MS Teams Previews Photoshop Files!
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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Pantone 2023 Color of the Year – Viva Magenta
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):
- Pantone Color of the Year started in 1999.
- Each year Pantone has a global team of color experts that are not all Pantone employees.
- Colors are recommendations based on anything and everything that influences color; entertainment, travel, lifestyles, etc. and a study of trends, but not a timely fad (note: the color may not be a fad, but the tagline, “welcome to the Magentaverse”, definitely is!).
- The process is generally identify, and agree, on a color. Then continue the process to determine the shade of that color.
- And it is a global design thing, so I like it 😊
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New Episode, The Presentation Podcast (episode 164)
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.
New Podcast – episode 163 with Eyeful Presentations!
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!
PowerPoint and Podcasts
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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PowerPoint Big and Small (part 2)
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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Slidewise and NXPowerlite – 50% Off!!!
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.
PowerPoint Big and Small
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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New Podcast Episode – “No, we don’t do that”
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.
So, You Work With Your Spouse!? (A New Podcast Releases Today)
Troy and Lori Chollar of TLC Creative Services spend some time with Mike and Jenn Parkinson of Billion Dollar Graphics for a fun conversation about working together as owners of creative industry companies. It is an unscripted, random, and amazing conversation – join them!