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PowerPoint and Presenting News: August 4, 2015

You’ve all seen matrix diagrams? Now look at another perspective and explore something similar in a fortune teller origami! You can then read an exclusive interview with Yury Uskov of iSpring who talks about direct YouTube export from PowerPoint. And Dave Paradi, PowerPoint MVP looks at the larger picture when he wonders why spreadsheets end up on slides?

All PowerPoint users will enjoy learning more about the HSL color model with more detailed sections on both Luminosity and Saturation. We will explore Hue next week. And we have some retrospective stuff too — PowerPoint 2003 for Windows users can explore editing, adding, and deleting Points in shapes. Finally, don’t miss the new discussions and templates of this week!

Read Indezine’s PowerPoint and Presenting News.

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PowerPoint Infographics: Bucket Diagrams with Money

Bucket diagrams are so expressive, useful, and direct in the message they provide. Yes, these diagrams have everything to do with buckets and the money they contain. While the buckets themselves represent a source or destination, the money represents the financial liquidity. Buckets show items in distribution, they represent the flow of things or display collections of items. An empty bucket can indicate the capacity to which it can be filled. A bucket pouring money in another could represent the distribution. You can have buckets that are full, empty, or somewhat full. And you can move the money from one bucket to another!

Download and use these bucket graphics.

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Color Models: Hue in HSL

Colors can be darker or lighter: and this in color terms is called Luminosity. Color can also be saturated (vibrant) or desaturated (neutralized). Desaturation can be done to a lesser extent or more, and when it happens to the maximum extent possible, that’s the same as completely neutralizing the color altogether. Think about converting a colored picture to grayscale and you will understand what may be happening! This property of color is called Saturation. Now beyond Luminosity and Saturation lies the Hue of color. You can have a blue that’s dark or light, and even vibrant or neutralized. But you can also have a green, a red, an orange, a yellow, or any other color with those same attributes. This red, green, yellow, or blue property is nothing else but the Hue of the color.

Explore the role that Hue plays in the world of color.

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Color Models: Saturation in HSL

Color is a fascinating subject; a subject that evokes enough creativity and pickles the minds of many. If we were to pause looking at color as a creative subject for just a brief amount of time, we would be able to explore it from a different perspective, the perspective of science! This color science will open new avenues for us to understand why colors behave in certain ways. For example, why do some colors look more vibrant than others? What is this quality that makes them shout? And why are some colors so muted? what makes them so understated and well-behaved? Well, the quality of color that makes all this shouting and mellowing happen is called Saturation, and believe it or not, it has everything to do with the color grey. We will learn more about what grey does to colors in this tutorial.

Explore how Saturation works within the HSL color model.

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PowerPoint Infographics: Fortune Teller Origami, Matrix Diagram

You’ve all seen matrix diagrams – and these make it possible for you to explain related and dependent concepts. However, we decided to look at the matrix diagram from another perspective and found something similar in a fortune teller origami!

Download and use these Matrix slides.

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Tagged as: Design, Diagrams, Graphics, PowerPoint