Join Troy, Nolan and Sandy as they dive deep into PowerPoint and talk about the presets that everyone has when they open a default PowerPoint file. And bonus, give your opinion on some of the PowerPoint defaults by joining our listener survey – details in the podcast and in the show notes.
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This is a recent discovery I made – not certain when this feature was added. In Microsoft Teams, opening a Photoshop .psd file now displays a preview of the image (yay!).
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For 2023, Pantone’s Color of the Year is #18-1750 – Viva Magenta.
I like it. It is…
While reading about the color of the year, I learned something I have never read about before – how Pantone picks the color of the year. Overall, as a graphic designer, this was a great read. The key takeaways (for me):
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This is episode 164, which is the final episode of 2022! Troy, Sandy and Nolan have some fun talking about each of their top fives’ of the year. Listen here.
The Presentation Podcast Team; Troy, Sandy and Nolan, are joined by some of the Eyeful Presentations team; Simon, Lloyd and Luke. The conversation this episode is about the business of presentation as we talk about the evolution of Eyeful Presentations has taken its business success and handed over the leadership as an employee owned company!
Generally, The Presentation Podcast is recorded remote with each person at their own place. But at the Presentation Summit I have used the time of so many people gathered in one place to have some in person podcast recordings. Here, at the 2022 Presentation Summit, we gathered 11 of the Microsoft MVPs for a great time together (listen to the conversation here).
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The backside, technical side, of PowerPoint can be big – huge, or small. Image above is me with presentation computers connected to a broadcast TV booth. And image below is me sitting beside the audience and presentation computers connected to a single video switcher. It’s all about designing slides to the audience environment – and knowing how to connect to systems of any size!
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I just received a promo email from Neuxpower, makers of NXPowerlite and Slidewise. I am dropping this post into my planned year-end photos series as it is valid for only a week. I highly endorse both apps for presentation workflow – and both are on sale for an amazing 50% off! Click here for the details.
Our PowerPoint design work covers a lot of presentation setups. In the same month the top image a PowerPoint on a 60′ wide screen, and the bottom image is PowerPoint on an 85″ screen. Design to the size of the screen for your audience!
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As long-time designers, there are design services that once were offered, but not offered any longer. Nolan, Troy and Sandy talk about some of those presentation design and graphic design services that they no longer offer, or sometimes never offered. And this conversation is a continuation of a conversation Nancy Duarte started at the 2022 Presentation Summit when talking about niche focus and offering. Listen here.