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Xara Designer Pro X11: Indezine Review

Creating graphics is not a cakewalk, but that need not dissuade aspiring designers — especially since many programs now include more intuitive and easy to use abilities that can allow anyone to create awesome quality graphics. Xara Designer Pro X11, the newest version of a well-known graphic program includes all the illustration, photo editing, DTP and web design features you may need.

Explore Xara’s Designer Pro X11, a program that has amazing graphics abilities.

Filed Under: Reviews
Tagged as: Graphics, Xara

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Working with HSL Colors

Assuming someone has provided you with an HSL (Hue, Saturation, and Luminosity) value of a color, and asked you to add a rectangle of that color to a slide in PowerPoint 2013, then how do you proceed? Let’s also explore another scenario. What if you have started with a color that’s close enough to what you need, but it’s not the exact one. Maybe you need it to be a little less saturated? Again, you will benefit by working with the HSL color model rather than the RGB model.

Learn about how to work with HSL colors in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2013
Tagged as: Color, PowerPoint 2013, Tutorials

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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Tagged as: Ezine, Indezine, News, PowerPoint

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.

Filed Under: Charts and Diagrams
Tagged as: Design, Graphics, PowerPoint

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.

Filed Under: Color
Tagged as: Color, PowerPoint, Tutorials