This week, we are celebrating St. Patrick’s Day! And starting with a free St. Patrick’s Day themed PowerPoint template created by Jennifer here at TLC Creative Services.
Developed as a native .pptx format (PPT 2007, 2010, 2013), in 4×3 aspect ratio. It also features animated title and content slides.
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Download here 800KB
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At the beginning of last year, Microsoft posted a series of PowerPoint 2013 slides and templates that TLC Creative Services, Inc. developed (for Microsoft Office.com). These were the items referenced in the previous blog post that many emailed and asked about.
There are a lot of templates and sample slides available at Office.com. Just go here and search in the Templates and then PowerPoint.
Here is a direct link to PowerPoint slides and videos with templates, many were created here at TLC Creative Services, and all are free to download and use!
– Troy @ TLC
We completed a project recently that involved the University of Minnesota. As part of the presentation project, we developed a great UofM themed template. Because all of the content is clear for distribution, I thought it would be good to make the full template available here.
The template is native to PPT 2010 (.pptx), 4×3 aspect ratio, and has all of the PowerPoint presets customized. Let us know if the template is useful to you!
Download here – 254KB
– Troy @ TLC
At Christmas, the spirit of the season – and a lot of the fun, is giving. TLC Creative Services has this great Holiday themed template for everyone to have and use – FREE!!
Many thanks to TLC Creative Services designer Amber, who developed this template!
Template is developed in PPT 2010 and 16×9 (wide screen) aspect ratio. Download here.
– Troy @ TLC
My previous post covered “standard” definition DVDs, which are pretty low res in terms of computer displays. Blu-Ray DVDs are basically High Def computer monitor specs. So if creating a video from a PPT presentation to go onto a Blu Ray DVD, it is the same process:
– Export at highest quality PPT offers of 960x720px (which is below Blu-Ray specs, but the best natively available)
When authoring a Blu-ray DVD, that software will upconvert (ie. make larger) to Blue-ray HD quality:
– 1920 x 1080 (1080p) resolution
– Audio can be Dolby TrueHD or DTS-HD Master Audio and support up to surround sound 7.1 (at 96kHz/24bit) or 5.1 (at 192kHz/24bit)
– Maximum bitrate of 40.0 Mbit/s
Blu-Ray Trivia:
– The name “Blu-Ray” is because it uses a blue-violet laser to read/write discs.
– Blu-Ray has its own association, the “Blu-ry Disc Association” or “BDA” – which is the group of consumer electronics, media and computer manufacturers that established the technology standards.
– A single layer Blu-ray disc can hold 25GB of data (standard DVD is 4.7GB) and a dual layer can hold 50GB! But that is only 4 hours of HD video (on a single layer disc).
– Troy @ TLC
Amber, another great presentation designer here at TLC Creative Services, created this 4th of July themed PowerPoint template. It is free for all to download and use – just click here – 1.1MB.
– PPT 2010
– 16×9
– Master layouts include all the standards, plus a Theme layout and alternate full frame layout.
– Troy @ TLC
Wanda, one of our talented TLC Creative designers, developed this great Halloween themed template we are sharing with everyone.
The template is native to PPT 2010, 16×9 aspect ratio and features several layouts including a great animated title slide (Note: All elements on the title slide from the background to the cauldron and hat were created in PowerPoint).
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Download the full template here:
– Troy @ TLC
For this slide (see previous post for more info on it), I wanted the numbers to be a visual focal point. I also wanted to keep them as editable PPT text. By mixing the stylized text with more standard text, a nice slide layout was developed. The big number text was created by:
1. Make it big (this text is 125pt).
2. Give it a gradient fill – using colors that coordinate with the template color scheme.
3. Add a subtle outline (stroke) to the text to help it contrast for legibility.
4. Add a drop shadow.
The sample slide can be downloaded here.
– Troy @ TLC
PowerPoint To Go (PPT-to-go.de) is a company based in Germany and offers a collection of PowerPoint templates that are free. The main categories are maps and nice looking 3D shapes in colorful layouts.
Unfortunately, we were not too impressed with the site. To access the free templates you must go through a registration process – for 1 template per month. While registering, the site timed out twice with a fatal error on the server being reported. It took four log in attempts before successfully accessing the downloads page. So the online experience was far from smooth.
The template downloaded is a .ppt (PPT 2003) and on our systems it opened with a corrupt file warning.
The thumbnail image on the download page was very different (and visually better) than the actual slide:
I had expected to see a full PowerPoint template with all of the master slide formatting preset. There is minimal template formatting in place and it is actually more jumbled than the MS default (and uses the German language dictionary).
Many of the thumbnails look great and I would recommend using just the content (map, 3D pyramid, etc.) by importing into your template and not using the PowerPoint to Go file as a template.
– Troy @ TLC
Microsoft’s Office.com has launched a really great new download option for PowerPoint video templates and slides. For TLC Creative Services, it is especially exciting as I was able to work with the Office.com team to create the first set of video templates! The 34 templates available were all created right here and available to everyone for free – visit the Microsoft Office Video Templates page here.
The goal of these templates (note – most are single slide examples, not true presentation templates) is to “showcase the great video features of PowerPoint 2010. …these video templates provide customers with detailed instructions for how to reproduce the creative effects on the slide. Customers may then use the templates to customize with their own videos.” I definitely expect to see this resource continue to grow, so keep it bookmarked.
– Troy @ TLC