PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Learn PowerPoint 2010 for Windows: Set Document Resolution

One of PowerPoint’s greatest qualities is that you can get all sorts of content from disparate sources and add them all within one presentation to create a unified document. Pictures are one of the most important content types you add on your slides — however, each picture you insert may have different resolutions — and thus even though you may have sized your picture to look like a small postage stamp on your slide, it may be increasing your file size by several megabytes. You can of course manually compress pictures in your presentation — additionally, you can set the document resolution for any presentation — this option will compress pictures you insert automatically to the default resolution you set.

Learn how to set document resolution in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Pictures, PowerPoint 2010, Tutorials

PowerPoint Concept Slides: Eight Petals Circle

These Eight Petals Circle graphics are part of our Petal Circles series that add stylized tips to your circle shapes. These two tip styles: Rounded and Pointed make your circles look different from conventional segmented circle graphics. They also break the monotony of text heavy slides, and help you explain concepts better to your audiences. Using these circle shapes also convinces your audiences that you care enough about them to make the slides look appealing and comprehensible. What’s more, these shapes are also so much fun to use!

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Tagged as: Design, Graphics, PowerPoint, Presentation Samples

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Texture Fill for Text

Although text in PowerPoint can be with a texture, the appearance of the text depends upon the texture chosen, and how well it contrasts with the slide background. Make sure that the texture used is not too crowded or even multicolored — and as already stated, choose a texture that contrasts with your slide background for the reason of readability.

Learn how to add a texture fill to the selected text in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

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Tagged as: Office for Mac, PowerPoint 2011, Text, Tutorials

Learn PowerPoint 2010 for Windows: Compress Pictures

There is no doubt that a presentation with relevant pictures is more effective than just a plain text presentation. Although pictures enhance the look of your presentation, they can also phenomenally increase the size of your presentation file. PowerPoint 2010 is better in that respect compared to previous versions because it does some compression even if you may not be aware — yet there is an option to make the compression even more effective.

Learn how to compress pictures in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Pictures, PowerPoint 2010, Tutorials

Picture Copyrights: An Iceberg Study

Let’s talk about a fascinating picture of an iceberg by photographer Ralph A. Clevenger. This is a fully copyrighted picture, yet a quick search on Google Images will show that this picture has been used hundreds of times on the web (see Figure 1, below).

Figure 1: Search and you get hundreds of the same results

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Tagged as: Copyrights, Opinion, Pictures, PowerPoint