The PowerPoint® Blog

I work with PowerPoint on a daily basis and I am very honored to be a Microsoft PowerPoint MVP. We have a talented team of presentation designers at TLC Creative Services and ThePowerPointBlog is our area to highlight PowerPoint tips, tricks, examples and tutorials. Enjoy! Troy Chollar

Ultrawide Awards Show (Portfolio)

Awards shows are events that have lots of great staging and theatrics. TLC Creative is brought in to many awards shows to develop a glitzy-dynamic-unique presentation look for the awards show – that does not look like “PowerPoint’. Here is an example of a recent awards show project UltraWide presentation template.

3 screens wide, designed as a single ultrawide presentation with presentation design across the full canvas. Note: portfolio example only, template and presentation files not available for download.

Troy @ TLC

By |2017-04-03T12:43:51-07:00April 3rd, 2017|Portfolio, The PowerPoint® Blog|

What is an “Ultrawide” Presentation?

“Ultrawide” Presentations here at TLC Creative Services refer to any presentation that is wider than 16×9. And we are excited by the number of these design projects that come our way each year – a reflection of the increased use of edge blending technology to “gang” projectors and also a reflection of our design team’s expertise in understanding the technical needs as well as design needs for these “Ultrawide” screens.

Here is a standard 16×9 setup. Single projector to a single screen projecting at the industry standard 1920×1080 pixel “high def”.

And here is a common Ultrawide setup. 3 High Def projectors ganged together (note: no edge blending consideration in this example) across a single super wide screen for a  5,760×1080 pixel projection.

The important element for presentation design is that the slides are setup as a single 5760×1080 presentation, not 3 separate 16×9 presentations. For design, everything from slide transition choices, to size of text are important considerations for the audience experience.

Up next, a few portfolio examples of recent Ultrawide presentation template design projects.

Troy @ TLC

 

By |2017-03-30T12:57:38-07:00March 31st, 2017|Resource/Misc, The PowerPoint® Blog|

TLC Creative Receives “Best Of” 2017 Award!

TLC Creative Services is not based in the larger Los Angeles or directly in San Diego, but we are very proud to have again been recognized as the pick for Best Of in the category of graphic design from our little city!

“Each year, in and around the Murrieta area, the Murrieta Award Program chooses only the best local businesses. We focus on companies that have demonstrated their ability to use various marketing methods to grow their business in spite of difficult economic times. The companies chosen exemplify the best of small business; often leading through customer service and community involvement.”

Troy @ TLC

By |2017-03-29T08:40:01-07:00March 30th, 2017|Resource/Misc, The PowerPoint® Blog|

PowerPoint Icons Library!

If you are running Office 365, PowerPoint 2106, a new addition was added to the ribbon – Icons!

This is a Microsoft offering, not an add-in from a 3rd party. It is also linked to our new .svg image support. Click the Icons button and there is a large library of professional and modern icons available.

Just search through the many categories, select an icon and click INSERT to add to a slide.

Every icon is provided in the .svg format. So, all icons can be resized with no quality loss, are very small file size, and can be recolored and offer limited styling options within PowerPoint (see previous post for overview of PowerPoint SVG formatting options and limitations).

Troy @ TLC

By |2017-01-11T12:52:48-08:00January 20th, 2017|PowerPoint|
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