Just wrapping up at the LA Auto Show where I handled the presentation design and running of the press event for Honda. Event screen was a 200′ long L-shape screen LED wall, my computers and equipment is along the bottom (with the green background).
– Troy @ TLC
Hope you have a great holiday. And thanks to Jennifer at the office who created this fun Thanksgiving Turkey entirely in PowerPoint!
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– Troy @ TLC
As a salute to everyone in the U.S. military for everything you do, and sacrifice – here is a tribute created in PowerPoint:
1. Great video loop from videoblocks.com
2. Image from istockphoto
3. Same image after some development work in Photoshop and saved as a .png with transparency
4. Image from istockphoto
5. Same image after resizing and development work in Photoshop, saved as a .png with transparency
Assemble all in PowerPoint 2010, animate and export as a video
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Troy @ TLC
November, the 11th month of the year. We have almost made it to the end of another great year! TLC Creative Services has had a great year, which is evident by the diversity of projects we have worked on. For this month, starting Monday, the blog will be a collection of portfolio highlights and projects from this year.
Have a great weekend and see you Monday!
– Troy @ TLC
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Just a little Halloween fun here at TLC Creative Services!
– Troy @ TLC
We had a great group over to the house for our annual Pumpkin Carving party on Sunday! Lots of food, great conversations and a bit of competition… Over 40 pumpkins were judged in 5 categories. My family included Harry Potter-Ron-and spiders, a glowing camp fire with s’mores, The Avengers, a Ballerina and Larry & Bob from Veggie Tales.
Hope you have a great Halloween and start to fall!
– Troy @ TLC
The irony is I spent this week at the largest gathering of PowerPoint professionals in the country at The Presentation Summit. The day after the Summit ends, Microsoft announces Office 2013 has reached RTM (Release To Manufacturing) – which means it is locked in and ready for distribution (no more development). Below is the official announcement, but look for Office 2013 at the beginning of the year.
(Presenting PPT 2013 Features at The 2012 Presentation Summit)
– Troy @ TLC
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Office Reaches RTM!
By Kirk Koenigsbauer on October 11
Today we reached an important milestone in the development of the new Office.
Moments ago, the Office engineering team signed off on the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) build. This milestone means the coding and testing phase of the project is complete and we are now focused on releasing the new Office via multiple distribution channels to our consumer and business customers.
This is the most ambitious release of Office we’ve ever done. It spans the full family of Office applications, servers and cloud services. The new Office has a fresh, touch friendly design that works beautifully on Windows 8 and unlocks modern scenarios in social, reading, note-taking, meetings and communications. We are proud to achieve this milestone and are eager to deliver this exciting release to our customers.
General availability is planned for the first quarter of 2013. Starting October 19, customers purchasing Office 2010 from local retailers or resellers will receive the new Office for free upon availability. Customers will also see a preview version of the new Office on Windows RT devices, beginning with the Windows 8 launch on October 26.
Additionally, we have a number of programs that provide business customers with early access so they can begin testing, piloting and adopting Office within their organizations:
We will begin rolling out new capabilities to Office 365 Enterprise customers in our next service update, starting in November through general availability. Volume Licensing customers with Software Assurance will be able to download the Office 2013 applications as well as other Office products including SharePoint 2013, Lync 2013 and Exchange 2013 through the Volume Licensing Service Center by mid-November. These products will be available on the Volume Licensing price list on December 1. IT professionals and developers will be able to download the final version via their TechNet or MSDN subscriptions by mid-November. Please stay tuned for more specifics on general availability dates and other Office launch news. In the meantime, if you’d like to give the pre-release version a try, you can visit office.com/preview.
Thank you to the millions of people who have been testing early releases of the new Office. We are grateful for your support. Your invaluable feedback has helped us make the new Office the best Office ever.
Kirk Koenigsbauer
Corporate Vice President
Microsoft Office Division
For the 2012 Presentation Summit, I was asked to do a session on the upcoming PowerPoint 2013 from a presenter perspective.
The session went great (at least I thought so) and it was a lot of fun to be with a room full of presentation designers – and a handful of Microsoft Dev and Managers from the PowerPoint team.
With more topics than time, the session was setup with a grid of topics and audience members choose which topics to cover. It made for great interaction and fun.
Note: I am already working on a December blog post series that will cover many of the PPT 2013 topics from this talk (co-authoring, presenter view, widescreen evolution, etc.) – and some topics were already featured on the blog in last months PPT 2013 series.
– Troy @ TLC
After many months of testing the new version of Office, a few weeks ago Microsoft released the Public Beta, which clears the NDA commitment and lets me do this series on the upcoming PowerPoint release. So the entire month of August will be posts about the new and exciting things in our presentation future!
Side note: I have been invited to present at this years Presentation Summit specifically about PowerPoint 2013. I am excited about the conference in general – it really is one of the best gatherings of presentation professionals in the country – and this talk will allow me to go into greater detail using PPT13 for live demos of real world presentation design and delivery scenarios. So, if you can be in Phoenix, AZ this October and want to talk about what the future holds for us in PowerPoint design and delivery, I look forward to seeing you at The Presentation Summit.
– Troy @ TLC
This day, July 31, is noted as the birthday of the PowerPoint application! It has come a long way since its humble beginnings as a grayscale Mac only app! Here is a great story and quick history of PPT from the inventor of the software, Bob Gaskins, in today’s BBC online.
– Troy @ TLC