Subtle textures

Subtle textures … monitors are getting Retina-like resolutions, it becomes possible to add a tiny, tiny texture to …

Experimenting with "real" textures

Experimenting with "real" textures … ). Do not forget to compress your images before saving. High-resolution textures can consume a lot of … every image that is not real), I find new inspiration in textures of real-world materials (there …

Text balance

Text balance … Shapes, their sizes, and the layout grid set the balance of a slide. But text as well and is often … a sentence break halfway the page 3 boxes in a row, 2 with little text, one crammed with characters … Flipping the rows and columns of a table Using a different shape (circles and long text do not go …

Richer color textures for presentation design?

power it should be possible to offer much more complex color textures to the presentation designer as … well. Textures that go beyond the "plasticy", shiny, and glass-like surfaces that are available now. … into the dress gives some clues about the answer. Van Eyck added bits of yellow and paint texture … Richer color textures for presentation design? … textures. (Huge image here). How to recreate this fabulous green (some think symbolizing the hope of …

Lining up text, lining up text boxes

Lining up text, lining up text boxes … the object below A text box with a coloured background: line up the edge of the box with the item … A post for the purists today. In PowerPoint, a text box and a rectangular coloured shape with text … adjustment. A text box with a transparent background: line up the edges of the text (without padding) to …

Writing text on charts

Most charts consists of 2 - 4 "boxes" with some text inside them. Text in boxes is different from … sure that each box has roughly the same amount of text, covers the same number of lines. Yes, that … writing text in boxes: Make sure the point in each of the boxes has more or less equal weight in terms of … Writing text on charts … text in sentences and/or paragraphs. When writing an article, you don't have to worry about how long … detail. Think of text on slides as headlines. Strip out all unnecessary filler words (i.e., make it …

Adding structure to text

people use an outline, a frame around text for the same purpose. I think a light box fill looks a lot … gives structure to the text. You can also use images to reinforce the slide's grid layout. Many … Adding structure to text … SlideMagic. Traditional presentation design software is not very well set up to changing grids of text …

Putting text on images

Putting text on images … and alignment of the text box The line breaks are not placed carefully enough, breaking apart words … : The text in the box does not have enough breathing space, The quotation marks disturb the balance …

Presentation text = headlines

When you add text to your presentation, you are writing headlines. And headline writing is … Presentation text = headlines … long words But.... keep them meaningful. Abstract, vague, generic text is a waste of space Take …

Text slide selector

select number of text lines, bullet style, and whether you want a side image or not, and the store will … diagrams. Subscribers to the SlideMagic store can download these charts (or a whole bundle full of text charts) free of charge. … Text slide selector …

Text on 16:9

Text on 16:9 … designed with movies in mind. For text it is a disaster. Even at a decent font size, there are too …

Text columns in PowerPoint

Sometimes, you need to fill a PowerPoint slide with text. These slides are obviously not meant to … for the eye to follow very long lines of text, because when the eye has reached the far right end of … Text columns in PowerPoint … ago, and invented the text column. If you right click a text box in PowerPoint and select format … investor presentation, detailed bios of the management team in the back, or a page of text in a … with long lines. Also, long lines of text look ugly. Print designers discovered all this centuries …

Fitting text in circles

It is very tricky to fit paragraph text into a circle. Line breaks are never smooth, especially … Fitting text in circles … when you have long words. My approach is to use a larger circle, but fit the text inside an imaginary …

Sorting text by length

words on purpose so that the length of each text box is more or less the same. PS. How did I get … In slide design, every detail counts. Pay attention to the length of text blocks when putting them … Sorting text by length …

The largest amount of text

the chart. Here you need to be a newspaper front page layout designer/editor and cut down the text of … with the largest amount of text, it determines the shape size and/or font size of all the boxes on … The largest amount of text …

Matching text and image colours

Matching text and image colours … .. adjust the text colour to the image (see example) Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash …

Two ways to emphasize text

Two ways to emphasize text …

Good slideocuments versus bad bullet point slides

from a poorly designed bullet point slide (with dense text). It follows the layout principles of print … that is too small for a live presentation and too big for reading. Text runs from left to right across … around It is easy to combine text, graphs, images, and data It is easy to collaborate with others in … design: white space, text in readable columns. Poor bullet point slides usually have a font size … -up presentation in front of an audience. A good slideocument slide with dense text is different … Text slides in PowerPoint.png …

Will the designer change your text?

text always stays the same. Maybe this is the question you should ask a potential presentation designer … Will the designer change your text? … often the text changer might not be very good at design. (The SlideMagic bespoke design pitch was … actually 3), etc. The text changer is a very different designer from the makeover artist. And very …

Putting PowerPoint text in a perfect circle

I am revamping my own introduction presentation and needed to align text according to a circle … . Untill now, I used to improvise to fit text in a circle. There is a clean and simple way to do this. Click on the image for a bigger picture. … Putting PowerPoint text in a perfect circle …