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Anatomy of a PowerPoint Template

Wednesday, May 25th, 2011

Welcome to a new video tutorial in our Getting Started with PresenterMedia series.  In this video we will be taking a closer look at our PowerPoint templates and how you can make simple changes to customize the look for your own presentations.

Most of our templates can be edited with the methods outlined in this video.

Press the play button to view a video about changing our PowerPoint Templates.

Covered in this video:

  • Changing Theme Colors
  • Accessing and Editing the Slide Master
  • Changing the Images in a PowerPoint Template
Template Before and After

Change this Chemistry Template into a Leadership Template

If you found this video helpful, you may also like to view our Getting Started With PowerPoint Templates tutorial.

You can view all our PowerPoint Templates here.

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Matching Animation Background Color

Wednesday, April 27th, 2011

Welcome to another Getting Started video tutorial.   We hope these tutorials help you get the most out of your PresenterMedia subscription.

In most cases using the clear background versions of our PowerPoint animations work great.  But in some software, such as Flash, clear animations are not supported.  Here are a few examples when customizing the background color of our animations may be needed.

  • Using a Flash (SWF) animation in Captivate or Articulate
  • Using an animated gif with Keynote on the Mac
  • To get the best image quality possible.

Our customizer application makes it possible to exactly match the background color of an animation to the background of your project.

Press the play button to view a video on how to use PresenterMedia’s customizer to change background colors.

Covered in this video:

  • Finding the exact color value of your presentation’s background.
  • Applying the exact color to a PresenterMedia PowerPoint animation’s background.

If you have any questions, please feel free to use the comments section or our contact form.

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New Features – Tintable Clipart

Friday, March 25th, 2011

We are happy to announce today that we have upgraded our image customizer tool in our 3D Presentation Clipart section.  You now have even more tools available to you to modify our clipart images before you download them.  UPDATE: The tint feature now will also work for our PowerPoint animations.

New Tint Feature

In the customizer check the TINT box to apply a color tint to the entire image.  The HUE, SATURATION and BRIGHTNESS sliders now affect the color qualities of the tint.  Use the tint feature to add color to our gray images to match the color scheme of your presentations.

Samples of Tinted Images

Sample Tinted Images

Screen Shot of Tint Feature

Screen Shot of Tint Feature

My Custom Media Folder

When you are signed it to your account, you may have noticed a new link to My Custom Media in the upper right corner.  Every time you create a custom image using one of our online tools, your final image is saved in the Custom Media folder.  So if you don’t want to wait around for that animation to finish building, you can always pick it up later in your Custom Media folder.

Screenshot of Custom Media folder

Screen Shot of Custom Media Folder

We are working on several new on-line tools to further enhance your presentations.  A tint feature for our animation section will be available in the next few weeks (Note: This is now available).  If there are features you would like to see us add, please let us know.

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Animated PPT Templates & Camtasia

Tuesday, March 1st, 2011

We often get questions about using our animated templates in various software.  One of the most popular questions has been do your templates work in Camtasia? Camtasia is a screen recording and video editing software.  We’re happy to report that PresenterMedia works great in Camtasia.

Below is a video tutorial about PresenterMedia’s PowerPoint templates and Camtasia from Camtasia super trainer, Lon Naylor.  Learn more about Camtasia at Lon’s site, learncamtasia.com.

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Animated Clipart Stops after Saving

Thursday, February 24th, 2011

For a very few PowerPoint users, for some reason PowerPoint improperly applies compression to animated .GIF images when the presentation is saved.  We have been unable to duplicate the problem here at PresenterMedia, but Microsoft acknowledges it here.

If you are one of the few PowerPoint users who have experienced the problem, there is an easy work around.  Unfortunately you need to do this work around every time you start a new presentation that contains animations.

1. Choose ‘Save As’
2. Click the ‘Tools’ options.
3. Choose ‘Compress Pictures’

PowerPoint Compress Pictures

Choose Compress Pictures from the Tools Pulldown

4. Click on ‘Options’

PowerPoint Compression Options

Choose the Options for Compress Pictures

5. Uncheck ‘Automatically preform basic compression on save.’

Automatically preform basic compression

Uncheck Automatically Preform Basic Compression on Save

6. Click ‘Ok’ in the compression settings.

7. Click ‘CANCEL’  on the Compress Pictures dialog.  Choosing OK here will apply the compression and freeze the animations.

Cancel Compression

Choose Cancel to avoid applying the compression.

8. At this point, you can either save your presentation, or go back to working on it.  This setting is now saved as part of the document and you will not need to do it again for this document.

Unfortunately, you will need to reinsert any animations that have been compressed, as there is no way back after the compression has been applied.

If anyone knows why this happens for a few PowerPoint users, we would love to know.  Leave your comments below.

Here is more on this problem from the PPTfaq.

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