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
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
Hanging Out with PowerPoint Gurus
Last week I had opportunity to spend some time with a group of the Korean PowerPoint MVPs. Despite communication challenges we showed off some recent projects and I do not need to understand a presentation to be impressed by it. This group of guys can put together an animated slide that is tops!
– Troy @ TLC
Greeting from Seattle!
Yesterday was a fantastic day of hearing from the PowerPoint program managers, developers and more at Microsoft. Lots of great energy and truely one of the best teams of people in the entire company.
– Troy @ TLC
Microsoft MVP Summit 2008
I missed a few posts last week and I hope you have gotten more sleep than me lately. My project load has been huge and I have been trying to complete a number of projects in anticipation of heading up to Microsoft for the the MVP Summit this week.
I am looking forward to a great time, learning lots of new things about the future of PowerPoint and getting some time with many great friends!
– Troy @ TLC
Quick Before-&-After slide
Much of my time is spent interpretting information and creating a visual design that simplifies and makes it look ‘nifty’. Here is a quick before-&-after from a recent presentation.
Before:
After:
– Note: slide loses a bit of visual aesthetics as client content and template removed. Also, the animation is not seen, which helped emphasize the yellow section remained consistent over the 2 years. My slide was also built using PPT2007 visual effects.
– Troy @ TLC
Trouble with Flash Player…
So I recently went through some issues installing a PowerPoint add-in. It relies on Flash, but did not recognize it was already installed. In troubleshooting I found a couple of nice tools from Adobe and lots of information on the Flash Player.
For me it turned out that I needed to register the flash player with the add-in, which was a solution provided on their website. But should you need to take further steps here are a few useful tools:
What version is installed?
– Click here to go to this website and it will run a system check and tell you exactly what version and build of Flash player is installed on your computer.
How do I remove it?
– Click here to download Adobe’s Flash Removal Tools.
– Troy @ TLC