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Christmas Themed Template

Merry Christmas!!!

This is a great time of year – first, I have opportunity to focus on design work from my office (eg. I’m not traveling to corporate shows every week) and I also get to enjoy my kids’ excitement for the holidays! As way of saying Merry Christmas to all, please download this custom PowerPoint template I designed specifically for all who visit ThePowerPointBlog.

This is one features an elegant Christmas theme. As with all PowerPoint templates I develop this one features:
– Theme specific backgrounds developed in Photoshop
– Text boxes have preset position, font style, font size, font color, line spacing and bullets
– Preset entrance animations for text boxes
– Preset slide transitions
– File properties and header/footer information preset
– Presentation color scheme, customized to coordinate with background artwork

Click here to download (approx. 800k)

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-11-17T15:26:27-07:00December 25th, 2006|PowerPoint|

PowerPoint Timers

Countdown timers can be created fairly easy in PowerPoint. There are lots of needs for timers and I recently had a client call me from there event (that was already underway) asking for a countdown timer to run for the breaks.

Microsoft has some good resources available on its website. I simply emailed a link to the Microsoft Online where they have a few dozen ready-made countdown timers. My client found one they liked, added their logo to the master slide and was ready to go in less than 15 minutes.

To check out the countdown timer presentations Microsoft has available (for free), click here.

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-11-17T14:37:15-07:00November 3rd, 2006|Software/Add-Ins|

4th of July template

Happy 4th of July!! The states are awash with patriotism and we are off for our annual trip to the state fair where we end the day listening to the Navy Band and watching a huge fireworks show.

There are lots of great template sites out there, and it is not something I have focused on (providing a library of downloadable templates). But I designed this Americana themed template to share with all. Download here (580k).

Troy @ TLC

By |2016-11-17T14:04:24-07:00July 4th, 2006|Templates/Assets|

Animation Sample – Move and Grow

This is a quick animation sample that I created based on yesterday’s posted tutorial. Here I start with a small image and combine a MOTION PATH with a GROW EMPHASIS and finally a fully size image FADE IN. The result is some visually dynamic onscreen action, that overcomes one of PowerPoint’s raster graphic limitations.

Click here to download the PowerPoint file (500k).

-Troy @ TLC

By |2016-11-17T13:50:27-07:00June 5th, 2006|Portfolio, Tutorial|

Office 2007 – Beta 2

Yesterday was the official release of Office 2007 Beta 2. Anyone is free to download (for free) and see what all the news is about. Of course being a beta, not everything is working 100%, but the new User Interface has to be experienced as words cannot explain it sufficiently. Even more impressive is seeing the new charts and tables engine in action!

The download is 550MB, so have a fast connection. Click here to go to Microsofts Beta download site (wait for the flash animation to finish and click the “Try Now” button).

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-11-17T13:53:23-07:00May 24th, 2006|PowerPoint|

Enlarge an Image (Part 1)

There are some great animation effects that can be achieved using the “Emphasis” animations. One of the more frustrating is the Grow/Shrink emphasis. I have a developed a two part tutorial to go into details on how best to use this animation effect. Download Part I here (1 MB PPT file).

Troy @ TLC

By |2016-11-17T13:53:41-07:00May 22nd, 2006|Tutorial|

Animation Sample (Airport Security Analogy)

Here is a presentation that is a series of animated slides from a project where the speaker needed to explain the company’s medical process to a non-medical audience. We decided on developing an analogy of the various industry processes with something everyone is familiar with – airport security.

As is typical for many of the presentations I work on, it is primarily 90% custom PhotoShop elements animated in PowerPoint. Download the presentation for review and inspiration. I have left it as an editable presentation for those that want to look at the animation timeline and techniques can do so. Click here to download (4.5 MB ).

Troy @ TLC

By |2016-11-17T13:56:02-07:00May 14th, 2006|Portfolio|

PowerPoint for the Mime

The requests for presentations always prove to be interesting. But this one initially was out of the ordinary even for me. A professional mime was the opening act of a corporate event and they needed a presentation to correspond with the mime’s acting. A speaker support presentation – but with no speaking 🙂

Click here to see the project write-up, online movie of the presentation AND download of the full editable presentation.

Troy @ TLC

By |2016-09-16T11:13:07-07:00January 3rd, 2006|Portfolio|
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