Slide Design with Image Fill Text – A Look Back to February 2015
I was a bit worried when this year-long “Look Back” series was proposed; was it going to take too much time, would there be enough previous posts, are previous posts still relevant to PowerPoint design today… Well, now I’m excited about his series as we end January! As example, this typography-themed post is from a decade ago! Though originally posted in February 2015, the slide design feature in PowerPoint is exactly the same. Therefore, the flair and creativity it can bring to slides absolutely works for presentations created today!
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In this post, we are adding a visual styling to text AND keeping it editable. All text can have a color fill, gradient fill, texture fill or PHOTO/IMAGE fill. Here is my sample text slide, on a black background to help the text styling options display.
1. Select the text to fill (*Tip: It does not have to be all of the text in a text box, select just the text you want – this can be a great solution for adding accent focus on specific text).
2. Go to FORMAT >> WORDART STYLES section >> FORMAT TEXT EFFECTS to open the FORMAT SHAPE pane to the text formatting tab.
3. Select PICTURE OR TEXTURE FILL.
4. This defaults to filling text with the first texture in the Microsoft library.
4. Click FILE.
5. Select an image to use as the fill – I am using an abstract image.
And here is the stylized text, which is editable (change the font, size, text, etc.) and can have any PowerPoint styling options applied (drop shadow, bevel, glow, etc.).
– Troy @ TLC
This is from our Look Back series, rediscovering previous blog posts with relevant PowerPoint tips, tricks and examples. The original post from February 18th, 2015 can be viewed here.