While we try to offer you a wide range of pre-designed layouts in our templates, sometimes you need something just a little bit different. Not to worry, our templates come with many easy to manipulate customizable elements to change the whole look of you presentation.
When we are building our PPT templates, we try to leave as many of the design elements intact so they may be further customized. For example we will use PNG images with transparent backgrounds and then layer them in PowerPoint. You can then take those design elements and make more modifications to them. Using PowerPoint’s built in tools, you can change the color, add effects, move, resize, copy and paste to another page, or completely remove the elements from your presentation.
For example I’ll use this template created by PresenterMedia artist, Judd Albrecht.
Image: Atom Molecule PowerPoint Template
The large image of the atom can be removed, resized, recolored, or used in other pages. Here I have resized the atom element to fit with the title. I used the picture recolor tool to change the atom and the swooshes to a lavender color. I also removed the logo place holder in the lower right-hand corner. Here is the end result.
After Customization of the Template
These changes were all made in a few minutes right inside PowerPoint. You can access all the elements, modify the design layouts, and change background by viewing the Slide Master. This is located under the View tab on the PowerPoint ribbon (the tool bar at the top of PowerPoint).
I hope this sparks some ideas as to the versatility of our templates.
Good Presenting!
Art Holden
Co-Owner, PresenterMedia.com
Tags: PowerPoint Templates, slide master, tutorial
Hello, just a quick note to say brilliant! I am involved in training in Road transport these powerpoint presentations are a must in design and help get the message over to the candidates, giving a good base for my subject matter.
Thanks for the kind word Brian, we’re pleased to hear they are a good fit for your presentations.
Art
Can you make a customized animation for me?
I need an image of your stick figure guy in a jail cell.
Hi Deb, that’s a great idea. We should have something created and on PresenterMedia in a few days for you to download.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Art Holden
Co-owner, PresenterMedia.com
Deb, the stick figure in jail animation you suggested has been added to PresenterMedia. You can download it here.
The tree with the roots won’t animate. Just comes up all together. What should I do?
Hi Declan, The first slide in that template is a static slide, slides 2-4 all have the tree and roots animated. Are slides 2-4 not animating for you either?
Art Holden
PresenterMedia
Hey! Is there a way to take the loop off of an animated background? For example, I am working on a presentation for a national conference and we like the water drop background, but we feel the continuous water drops might be too distracting for our audience. Is there a way to allow the water to drop once for each slide?
Hi Terri, Yes you can set the video animation to stop playing when it reaches the end. The videos in our templates are contained in the Slide Master. Under the View tab, select Slide Master. The video will be located on the very first master slide and the second master slide. Select the video, and then under the Video Tools, select Playback and unselect the “Loop Until Stopped” option. Return to your presentation, by returning to “Normal View” under the view tab.
Art Holden
PresenterMedia
Fantastic Job! you are putting in the public hands the necessary tools to built unparalleled presentations. I wonder if would it possible to edit the GIFs to add names to the Animated 3D Characters? Maybe make possible in the animated presentations that shows the Earth with a plane going around it to add your Company name instead of the plane or inside the plane. I will recommend your site to all my friends with 101% of satisfaction. I would like to see some templates examples for Business Intelligence and Database Management. Again excellent job! Contratulations
I do like your ideas, they are just what I’m looking for; a new course/presentation is germinating in my mind right now for Jan 2012 after seeing your presentations materlel.
I’ve been teaching in Continuing Education for some time. One of my issues has been seeing my presentations show up in other areas. I’d like to modify the stick figure to include my logo on it’s chest, or simulate a T-Shirt with the logo. Is this possible?
Hi Rob,
We are looking at the ability to add logos or other customizations to our images. In the meantime you would need to have access to a program like Photoshop to combine our images with your logo.
Art Holden
PresenterMedia