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Template Background Design

When creating a custom PowerPoint template the first step is developing the custom artwork for backgrounds. I am going to break down a template recently designed. In PhotoShop I pull in all of the visual assets and stylize an appropriate to the theme canvas for the PowerPoint slides. Here is the content slide design for the “Blue Lens” template.

There are a lot of layers to create the desired effect. Here is the PhotoShop layers for this template (shows both the Content and Title slide background layers). Fortunately this was a fairly light template in terms of layered elements so we can show them all in one easy screenshot.


This is a pet peeve, but I really hate receiving Photoshop files with none of layers named – it’s is a huge waste of my time to go hunting for a needed layer by turning on and off layers. So, as seen, I always label all layers in PhotoShop so modifications are easy because the layers can be quickly identified.

I save out each of the backgrounds as a .jpg with a compression level of 10. From there it is all PowerPoint!

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-11-17T12:42:56-08:00September 1st, 2008|Portfolio, Tutorial|

More Show Photos

Here are photos from another show last month. This one was a bit more eleborate staging – and yes the logo on the left is in French. Left screen was French content, Center screen images, Right screen English content.

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-11-17T12:50:13-08:00July 11th, 2008|Personal, Portfolio|

Recent Show

The past few months have been busy with lots of travel to shows. Here are a few quick photos from 1 of the 5 meetings/shows I handled the PowerPoint graphics for last month.


– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-11-17T12:50:36-08:00July 9th, 2008|Personal, Portfolio|

It Takes A Lot Of Images To Convey A Message

I am preparing material for a PowerPoint/Design course and this is screen capture of my images folder from a recent project. My message is that a presentation is more than bullet points and an image can be more effective. I practice that message and this is shows the number of images prepared in Photoshop for a recent presentaiton.

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-11-17T12:57:59-08:00June 6th, 2008|Portfolio, PowerPoint|

PPT Graphics for Video

PPT 2007 has some great visual effects. For a recent project I was developing the PowerPoint presentations for speaker support. I was asked by the video production company that was creating videos for the same meeting if I could create a number of graphics that would have a coordinated look with the presentations. Among the graphics I developed these two piecharts (client data removed):

Each was saved out of PowerPoint as a .png which preserved the transparency and allowed the video editor to place the graphic over the motion background. They also animated from 1 piechart to the other showing growth. Pretty cool stuff!

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-11-17T12:59:13-08:00June 2nd, 2008|Portfolio, Tutorial|

Color for the Medical Template

To help a medical device company stand out I introduced some bold coloring. I also used shadowing, bevels and negative space to create the content area. Here is the template developed for medical device maker, Zylon.

1. Theme Graphic
2. Title Slide
3. Content Slide

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-11-17T13:08:08-08:00April 25th, 2008|Portfolio, PowerPoint|

Dark Knight PPT

I recently had a project with the upcoming Batman movie, The Dark Knight. Had a lot of fun getting sneak peaks at images and footage of the movie. I was tasked with developing a PowerPoint template that carried the dark color scheme and edgyness of the movie. Of course using an all black color pallette is not that easy, but it did prove to be a fun challenge! Here are the 3 slide layouts used for the template:

1. Theme Graphic
2. Title Slide
3. Content Slide

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-11-17T13:09:20-08:00April 23rd, 2008|Portfolio, PowerPoint|

Logo Sample

Here is one of the logo concepts developed for a series of presentations.

All design was done in Illustrator to create scalable vector art (logo was used from presentations to print pieces to large banners). From there it was imported into photoshop and saved as a .png with transparency for use in presentations.

Note: we developed many logo concepts and this was my favorite, but not the “winner”.

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-11-17T14:51:30-08:00November 7th, 2007|Portfolio|

New TLC Webpage on Webcasts

In preparation for this weeks audioeducator.com web conference I put together a quick webcast on TLC Creative Services webcast development services.

Note: I recorded the audio in a hotel room while traveling last week, so this is not the final version.

Just wanted to get something out there for the many attendees (to the audioeducator conference) to see. Thought I would share it with everyone here and later I will have a small series on using PowerPoint as a layout tool for webcast development.

Click here to open the TLC Creative webcast page.
Click here for the audioeducator info page on my conference.

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-11-17T14:50:46-08:00November 5th, 2007|Portfolio, Tutorial|
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