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Beware if you are still creating slides full of bullet points!   Very soon, you will find audiences leave the hall in disgust or hold a placard in protest “No Bullet Points, Please.” Already you will find them moan in pain as soon as they see a bullet-ridden slide. That’s not surprising. The audiences are […]

Have you heard of the word Priming? More popularly used in psychology, it “refers to an increased sensitivity to certain stimuli due to prior experience.” After watching a scary movie alone at night, you become more sensitive and thus primed to slightest noises around you like creak of the bed and rustling of leaves outside […]

Color is fascinating. It is stimulating. It is like the universe itself- Infinite.   No matter how much you read on colors and their meanings, color theories, color wheel and types of color schemes, importance of color in design and what not, it still appears fresh and enlightening. Such is the power of colors- it […]

Many presenters are using images horribly in their presentations!   From pixelated visuals to copyright images with watermarks clearly visible on them to many other disasters, presenters are coming up with unique ways to kill all the fun. Are you guilty of poor selection of visuals? Are your experiments at creating visual slides turning into […]

PowerPoint 2013 has some amazing features that are no less than those offered by Photoshop and other image editing softwares. One such effect that I love the most personally is the ‘Merge Shapes’ feature that lets you create breathtaking effects.   One such effect (we gave it away in the the banner image of this […]

UPDATE: The highlight picture effect explained in this article was created in PowerPoint 2013. Users of PowerPoint 2010 have to customize their PowerPoint Ribbon to use this hack. Please see the steps given at the end of this article to create this effect in PowerPoint 2010.    There are many times when you need to […]

Gradients can be a tricky thing. If done right, they can make your slides look artistic and professional. If messed up, they can cause a disaster (read Death by PowerPoint).   We know plain white color can become a bit too boring. Solid colors are a safe bet. Rich, warm colors like orange can make […]

“Now at our studios we don’t write our stories, we DRAW them.” Walt Disney   Storyboards, one of the essential tools in making of animated movies, happens to be one of the most neglected practices in designing a PowerPoint presentation. The most common reason could be that many are not aware of this technique. If […]

2017 is here. And it is going to be good, nay great, for presentations. Already by the end of 2016, presenters were expressing the desire to make their presentations better. They want their presentations to be visual, interesting and modern.   What stopped them from doing that in 2016? The management pressure to conform to […]

This article guides you how to create a professional PowerPoint Template in 10 minutes that you can use for the next 10 years- without paying a penny to a professional designer.   Your Presentation Template is the face of your brand. When you are out there pitching to your target audience, investors, and external public, […]