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PowerPoint Gets The Blame with Full Screen Videos

PowerPoint seems to cause the problem, but it is really video card settings that make your movie playback at full screen.

(on pre-Vista OS) go to START >> DISPLAYS >> SETTINGS tab >> ADVANCED button >> depending on graphics card find the settings for THEATER MODE (usually buried a few buttons down). If it says play movies full screen, that is what PowerPoint looks at and does… I recomend changing THEATER MODE to ‘standard’ so there are no surprises.

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-11-17T15:39:44-08:00February 15th, 2007|Tutorial|

PowerPoint Gets The Blame with Widescreens

There are times when it looks like PowerPoint is to blame, but in reality it is a computer OS setting that is making PowerPoint appear to behave badly. An example of this that comes up often is running a presentation on a widescreen monitor.

Recent Post on the PowerPoint Forum:
I have a widescreen monitor powerpoint distorts graphs. The font becomes much larger and squished together. How do I stop the powerpoint from changing things?

My Response:
(on a pre-Vista OS) Go to START >> CONTROL PANEL >> DISPLAY >> SETTINGS tab >> ADVANCED button >> depending on which video card, find setting for MAINTAIN ASPECT RATIO. Now 4×3 presentations will display with black bars on the left/right so nothing is distorted on a widescreen monitor.

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-11-17T15:38:48-08:00February 13th, 2007|Tutorial|

Video Tutorial on PowerPoint Photo Crop Tool

For a recent client I supplied the PowerPoint template and a quick video tutorial on using PowerPoint’s Crop tool to provide some tips on how best to insert a series of photos. Now for your viewing pleasure I have uploaded that tutorial to one of my servers for all to enjoy!

Note: This was unscripted and created in just a few minutes, so it is definitely lacking much of the polished professional touches that go into real projects… Click here to view.

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-05-13T15:19:43-07:00February 11th, 2007|Portfolio, Tutorial|

The Online Presentations Are Coming!

There is a growing demand for online presentations. I have been very busy over the past year converting PowerPoint presentations to Flash and streaming movie formats for online use. This is great stuff, but definitely not the solution for the average user. Well here is a hint that the average user may be getting some tools to make their own online presentations in the near future. Click here to read about it.

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-11-17T15:38:06-08:00February 9th, 2007|Software/Add-Ins|

Do You Use PPTs Native Org Chart Tools?

I know a lot of presentations need organization charts. I know a lot of people design their org charts with PowerPoints native org charting tools. I also know a lot of people that are very frustrated while editing these org charts!

Thanks to “Mary” who replied to a post on the MS PowerPoint Forum and provided a link to a great tutorial on ways to modify PPT developed org charts. Click here to open the “Add a second top-level box to an org chart in PowerPoint” tutorial on the Microsoft website.

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-11-17T15:37:41-08:00February 7th, 2007|Software/Add-Ins|

Morning Nutrition Is A Must

PowerPoint can be very time consuming – up before anyone else and ending after all have gone. This past week one of Lori’s co-workers on a large show “helped” her by supplying fresh Florida (we were working in Florida) Orange Juice for breakfast as she was too busy to get any… thanks Chris!

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-11-17T15:36:59-08:00February 5th, 2007|Personal|

animation vs. animator

This is just creative and fun animation that is entertaining!

Click here to view.

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-11-17T15:36:15-08:00February 3rd, 2007|Personal, PowerPoint, Resource/Misc|

Allocating Desk Place

Setting up a mobile graphics office is sometimes a challenge on a smaller table/desk. At this recent show I was literally stacking computers two deep to get all of the graphics horsepower within reach.

Of course there is always room for an espresso drink (see #2)!

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-11-17T15:35:46-08:00February 1st, 2007|Personal, Portfolio|

PPT Requires A Lot of PSD

Here is just the title slide to a very visually stunning presentation Lori recently developed for a client (maybe later I will upload some of the highly stylized content slides).

The key with this entire project, is that the amount of time spent in Photoshop was more than double the amount of time spent working in PowerPoint. Here are the layers created in Photoshop to end up with the above template background (and this one is pretty straight forward/easy in the number of layers and effects).

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-11-17T15:34:39-08:00January 30th, 2007|Portfolio|

From This To That (Technical Architecture Slide)

With a recent project I began to feel that part of my duties were interpreter. All the information was there, but I did not have the presenter available to explain the industry and what the message of the slide was. All is done and very well received, but thought I would share a some before-and-after slides.

Before:
Lots of information, sort of compartmentalized, lots of colors, lots of confusion and of course, clip art.

After:
Took a while to figure out the message, then recreate with a new layout that allows everyone to see the interaction of the elements, a more limited color palette and no more stock clip art.

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-11-17T15:33:57-08:00January 28th, 2007|Portfolio|