by Richard Hansen | Jul 1, 2017 | General, PowerPoint, Slide Design, Time Saving PowerPoint Tips
There is nothing more frustrating than having your beautifully designed PowerPoint slides change to something hideous when copying to another deck. In this post, I will demonstrate a very simple way to keep the current format in PowerPoint when copying slides to...
by Richard Hansen | Nov 28, 2016 | General, PowerPoint, Slide Design
One of the general ideas of a mask is to hide what you do not want seen. We can use the same masking concept on our presentation slides to hide what we don’t want seen. We can also use masking to highlight parts of an image that we do want to feature on our...
by Richard Hansen | Nov 26, 2016 | (VIDEO), General, PowerPoint, Slide Design, Uncategorised
One of my favourite quotes is “Talk low, talk slow and don’t talk too much”. Of course it would not be right if I did not credit the originator of that quote which was the legendary actor John Wayne. As we know when delivering presentations we should...
by Richard Hansen | Oct 30, 2016 | General, PowerPoint, Slide Design, Uncategorised
Anyone who has seen me speak about slide design knows that I have a healthy distaste for text-heavy PowerPoint slides or key points listed in bullet form. The mind sees each letter in a word as a separate element. Therefore text-heavy slides will look like a bunch of...
by Richard Hansen | May 16, 2016 | (VIDEO), General, Slide Design, Uncategorised
One of my favourite ways to display images is bleed them right across the slide filling up the entire screen. This also removes all unwanted background elements making the image the main focus on the screen. However we don’t need to stop at just the edges. We...
by Richard Hansen | Feb 18, 2016 | (VIDEO), General, Slide Design, Uncategorised
Well they don’t really make me vomit but like the ever fading use of clipart they do have some inherent issues. Whilst I do often use stock images in my both my own and client presentations we must be aware of the downside of using stock images. We must also be aware...
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