In a previous tutorial, we showed how you can
apply a glow effect to a shape
in PowerPoint 2010. In this tutorial, we'll show you how you can change that
Glow Color to any color you want.
Follow these steps to change Glow Color:
- Select any shape that already has a
glow effect applied. Then double click the shape
to activate the Drawing Tools Format tab in the Ribbon (see
Figure 1). Within this tab locate the Shape Styles group and click the Shape Effects button that
you can see in Figure 1 (highlighted in red).
Figure 1: Shape Effects button within Drawing Tools Format tab of the Ribbon
Note: The
Drawing Tools Format tab is a
Contextual tab. These tabs are special tabs in the
Ribbon that are not visible all the time, they only make an appearance when you
are working with a particular slide object which can be edited using special options.
- This brings up the Shape Effects drop-down gallery as you can see in Figure 2. From the
Shape Effects drop-down gallery choose Glow | More Glow Colors (the second from last option in
this gallery).
Figure 2: More Glow Colors option within Glow gallery
- This brings up the Colors flyout menu (refer to Figure 2). Here you can choose any color for the glow using the
following options:
Theme Colors
Here you can select any of the colors which are from the active Theme of the presentation. You can also
select any of the 5 tints or shades of any Theme color. Learn more about Themes here.
Standard Colors
You can choose any of the ten standard colors available, these ten standard colors are just choices of colors that
PowerPoint believes to be widely used. You don't have to limit yourself to either the Theme colors or Standard colors, as we'll show you in the next
options, although it's a good design idea to use Theme colors as far as possible.
Recent Colors
Here you can find the colors most recently used. If you have just launched PowerPoint and created a new presentation,
the Recent Colors option may be entirely absent since you haven't selected any color recently!
More Colors
Provides more color choices, selecting this option summons the Colors dialog box with two tabs:
Standard and Custom. First select the Standard tab (see Figure 3).
Figure 3: Standard tab of the Colors dialog box
This tab offers 127 colors in a honeycomb style palette, 14 gray shades, black and white. You can even change the transparency value of the selected
shadow color in the Transparency slider below, anything from 0% transparent (opaque) to 100% transparent.
If you want more color choices, then select the Custom tab of the same dialog box, as shown in Figure 4.
Figure 4: Custom tab of the Colors dialog box
In this tab, you can chose any color from the spectrum and later adjust the selected color's luminosity with the slider on the right. You can even
enter specific values of RGB and HSL to create a specific color, all these combinations provide 16 million color choices! Again, you can even change
the transparency value of the selected color in the Transparency slider below.
Click OK to exit this dialog box.
- In Figure 5 you can see that the Glow Color of our previously selected Rectangle shape (see
Figure 1) has been changed from red to pink.
Figure 5: Rectangle shape with changed glow color
- Remember to save your presentation often.
See Also:
More Glow Colors in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows
More Glow Colors in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows
More Glow Colors in PowerPoint 2007 for Windows
