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Xara Web Designer 11 Premium: Indezine Review

Xara Web Designer 11 Premium enables you to design web pages with no HTML or JavaScript skills. The program is available in two versions: Web Designer and Web Designer Premium. Web Designer Premium offers advanced web design features over and above the features available within Web Designer. Xara Web Designer 11 Premium is the newest version — in comparison to the Web Designer 10 (or earlier) you’ll find plenty of new features and content in Web Designer 11.

Explore Xara Web Designer 11 for creating web page design, with no HTML or JavaScript skills required.

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Tagged as: Graphics, Xara

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Add and Rename Slide Masters

In your presentation, a Slide Master is the element that influences everything — be it the slide background or the fonts used for text. Despite having different layouts, all slides in a presentation share a common look, which is provided by the Slide Master. So how do you know how many Slide Masters your presentation contains? And how do you add another one? In fact, why do you need another Slide Master at all? Whatever your opinion may be, it’s actually quite easy to add a new Slide Master.

Learn how to add and rename Slide Masters in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Masters, PowerPoint 2013, Templates, Tutorials

Creating Slide Backgrounds in Photoshop for PowerPoint

If PowerPoint represents something more than anything else, it is the slide – and while you can use a white slide bereft of any graphic treatment, more often than not you will want to use something else. That’s because the background elements of a slide are a representation of the brand of your company, or even an expression of your personality.

Learn how to create slide backgrounds for PowerPoint in Photoshop.

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Tagged as: Background, Photoshop, PowerPoint, Templates, Themes, Tutorials

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Add Your Logo or Graphic to the Slide Master

You may have observed an omnipresent company logo in many slides — and that raises a question: do you really need to have a company logo on all your slides? First, it takes a fair amount of space. Secondly, the audience knows which company the speaker belongs to since that information is almost always placed on the first slide. Also speakers do introduce themselves and their companies — so do all slides need that extra branding? All these questions are fair, and there are equally fair answers for them. You should certainly add a company logo to your first slide, and then place a more subtle or watermarked logo on the rest of the slides — or even no logo at all. Fortunately, PowerPoint makes it easy to add a logo to all your slides — and then you can make it sure that some slides have no logo at all or even a more understated version of the logo.

Learn how to add logo or graphic to slide master in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Masters, Pictures, PowerPoint 2013, Templates, Tutorials

Learn PowerPoint 2010 for Windows: Working With Picture Slide Layouts

In PowerPoint Slide Layouts are a very useful feature because they let you use a boilerplate arrangement of placeholders repeatedly, resulting in slides that are laid out consistently. And yes, you can also create your own custom Slide Layouts. While very few users create their own custom Slide Layouts, even fewer will create a custom Slide Layout with pictures! That’s regrettable since Picture Slide Layouts can make your slides look so unique. In this tutorial, we will show you how easy it is to create your own Picture Slide Layout in PowerPoint 2010.

Learn how to work with Picture slide layouts in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2010
Tagged as: Masters, Pictures, PowerPoint 2010, Templates, Tutorials