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Slot Machine Animation

I am continuously wanting to share my presentation work, but continuously held back by the fact that client files are not released. So I pulled from recent projects a dozen dynamic animated slides, ‘cleaned’ them of all client reference and will be posting them for download!

Here is a really fun animated slide that uses only PPT animations and images prepp’d in Photoshop to create the slot machine effect.

PPT Animated Slot Machine

Download the full PowerPoint 2007 file, that has sound and all animations accessible with this link (.pptx and 650K)

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-09-16T10:02:51-07:00July 27th, 2009|Portfolio|

4th July Text

I had a few emails asking about the 4th of July post. I did most of the work in Photoshop compositing the red/white rays with the fireworks. Then in PPT 2007 I added the TLC logo, a radial gradient shape under the logo to help it have contrast and be visible and finally created the text using PPT 2007 gradient fill options.

The text is a custom font (Albert, which is license restricted so not embedded – will default to some other font on your computer…). I added a custom 3 step gradient, bold outline and near opaque drop shadow (needed on the visually busy background used in previous post). The slide can be downloaded here.

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-09-16T10:07:09-07:00July 6th, 2009|Portfolio, Tutorial|

Online Paint Program Sumo Paint

Don’t have Photoshop and want something a bit more feature rich than Paint? I spent some time experimenting with the online image editing program “Sumo Paint”.

Sumo Paint is flash based, so the only thing needed is the flash plugin. There are a number of youtube videos (some better than others) that demo some of the unique features like the Symetry brush. For an online application it worked virtually identical to an installed application, it is free and does lots of great stuff.

Head over to Sumo Paint here. Even if you do not need another paint program/image editor, it is worth a few minutes to play with Sumo Paint and see how feature rich the new generation of online applications are. Here is a quick image I created in 20 seconds using the symmetry tool and then a few filters.

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-09-16T10:43:45-07:00March 26th, 2009|Software/Add-Ins|

Free Christmas Template

Merry Christmas to everyone (a day early)!! As a small gift to everyone who visits ThePowerPointBlog.com here is a custom PowerPoint template for your use.

This is a full featured template with all master slide elements (text box position, text style – color – size, line spacing, slide transitions, default color scheme, etc.) pre-formatted. Template was setup in PPT 2003, the theme is ‘white christmas’ and it will hopefully find many wonderful uses. Click here to download.

Note: you can search ‘christmas’ to find templates from previous years too.

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-11-17T12:13:07-07:00December 24th, 2008|Portfolio, Templates/Assets|

PPT 2007 “Picture Effects” Template Deck

Click here to go to the Office Online page with the download link for this great, and free, PPT 2007 presentation that has 15 picture effects. All effects are created entirely in PPT 2007 and the speaker notes have detailed step-by-step instructions on how to recreate the effects in your presentaitons.

Here are a few samples of the picture effects in this deck:

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-11-17T12:15:24-07:00December 16th, 2008|Resource/Misc, Software/Add-Ins|

PPT 2007 Visual Themes FREE

Sometimes it is difficult to keep a secret – this is one of those items I was excited about when I previewed them (yeah!) and then was told not to talk about them until Microsoft posted them (ohhh…). Well this week Microsoft Office Online has officially posted a series of PPT 2007 visual elements templates.

These really great ‘presentations’ are a series of incredible visual elements, animations and layouts – all created with PPT 2007 tools. As example one of the template decks shows how to make this graphic entirely within PowerPoint 2007!

Julie Terberg is the designer responsible for all of these effects (also a MS PowerPoint MVP). Check back as each day next week I highlight a different template deck (there are 8 in total).

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-11-17T12:15:44-07:00December 13th, 2008|Resource/Misc, Software/Add-Ins|

Snapsound.com for FREE sound fx

If you need some sound effect (fx) for a presentation, a great, FREE, online resource is soundsnap.com. You do need to register and then 5 downloads per month are free.

There are a lot of sound fx here and the collection seems to be continuously growing. All are free to download and royalty free for use. One of the best features is you can download almost any audio file in either .mp3 or .wav format (I prefer .wav as it can be embedded into PowerPoint).

Visit the site by clicking here.

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-11-17T12:16:23-07:00December 9th, 2008|Software/Add-Ins|
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