1 Understanding Microsoft PowerPoint • What is it? • Vector-based graphics program • The graphics it produces are resizable • The colors can be changed easily • The text is always crisp • PowerPoint vs. PhotoShop • Vector vs. Bitmap • Vector • Clipart images are vector • Uses mathematical formulas • Can be ungrouped and re-colored easily • Bitmap • Scanned photographs are bitmap • Uses pixels • Photos can be re-colored, but it takes much more effort
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Understanding Microsoft PowerPoint
• What is it?• Vector-based graphics program
• The graphics it produces are resizable• The colors can be changed easily• The text is always crisp
• PowerPoint vs. PhotoShop• Vector vs. Bitmap
• Vector• Clipart images are vector• Uses mathematical formulas• Can be ungrouped and re-colored easily
• Bitmap• Scanned photographs are bitmap• Uses pixels• Photos can be re-colored, but it takes much more effort
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PowerPoint Strengths
• Easy to learn• Installed on many computers• Easy to edit
• Make changes before, or even during a presentation
• Multiple medias• Text, images, clipart• Graphs, charts• Sound, video
presentations, and your audience can get bored easily
• It will let you create bad slides
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PowerPointWeakness
This program will let you create bad slides!
Slides that produce
‘visual noise’ can be
distracting for your
audience.
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Slide layout
• Make backgrounds dark• It is easier on the eye in a dark room• It is easier to read text if you have bad lighting• Why?• The screen’s natural color –
in any room – with any lighting –….is black!
• Text color matters• Light to dark• The greater the contrast
= the greater the importance
• Text size matters• The bigger the text
= the greater the importance• Don’t make the smallest text, the most important text, most of your audience won’t be able to read it!
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ABC
ABC
Sans-Serif
Serif
Text Issues
• Keep all fonts above 20 pt.• What’s the easiest font to
read?• Suggestions from the pros
• Arial• Century Gothic• Tahoma• Verdana
• What’s the difference?• Sans-Serif• Serif
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Graphic Design Principles
• Proximity• Group related items together• Helps the eye “move” through your slide
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