color and texture in powerpoint ® presentations created by adam warren adapted for cd

Color and texturein PowerPoint® presentations

Created by Adam Warren

Adapted for CD

Better Than Bullet Points. Copyright © 2008 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Reproduced by permission of Pfeiffer, an imprint of Wiley. www.pfeiffer.com

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color fills

Every shape has a Fill color and Line color – this is a plain (flat) color fill

You can select colors from the default ‘color wheel’ or choose your own custom shade

You can also control the transparency of a fill – this one is 50% transparent


Selecting color fills

Right-click on the object and choose Format AutoShape from the pop-up menu



Make sure the Colors and Lines tab is selected

Then click the Color selector arrow



You can use No Fill to make the object transparent

… or click to choose any of these standard colors

… or click to choose any of these recently-used colors

… or click to choose from a wider selection of colors(see next two slides)


Standard colors

This tab selects the Standard color wheel

Click to choose any of these standard colors

Note the shades of grey

Note the transparency slider and % control


Custom colors

This tab selects the Custom color selector

Click and drag to select the basic color you want

Then drag the slider up or down to adjust the shade

Note the transparency slider and % control

You can also enter RGB or HSL values directly


Transparency

Graduated fills

This is a basic graduated fill, top to bottom, from the color selected to a darker shade

This is a graduated fill, from the centre, between two selected colors

This is a preset graduated fill (Chrome 2) with transparency


Graduated fills

Right-click on the object, select Format Autoshape and then Fill Effects


One-color graduated fills

Click to choose the Shading style (direction) and then the Variant

You can also control the transparency of the fill

For one-color fills you select the basic color and then adjust the dark/light slider – look at the Sample

Note this option…

Select the Gradient tab


Two-color graduated fills



For two-color fills you select both colors – look at the Sample

Note this option…


Preset graduated fills



For preset fills you select the one you want from the list – look at the Sample

Note this option…


Transparency

Texture fills

This is a texture fill, based on an image of sack-cloth

If you enlarge or stretch the object, the texture is ‘tiled’ to fill the new shape – note you cannot change the size of the texture

This is a texture downloaded from the Web – with 50% transparency applied. Link: http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/freedownloads/l/bltiles001.htm


Texture fills

Right-click on the object, select Format Autoshape and then Fill Effects


Texture fills

Alternatively, choose another image file (JPG, GIF,

BMP) from your file

Don’t forget to scroll down!

Select the texture you want from those provided

Select the Texture tab


Texture fills

Note that not all textures will “tile” seamlessly – you may want to use a Picture fill instead.


Photo fills

This is an original digital photo, imported directly usingInsert > Picture > From File

This is the same photo, used as a Fill for this “explosion” AutoShape


Photo Fills

If you re-size these objects you will scale and distort the photo (change its aspect ratio).

Remember to resize and compress photos to keep the size of the PowerPoint file as small as possible.

This image is a 640x480 pixel copy of the 1280x960 original image, and consequently only adds 40 kilobytes instead of 576 kilobytes to the file-size.

You can use the same image more than once without adding to the PowerPoint file size.


Photo Fills

Note that you cannot reposition the image within the shape (e.g. to center the robot head in the star) so you may need to edit your image before use.

This image was cropped square so the head was larger and central. The background was also edited for extra effect.


Photo fills

Right-click on the object, select Format AutoShape and then Fill Effects


Photo fills

Select the image file you want (JPG, GIF, BMP) from your files

Select the Picture tab


Photo backgrounds

This background image is a 1024x768 pixel JPG fileimported in the usual way: Insert > Picture > From File

1. right-click on the image and choose Format Picture, then set its Scale to 75% on the Size tab

2. reposition the image so it covers the entire slide area

You can easily use an image as the background to a slide 3. select the image, then

choose Order > Send to Back from the Draw menu at the foot of the screen


Photo backgrounds

6. explore the Image control options to adjust the brightness and contrast

Alternatively, you could make more sophisticated adjustments in an image editor like Photoshop before importing the image

5. right-click on the image and choose Format Picture, then select the Picture tab


The Slide Master

If you want to design and use a standard background for every slide in your program, add the images and objects to the Slide Master (template): View > Master > Slide Master

If you want to use an image for just some of your slides, create the first slide, copy it and then edit the content of the copies.

You can easily copy-and-paste slides using the Slides pane on the left of the screen and the standard Copy and Paste.

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