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July 7, 2026
This issue is about what happens when the right tool removes the friction. Ampler Charts takes the repetitive work out of building and updating business charts in PowerPoint, so you spend less time fixing visuals and more time using them. The KPIs article makes the case that performance indicators are far less intimidating than the acronym suggests. And AKVIS Retoucher AI 13 shows how AI can quietly restore damaged photographs without demanding expert skills. Three very different tools, one shared idea: the best technology gets out of your way.
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You get 8 shape types plus lines as part of this Organic Shapes collection. Each of these 8 shape types have 10 variants. So you end up with 80 hand-drawn shape options! Again each of these 80 shapes have 12 brush stroke styles! Plus you get the lines and arrows in 12 brush stroke styles too. Combine all variations to end up with more than 3000 possibilities.
July 1, 2026
AKVIS provides a range of AI powered photo editing applications that make complex image enhancement tasks straightforward. AKVIS Retoucher AI 13 is designed to make photo restoration and object removal significantly easier and more accurate. The plug in uses AI powered algorithms to repair damaged areas, eliminate unwanted elements, and seamlessly reconstruct missing details in old or imperfect photos.
Explore AKVIS Retoucher AI 13, a Photoshop plug-in that intelligently restores old photographs.
Inserting a New Slide with Copilot in PowerPoint 365 for Windows
July 6, 2026
Writer’s block is not limited to aspiring and professional writers who are trying to craft their next article on deadline or write The Great American Novel. Presenters, too, are frequently faced with having to crank out their next great pitch. Their bar is not as high as that of a solitary writer staring at a blank computer screen or a yellow legal pad. Most presenters belong to a team such as a business unit in a large company or a small start-up, and so, they have access to their colleagues’ slide shows. Therein lies the problem: businesspeople consider their presentations to exist primarily in their decks.
Read more with Jerry Weissman.
July 2, 2026
Walk into any consulting firm or planning meeting, and you’ll probably find someone fixing a chart in PowerPoint. It could be a Gantt chart where the timelines no longer align, a waterfall chart that shifts every time a statistic changes, or a Mekko chart that took so long to build that nobody wants to edit it again. Some of that may sound a little exaggerated, but the larger point still stands. For years, presentation professionals have looked for tools that make chart creation easier and less time-consuming. That’s where Ampler Charts steps in.
July 1, 2026
AKVIS provides a range of AI powered photo editing applications that make complex image enhancement tasks straightforward. AKVIS Retoucher AI 13 is designed to make photo restoration and object removal significantly easier and more accurate. The plug in uses AI powered algorithms to repair damaged areas, eliminate unwanted elements, and seamlessly reconstruct missing details in old or imperfect photos.
Explore AKVIS Retoucher AI 13, a Photoshop plug-in that intelligently restores old photographs.
June 30, 2026
Good presentations don't happen by accident. They begin long before the first word is spoken, with decisions about structure, layout, and precision. This issue covers all three. Smart Dynamic Guides help you place and align objects on a slide without the guesswork. Slide layouts give every slide a purposeful foundation rather than a blank panic. So, we teach you how to change one layout to another. And the Presentation Formula article revisits the art of building a presentation that actually moves an audience. Three different topics, one underlying idea: when the fundamentals are solid, everything else gets easier.
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