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Can slides be sexy? What were you imagining when you read “sexy slides”? Some super hot model in bare essentials selling your product, or something else? Fashion presentations can have the luxury of making bold and sensational slides and yes, they would be sexy slides.   But every slide can be sexy- marketing pitch, sales […]

“Words are all I have to take your heart away” “Lord Polonius: What do you read my Lord? Hamlet: Words, words, words.”   Sorry for this cheesy opening. But the only intention behind pinching the line from Bee Gee’s song and Shakespeare’s play was to underscore the importance of words in our life. Words carry […]

“You don’t know how to use Slide Master!” a shocked HR professional said when I revealed that I had never used the same. “It saves a lot of time,” she continued. “It kills creativity,” I argued (I remembered the boring to death HR presentations).   What could be the harm in knowing how to use […]

Unless you are a photographer, chances are that you may be unaware of the composition technique called the Rule of Thirds. It’s a big deal in the photography world. Anybody enrolled in a design school or photography course will learn this rule at the outset and perhaps create all artistic work based on this principle. […]

Ever thought of adding a crawling line of text in your presentation?   First of all, it sounds interesting. Secondly, it is an unusual way of sharing an information with your audience. Thirdly, it will keep your audience hooked to your presentation, minute they enter the hall.   News ticker is a text based display […]

Giving animation to the slides takes the presentation to a whole another level. It keeps your audience glued to their seats, helps you put forward your points with ease. It showcases your creativity and make your presentation impressive.   Those who have tried animation in PowerPoint must agree with what we have said, and those […]

The best things come in small packages. For presentations, they come in the form of Icons. These small visual representations of ideas can metamorphosize a run-of-the-mill slide into one designed by some top design agency. Icons can work wonders for your presentation in the shortest time and without spending a penny.   Yet icons are […]

Bullet points are boring. Bullets points are dreadful. Bullet points are unending and long. Bullet points suck.   Bullet points are pretty much one of the most hated things in PowerPoint presentations. That’s unfair. Just like it’s wrong to criticize PowerPoint software for horrendous presentations, it’s equally unfair to blame bullet points for an ugly […]

Creating a Presentation IS a very interesting task. Creating a Presentation IS a very creative job. Creating a Presentation IS a very easy thing to do.   ...said the most successful presenters.   Yes, no sarcasm was intended there. If you have ever been applauded for your presentation and people have requested for a copy […]

Colors speak a language of their own. A language that has been universally understood even before Sir Isaac Newton created the first color wheel back in 1706.   Our past associations and everyday observations color the way we decode colors. Bright sunny mornings bathed in yellow sunshine naturally elicit happy emotions in us. It also […]