Lorem Ipsum Generator (by Websiteplanet)
The Websiteplanet Lorem Ipsum generator is easy to use and quickly creates standard Lorum Ipsum text.
Lorem Ipsum text is a long standing print layout tool and is a good tool to use for any PowerPoint designer. As example: when creating a template, we generally supply sample slides with lorem ipsum text filling text placeholders so slides can be viewed with a quick simulation of real-world content.
The options can create any number of words, sentences, paragraphs or lines. Set the parameters and click GENERATE. The website instantly creates the text, which can be copy/pasted directly into slide text placeholders.
Troy @ TLC
Mixkit – FREE and Professional Videos for Your Next Presentation
Mikkit a site by Envato has video footage that is free to download. No account or other log in is required, just search and download.
We found the collection is fairly small. Categories range from abstract and animation to transport and lifestyle.
All content is under the MixKit license. Our take on the licensing is it permits you to download, copy, modify, distribute, publicly perform and broadcast the Items. Rights are non-exclusive, worldwide, sub-licensable and attribution is not required (complete user terms are here).
Video files are: 1920×1080, .mp4 file format.
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Troy @ TLC
The Presentation Summit is This October!
This October is the best opportunity for presentation experts to meet with Program Managers from Microsoft, be with the largest gathering of The Presentation Guild members, hear from leading presentation design and talk experts – and give me the opportunity to meet you!
Both Lori and Troy of TLC Creative Services will be presenting at the San Antonio for the 2019 Presentation Summit. I will also be recording several episodes of The Presentation Podcast throughout the week.
Troy @ TLC
How Long Will It Take to Say That?
When developing a presentation, factoring in the talk time is essential. Many of our presentation design projects are based on a talk script. We will run the script through an app that gives us an estimate of how long it will take for that amount of text to be spoken.
One free online tool for this is “Words to Time“. It has some great features to get a better talk time estimate; number of words and reading speed.
It is very fast and easy to convert words to an estimated time. They offer a simple conversion chart for quick reference as well.
As an example, we converted Abraham Lincoln’ Getty Berg Address.
Lincoln’s speech was a small 267 words in total. Using the average reading speed (approx. 130 WMP) Words to Time estimated Lincoln’s speech to be about 2 minutes. According to the history, this is completely accurate! (Source: https://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/civil/jb_civil_gettysbg_1.html)
Troy @ TLC
The Presentation Podcast Episode 81 – Grids, Guides and Gutters
A new episode of The Presentation Podcast with Troy, Nolan, and Sandy is available today! Episode, 81 – Grids, Guides and Gutters. Listen in on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify and Soundcloud – just search for “The Presentation Podcast” – or go direct to the episode page here: https://thepresentationpodcast.com/podcast/81
Welcome to July!
We all have our own jumble of “resources” we use for presentation design; customize PowerPoint and Keynote ribbon and QAT, favorite websites for images – video – ideas, apps for editing video – creating wordclouds – picking colors from the screen. This month the overall them is “Web Resources”. We (myself and the TLC Creative design team) are pointing out helpful websites we have found that help with design.
Troy @ TLC
Canva Presentation Animation Explained
Canva adds notices that if the account is upgraded to a “Pro” account, animation features are added. But the animation is not what you expect. Yes, the content on each slide has entrance effects applied. No, you cannot control the animation effects in any granularity.
When logged in to your Canva account and have a presentation open, in the top right of the editable deck, there is a drop down button with ANIMATION as an option.
There are seven animation options; Fade, Pan, Block, Rise, Breathe, Slide, Instant. The critical thing to understand is the animation style chosen applies to EVERY object on EVERY slide. There is no granular control over what objects animate (everything does) and no selecting different animation styles, or no animation, for specific slides. There is also no customization of the animation duration/speed or ability to add on-click animations to elements on a slide.
The best way I can describe Canva’s presentation animation is it is a combination transition effect that applies an auto entrance to all elements on a slide.
The other critical item to understand about Canva’s presentation animation is an animated presentation is only available when exported as a .mp4 (or .gif). If an edit is made to the presentation, it needs to be exported again to add the animation.
In exporting our sample presentation to view the various animation styling we found a bug that altered the content of our bar chart (if this was PowerPoint I would submit a bug report to the Dev Team). The axis in the presentation itself looks correct but when exported as an mp4 the X axis label text becomes stacked (leaving the data to be interpreted as wrong).
Here is the demo presentation used for testing animation:
FADE Animation
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BLOCK Animation
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RISE Animation
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Troy @ TLC