BrightCarbon

MAY 29, 2020

When creating presentations in PowerPoint it’s important to have a template to ensure design consistency, but it takes time, effort and skill to create high quality templates and masters. Of course, there are lots of places you can get free PowerPoint templates, but are they any good?

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

a plan to create an awesome PowerPoint presentation about, among other emotions, anger. PowerPoint won’t allow you to adjust the transparency of a photo so you'll need to scrap that plan.   Insert your photo onto your slide (Insert > Pictures). by AJ Walther, COTP. You have a plan. Friend, I just knew. 

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eLearning Brothers

JUNE 22, 2017

Because PowerPoint has been around for such a long time (almost 28 years), Microsoft has been able to create features and integrate options that allow presenters and now some eLearning professionals to create content effectively. So let’s bring back the dead and take a look at 6 features that have gone under the rug in PowerPoint.

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BrightCarbon

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

In this post we look at the mind-bending world of Morph and how to use it create stunning design effects in PowerPoint. The new morph transition in PowerPoint is pretty cool. You can achieve this with an animation effect, but the animation would only happen once the transition is complete, so the timing would be off.

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Mike Taylor

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Last Week’s Most Clicked Learning Styles Are More Toxic Than We Thought News & Notes BrightSlide: Supercharge Your PowerPoint Design Productivity Ever feel like working in PowerPoint takes forever to do what you want? Want text and pictures to line up perfectly? He shows you all the cool tricks BrightSlide can do.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

AUGUST 24, 2014

by AJ Walther    In my three-hour mini session on  Optimizing PowerPoint for eLearning and Design , I discuss how to create your own eLearning characters using PowerPoint. I was not alone in creating my own PowerPoint eLearning characters! Create your own character in PowerPoint and  send it to me.

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

I usually get something from clients to read and review: PowerPoint presentations, policy guidelines, technical documentation, etc. Are there more pictures of problems? For the example in this post, I received a PowerPoint presentation used in their current training. Name of] checklist–how much do they need to do?

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BrightCarbon

AUGUST 9, 2019

This two-part series will teach you how to make an effective infographic in PowerPoint. Humans have used pictures to communicate for thousands of years – from pictograms on cave walls to eggplant emojis – so it’s no surprise that we often use infographics to share information. Step 1: Preparing your canvas.

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Integrated Learnings

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Many people don’t consider PowerPoint as a capable graphics editor since its main function is to create presentation aids. Perhaps this is because older versions of PowerPoint (2003 or below) didn’t have as many graphic editing options as never versions (2007 or higher). Basic effects (such as drop shadow and soft edges).

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

MARCH 29, 2012

by AJ George  A recent  question in the Microsoft Office forums  inquired about the process of animating a picture in PowerPoint so that it came onto the slide piece by piece--like a puzzle. The original answer referenced this tutorial:  Puzzle Pictures in PowerPoint. Start PowerPoint.

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KnowledgeAnywhere

JANUARY 31, 2021

In reality, however, eLearning is a highly effective style for learners of all types. Some people have a mental picture of eLearning that looks something like a television show. In others, you can often incorporate your existing materials to create highly effective training modules based on your company’s individual needs.

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eLearningArt

JULY 22, 2019

Apply the graphic novel effect to a person. Apply the Graphic Novel Effect to a Person. Insert the image into your PowerPoint file. From the dropdown menu, select Format Picture. In the Format Picture panel, click on the Picture icon. Open the Picture Color dialog. Open the Picture Color dialog.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

AUGUST 30, 2012

by AJ George  When you give a PowerPoint presentation live, what you say verbally is more important, probably more interesting, and certainly more fleshed out than the few words or pictures on the slides. You could, of course, record a voiceover in PowerPoint, but maybe you have a cold and your voice isn't up to par.

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BrightCarbon

MARCH 4, 2020

Video is a great way to engage your audience in a more engaging, dynamic, or emotive way than can be achieved with standard PowerPoint alone. There are a couple of options available if you want to embed video in PowerPoint. How to embed a video in PowerPoint. Once selected, click Insert and you’ll insert video into PowerPoint.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

APRIL 18, 2012

by AJ George  During a previous article on  Perfecting Motion Paths , I made a short PowerPoint video illustrating the final motion path animation.   Did you know that this can be accomplished in PowerPoint by using video bookmarks to trigger animations? Here's how: Add a Bookmark to a Video.

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Association eLearning

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Is not : Cheerful background music and flashy animations with sound effects and lots of pictures. A course that isn’t any fun might be a narrated PowerPoint full of animated bullet points that the learner just sits through. Interactive. Innovative/ Creative/ Different. All of the above. These words get thrown around a lot.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

APRIL 5, 2012

by AJ George  Last week  I showed you how to animate a picture in PowerPoint so that it came in as a puzzle, piece by piece.    Click the more arrow on the last animation effect and choose  Timing. That was cool. How to Make an Animated Puzzle Look More Realistic. .  

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eLearning Brothers

AUGUST 6, 2010

Sometimes it is very effective to add people pictures to your online courses. Below are a few simple examples and layouts for using cut-out people pictures in eLearning. The pictures are copied into PowerPoint using pre-build eLearning course styles.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Over the last two weeks I've introduced PowerPoint 2010's Shape Union and Shape Subtract tools. Now I'd like to give a quick example of how you could incorporate this into your eLearning projects made with PowerPoint. Select Picture or texture fill and navigate to where the picture you would like to use is located.

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Integrated Learnings

OCTOBER 5, 2011

PowerPoint gets a bad reputation from all the mind numbing presentations millions have been subjected to. This has less to do with PowerPoint's limitations and more to do with a lack of creativity on the part of many presenters. PowerPoint is also useful for creating cool visual effects outside of a presentation.

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Hurix Digital

OCTOBER 2, 2023

This post discusses some of the top pre-press services tips required for effective print publishing. 10 Pre-Press Tips for Effective Print Publishing Pay Attention to the Quality and Size Of the Images One of the common mistakes in pre-press printing is the selection of the wrong resolution for a picture.

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eLearning Brothers

JUNE 16, 2015

PowerPoint got an unfair reputation a few years back. It seemed like everyone was trying to blame PowerPoint for poorly created eLearning material. To get you better prepared for creating content in PowerPoint, here’s eight things you must never do with graphics in PowerPoint. Honey I Shrunk the Picture.

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Integrated Learnings

MARCH 11, 2012

Storyboarding for an eLearning course can be a very effective way to lay out the overall look and feel of your course, as evidenced by this post by Donna Bryant. I recently attended a webinar presented by Trivantis, the company that owns the eLearning development software Lectora , on effective storyboarding. By Dean Hawkinson.

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Wizcabin

MARCH 29, 2021

Furthermore, for you to achieve this, you need to have an effective eLearning storyboard in place. Are you worried and thinking of how you can create effective eLearning storyboards? This will include telling you exactly what it is and how you can create an effective one for your eLearning course. What is a storyboard?

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eLearningArt

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

PowerPoint comes with some really cool picture effects that you can apply to your images. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create my favorite 5 effects when I work with background images: pencil sketch, blur, cutout, photocopy, and also some recolorization effects. There is now these artistic effects.

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iSpring Solutions

AUGUST 31, 2016

The design of your PowerPoint presentation is often underestimated. Everyone knows the saying, ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’, however in PowerPoint-land it seems to be quite the contrary. ‘A A thousand words are worth a picture’ seems a more fitting slogan. A missed opportunity! Read more ».

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eLearningArt

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

PowerPoint artistic effects are a powerful tool to create contrast and add visual interest. In this tutorial, I show you several of my favorite effects, and combinations of effects, with step-by instructions. So that can be a really useful effect. Here I did a line are effect and colorized it. Video Script.

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TechSmith Camtasia

AUGUST 6, 2012

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to use PowerPoint to create an artsy, collage style title clip… …and add a little animation applied to it via the Camtasia Studio Visual Properties! This tutorial takes a pictorial approach to show how my title clip image was created in PowerPoint. Add A Background. Select an image.

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eLearning Brothers

MAY 22, 2015

We’ve all heard the phrase, “a picture is worth a thousand words.” We always recommend finding a way to create an image that engages learners and effectively communicates a message. They are more than just a simple picture of a person or an office. Lets take a quick look. Another graphic is a pipe graphic.

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BrightCarbon

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

PowerPoint gives people a lot of freedom,​ but in a large organisation this can be more of a curse than a blessing. They’re probably amazing at their day-to-day design or marketing work, but PowerPoint? Unfortunately, without a proper PowerPoint template, presentations can be a bit of a mess. That’s not their specialty.

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eLearning Brothers

AUGUST 6, 2010

Sometimes it is very effective to add people pictures to your online courses. Below are a few simple examples and layouts for using cut-out people pictures in eLearning. The pictures are copied into PowerPoint using pre-build eLearning course styles.

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DigitalChalk eLearning

JULY 4, 2013

Why PowerPoint? It seems that everywhere you go in the eLearning world you run into PowerPoint. Many of you are already using PowerPoint in the classroom, so why not repurpose that presentation for your online courses? Add visuals with easy picture-editing tools. Organize and print your slides more effectively.

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eLearningArt

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

I recently created a photo slideshow (using PowerPoint) of my dad’s life-sized chess set sculpture that’s at Facebook (Go Dad!). I found that PowerPoint was a surprisingly powerful slideshow creation tool. Add pan and zoom “Ken Burns” effect. Save the PowerPoint slideshow as a video that you can upload to YouTube.

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BrightCarbon

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Saying that images are key tools for visual communication may seem obvious, but it’s all too easy to fall into the trap of using pretty pictures in a presentation simply because they’re pretty. No matter how well it tells your story, if a picture is grainy, it will distract your audience. Technique 1: The faded effect.

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Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 16, 2011

A lot of rapid elearning hinges on PowerPoint. That means your success building courses is influenced by how well you know PowerPoint. To help you learn more about PowerPoint I pulled together a solid list of PowerPoint resources. 5 PowerPoint tips essential for effective rapid elearning. Use Drawing Guides.

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BrightCarbon

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

So, ensuring your slides are more accessible will improve the effectiveness of your presentation for everyone. Explore PowerPoint’s Accessibility tab. PowerPoint has some native accessibility tools that you can use to make your slides more accessible. Use legible fonts. 2) Right click on an object then select Edit Alt Text.

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Rapid eLearning

DECEMBER 28, 2010

With as many PowerPoint questions that I get, it’s a good thing that over the past year or so the elearning community has created about 300 PowerPoint tutorials. I also included a free PowerPoint elearning template to celebrate the holidays and a great 2010! Click to download the free PowerPoint template.

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