designer, speaker specializing in professional presentation messaging, design and delivery. Jim has been a Jesse H. Neal award-winning columnist for Presentations magazine with his contributions to the magazine’s Creative Techniques column. Jim has also contributed presentation-related content in magazines like Business Week, Consulting and Selling Power as well as a being a paid contributor for a number of industry-related websites. In this interview, Jim discusses PowerPoint, presentation training and more.

In this interview, Jim talks about his design agency, certifications in presentation design, and more.

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Tagged as: Interviews, Jim Endicott, Presenting

The Chris Ferrone Interview

Chris Ferrone, Managing Partner of Matton Images LLC, a complete royalty free resource, has worked in the stock photo industry since 1987. Chris is also President of Retrofile, which licenses rights-managed and royalty free vintage stock imagery world-wide through a variety of agents and other distribution channels.

He is also currently the President of the North American stock photo industry trade association, the Picture Archive Council of America. In this interview, Chris discusses “royalty free” and usage of images in PowerPoint.

In this interview, Chris talks about Matton, royalty-free, and use of clip media content in PowerPoint.

Filed Under: Interviews
Tagged as: Clip Media, Interviews, PowerPoint

Making Your Point More Powerful

As a presenter, I like using PowerPoint. Although I don’t like having the slides in a fixed sequence, and I worry that dimming the lights will give my audience unneeded assistance in falling asleep, I do like the way PowerPoint enables me to emphasize and illustrate my points with highlighted text, graphs, and photos. There’s something about those big, fat, color letters that makes the words more interesting.

Dr. Stephen Wilbers explains about how you can make your point more powerful.

Filed Under: Guest Posts
Tagged as: Guest Post, Stephen Wilbers