The 4th of July weekend was great! Lots of relaxing, time with family and grilling. This template is posted after the weekend, so everyone is very prepared for next year! This is a full featured 4th of July themed PowerPoint 2010 template that is setup for widescreen (16×9) presentations.
1 = Theme slide
2 = Title slide
3 = Content slide, and all standard layouts based on this one
Download the template here.
– Troy @ TLC
Looking forward to a great day with family, food and fireworks! We have designed a full featured PowerPoint 2010 4th of July themed template that can be downloaded for free.
Download here (580K)
Troy @ TLC
Happy Easter! TLC Creative Services has designed a full featured 16×9 PPT 2010 Easter themed template for all to use.
Click here to download.
– Troy @ TLC
2011 started with a “Happy New Year” graphic and message. Creating the graphic was easy in PPT 2010.
1. Type text and size
2. Add style formatting (fill color and 3-D bevel)
3. Duplicate orginal black text slide and apply a custom 3-D bevel
4. Then customize the Surface Material and Lighting
5. Copy the colored text to the 3D perspective text slide and adjust size of each to match
6. I added the TLC company logo, then size/positioned to take place of the dot in the explanation point
The completed slide can be downloaded here.
– Troy @ TLC
Presentation messaging expert Joey Asher has a new book out “15 Mintues Including Q&A: A Plan to Save the World From Lousy Presentations“.
From the book he offers a FREE 38 page eBook titled “How to Create a Seven Minute Rifle Shot Presentation”. In the first 2 pages it will either have you applauding or revolting at the idea (I applauded). I, of course, like the way Mr. Asher always carries the concept of a quality, visually appealing presentation as an underlying priority.
Go to the PDF here.
– Troy @ TLC
Trick or Treat! That is what I will be hearing all evening from my daughters and the neighborhood kids – and it is great. I had the TLC Creative design staff develop a treat for everyone – a free Halloween themed PowerPoint .pptx template.
Download here (255K) . The ‘Happy Halloween’ text at the top was created in PPT 2010.
– Troy @ TLC
This is another layout recently developed for a project. The goal was to avoid a bulleted list and create a more dynamic, and memorable, graphic layout.
1. Create a tall triangle
2. Using the gradient fill options modify the triangle to move from semi-opaque to transparent
1. Open the FORMAT SHAPE dialog and go to the FILL section
2. Select GRADIENT FILL
3. Make certain the type is LINEAR
4. Stop 1 (top of triangle) is desired color and 20-25% transparency
5. Stop 2 (middle of triangle) is a lighter color and 40-50% transparency
6. Stop 3 (bottom of triangle) is any color and 100% transparency
3. The result transforms the triangle to this
4. And here is an example layout using all PPT shapes and text
5. The great thing is the triangles use transparency and not white, so they can be used on any background
Click here to download the slide layout (29K).
– Troy @ TLC
The Free PowerPoint Files website is a collection of PowerPoint templates. It looks to be a companion site to the “PowerPoint Styles” website I reviewed back in June offering the same template designs. Free PowerPoint Files offers several hundred PowerPoint templates that are image based with stock images for the background and text placeholders formatted to coordinate with the background image.
The templates are all the legacy .ppt format. But they are free. What you download is a nice background image, but not a very functional template. The images used for the template backgrounds are very modern and work well for templates. When I opened the template I downloaded it looked good from the thumbnail view with multiple layouts and PowerPoint placeholders positioned well on the background image.
But the Title slide (viewed in edit view, not master slide view) showed a single text box vs. separate text boxes for the title and subtitle text, which have different formatting. And the background was a placed .jpg (eg. not from a preset master slide).
The Master Slides revealed no formatting, just a placed .jpg for the background. No text placeholders, named master, title slide master, etc.
If you are familiar with the basics of setting up templates with default placeholders, color scheme and transitions the PowerPoint Styles templates offer nice backgrounds to start with.
– Troy @ TLC
Inspired by a recent project that highlighted the Indy 500, here is a full PowerPoint 2007/10 template with a racing theme.
Download the template here (800K) .
– Troy @ TLC
Earlier this month I showed an example of PowerPoint 3D metallic text I stylized for a presentation. Recently Matthew T. added a Bronze color to the mix and sent it back to me.
First, thanks Matthew for sharing your efforts! The updated slide can be downloaded here.
Second, for the awards show I created the effect for there was only Gold and Silver awards. So Bronze is perfect – just not needed when I created…
– Troy @ TLC