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A picture needs to be corrected when it’s appearance is too dark or too bright — and this can happen if the lighting was not proper when you clicked the original picture with your camera. Additionally, you may also want to make some tonal changes to a picture so that it stands apart. In this tutorial you will learn how to make corrections to inserted pictures in terms of their brightness, sharpness, softness, and contrast values — all from within PowerPoint 2013 without having to use an external program!
Learn about the Correction option for pictures in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.
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Within our better charts series, we explore if charts should be animated or not? We also explain why you should stay away from 3D charts. A reader comment ended up being a whole new tutorial that looks at slicing and animating pictures inside PowerPoint
PowerPoint 2013 users can learn about SmartArt, Video and Charts.
And finally, do not miss the new discussions and templates of this week!
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PowerPoint 2013 accepts more video file formats than previous versions, and can do a lot more with videos, including trimming of video clips. However, it also embeds all inserted video clips by default — and this can result in huge presentations that contain huge video files! This ultimately occupies oodles of disk space and may also make PowerPoint work a wee bit slower. To tackle this problem, you can explore the media compression abilities built right inside PowerPoint 2013 — you no longer need any third-party media compression tool since PowerPoint’s native Media Compression options make this task very easy indeed.
Learn how to trim video clips in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.
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When you insert video clips in your presentations, you may find that the video clip inserted may be too long. Or maybe you just need to show part of the video clip, rather than wasting your audience’s time showing them the entire clip. Yes, you can use the Player Controls bar to scrub and play the clip from exactly where you want it to begin. However, scrubbing a clip in front of an audience can appear unprofessional. Another way is to trim the video clip outside PowerPoint in a dedicated video program. You have one more option, and that is to use the Trim Video option within PowerPoint to get the results.
Learn how to trim video clips in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows. .
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Here’s the new, fourth set of animated Gears — we call this one More Gears! Like the earlier series, these come in both animated & non animated versions. The time-consuming process of using Gears and animating them in PowerPoint is now made easy again. You can just copy these gears from the downloaded presentation and directly paste them within your own slides. What could be easier? And what do you get? Not 1, not 2 – but 6 highly detailed gear styles, each of them in so many sizes!
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