Oct 19, 05 - Transparent Montages in PowerPoint
Have you ever wanted to fill a picture with a gradient
- or another picture in PowerPoint? Have you wanted
to blend two pictures in PowerPoint to create a montage?
More importantly, have you been frustrated running
images between Photoshop and PowerPoint to achieve
some simple effects (like the ones shown below)?
Let
me show you how to do this...

Oct 11, 05 - Consistent Color Palettes in PowerPoint
You’ve
spent a lot of time designing a presentation template.
The background image is just right, the fonts are defined,
line spacing and bullet points are formatted, and the
company logo is clean and well-presented. Now, how
do you marry the rest of your graphic elements to the
template to keep the design consistent across your
presentation?
Julie Terberg
teaches you how consistent color palettes can help...

Oct 10, 05 - InsertPicture for PowerPoint:mac
InsertPicture allows you to insert tons of pictures
at one go into PowerPoint slides so that you can feed
a whole folder of pictures to PowerPoint at one go
- no more going to the Insert | Picture menus a hundred
times!
Learn
more here...

Oct 8, 05 - Royalty Free Music
The three most popular phrases used to describe the
offerings of music production libraries like UniqueTracks
are:
- Royalty free music
- Stock music
- Buy-out music
Of the three, the most accurate, to me, is stock
music because it implies a collection of media that
is immediately available to be used in production creation.
Read more
with John Bickerton...

Sep 14, 05 - AutoShape Magic
Announcing the release of AutoShape
Magic, a free add-in for PowerPoint.
AutoShape
Magic for PowerPoint allows you center your objects
on a slide. You can also increase and decrease the
size of your shape in fixed increments and use some
preset gradients as fills.
You can add a direction for a gradient, or alter the
direction - and swap fill colors for gradients and
patterns.

Aug 29, 05 - Relational Presentation Part II
They
desperately needed a cohesive strategy for moving forward.
On this day, grim-faced department heads slowly shuffled
into a meeting room, preparing to face the situation.
Everyone expected a contentious and volatile event.
To their surprise, something very different occurred…
Read
more with Robert Lane...

Aug 23, 05 - PowerPoint Ezine 61
Indezine Photos
Announcing New Templates
pptXTREME Color Picker Sweepstakes
Focus on DataPoint
PowerPoint Versions
and more...
Read
now...

Aug 8, 05 - Multiplication Table
Download a free
Multiplication Table...

Aug 6, 05 - PowerPoint Ezine 60
Indezine Photos
Announcing Green Gaze
Bio Meadows Sweepstakes
Focus on pptXTREME SoftShadow
Focus on Relational Presentations
and more...
Read
now...

Aug 6, 05 - Mac's Page Curl
Mac’s Page Curl is a freeware page curl filter
created by Mark McLaren. Although the homepage of Mac's
Page Curl says it is compatible with Paint Shop Pro,
it actually works with all applications that accept
Photoshop compatible plug-ins.
Read
more...
Jul 20, 05 - PowerPoint Ezine 59
Indezine Photos
Announcing Vacation
Marbled Magic Sweepstakes
PowerPoint Live Sweepstakes
James Ontra on Ontra Presentations
Adrian Doyle on Perspector
and more...
Read
now...

Jul 12, 05 - Relational Presentations : The Alternative
to Traditional PowerPoint
What if a speaker could jump around not only within
a single slideshow but between hundreds, or thousands,
or even tens of thousands of slides? Could I create
an environment with ultimate freedom, where every possible
slide is available at the click of a mouse, anytime,
from anywhere? Robert
Lane explains more...

Jul 11, 05 - Creating PowerPoint Presentations from
Word Outlines
Microsoft Word often acts as a storyboard in the foundation
stage of a concept. It is quite normal to find people
creating plans and jotting inspirations in Word to
form outlines which can be refined and fine-tuned to
be used later as content for brochures, press releases
and presentations. In this article, we'll discuss ideas
that help create complete presentations within PowerPoint
from suitable Word content. Read
now... 
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Jul 09, 05 - PowerPoint Ezine 58
Indezine Photos
Announcing Full Circle
Camtasia Sweepstakes
Betsy Weber on Camtasia
Rick Altman on PowerPoint Live
and more...
Read
now...

Jul 01, 05 - The Rick Altman Interview
Rick
Altman is all set to host the third annual PowerPoint
Live event this year in San Diego from September
25th to 28th. In this exclusive Indezine interview
are all the questions you wanted to ask him - the
interview turned out so good that Rick mirrored it
on the PowerPoint Live site! In
this interview, Rick discusses PowerPoint Live like
never before...

Jun 29, 05 - PowerShrink 1.3
PowerShrink 1.3 includes several new improvements
including a new wizard that will help you compress
your PowerPoint presentations.
Read
more...

Jun 26, 05 - Perspector 2.3
The new 2.3 update, which is free to registered users
of the earlier versions includes several usability
improvements. The most noticeable change is the first
icon called Panel - and this is actually the harbinger
of all new changes in this update of Perspector.
Read
more...

Jun 24, 05 - PowerPoint Ezine 57
Indezine Photos
Announcing Americana
Kaleidoscope Sweepstakes
Ron Leishman Cartoons
PowerPoint Assistance
and more...
Read
now...

Jun 8, 05 - PowerPoint Ezine 56
Announcing Good Earth
MessagePoint Sweepstakes
Clearengine
and more...
Read
now...

May 31, 05 - PowerPoint Ezine 55
Free Backgrounds
NewTek Tricaster
MessagePoint Sweepstakes
iWand Presenter
and more...
Read
now...

May 20, 05 - AKVIS Coloriage
Coloriage is a plug in to color black and white portraits,
photos and for changing the colors in colored images.
Coloriage is from AKVIS, a company based in Russia
that specializes in graphics programs and scientific
research. Apart from Coloriage, AKVIS also creates
other Photoshop compatible programs like retoucher,
Chameleon, Stamp and Enhancer. Read
more...

May 17, 05 - ConceptDraw
Although PowerPoint has a plethora of options as far
as creating info graphics is concerned, there are umpteen
ways of making better info graphics outside PowerPoint.
Microsoft offers Visio as an interesting option – but
then Visio is an enterprise level product more geared
towards large organizations rather than everyday PowerPoint
users. If you identify with this situation and want
a product with a reasonable amount of choices and possibilities, you
might want to look at ConceptDraw...

May 16, 05 - The Golden Triangle - Presenter, Audience,
and Slides
We have seen it countless times before, but this latest
one was particularly poignant. The intelligent presenter,
with something important to say, who got lost in her
slides. She started out beautifully, introducing herself
and her ideas, standing before a well-designed title
slide. Rick
Altman explains more about the Golden Triangle...

May 10, 05 - Announcing PowerPoint Backgrounds
Announcing free PowerPoint backgrounds for you to
use. Download
now...

May 4, 05 - Business Presentations Survey Results!
If you are making more PowerPoint presentations in
your job these days, you’re not alone. According
to findings of a recent poll1 conducted by Geetesh
Bajaj of Indezine and Claudyne Wilder of
Wilder Presentations, 61 percent of professionals say
they will make between one and thirty presentations
this year -- two-thirds of whom expect to deliver 30
presentations or more by year’s end. Everyone,
it seems, has more presentations to give. Read
more...

Apr 20, 05 - PowerPoint and ActiveX
So you think you know PowerPoint? Good. Now you're
ready to learn some really interesting techniques.
For example, have you ever wanted to have a text box
that can be edited while a show is running? Have you
ever had more text than room and wished you could create
a scroll bar? Have you ever wanted to use PowerPoint
as a quiz or survey? Then
read on…

Apr 18, 05 - The Jan Ozer Interview
Jan Ozer has worked with digital video since
1991, originally in the video compression industry
and since 1996 as a contributing editor for EventDV
and PC Magazine. Jan teaches courses in digital video
production, both privately and for the University of
Wisconsin Department of Continuing Education, and shoots
and produces DVDs for local musicians near his hometown
in Galax, Virginia. In
this interview, Jan discusses PowerPoint, the book
and video stuff...

Apr 18, 05 - Encoding Video for PowerPoint
A codec is a compression technology, and you have
several choices. I like Windows Media for two reasons.
First, at similar data rates, Windows Media quality,
when encoded using variable bit rate techniques, exceeds
the quality of all competitive technologies, except
for RealVideo, which is neck and neck. Jan
Ozer explains more..

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