Your First PowerPoint Animation

June 27th, 2011

Downloading an animation from PresenterMedia is an easy process, but if you’ve never used an animated file (.gif) in your presentations before, there are a couple of pitfalls to avoid.  Watch this short new video tutorial from PresenterMedia co-owner, Art Holden, to see how simple it is.


Click the Play button above.
How to download animations for PowerPoint
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Covered in this video:

  • For PowerPoint, always download the largest animation available.  This yields the best quality.
  • After clicking the download link, always choose “SAVE” to save the image to your computer.  Choosing OPEN may end up removing the animation from the image.
  • In PowerPoint, always use the “Insert/Picture” function to place the animation in your presentation.  Inserting it as a video or copying and pasting it into your presentation can yield poor results.

View all our Animations for PowerPoint.

Trophy and Award Clipart

June 15th, 2011

We’ve been asked to create some more images and clipart that could be used for presentations about celebrating victories or recognizing achievements or successes.   We’ve recently added some new ribbons, trophies, and some 3D stick figure receiving awards.

We're Number One

Number One Team Celebration

A team of stick figures celebrates being number one by holding up a large gold Number One.

Team Trophy

A team hold up a large golden trophy.

Three teammates carry a giant golden trophy in celebration of their victory.

Figure awarded a Blue Ribbon

A 3D stick figure is awarded a Blue Ribbon.

In this award clipart, a 3D stick figure hold up his Blue Ribbon in recognition of being in first place.

If there are other awards or trophy ideas you would like to see added to the PresenterMedia library please let us know.

You can view all our 3D clipart here.

New Real Estate Clipart

June 15th, 2011

Real estate markets continue to be weak.  Even here in the Midwest where we’ve been relatively immune from the worst of the Great Recession our housing market continues to be soft.  But if it’s any indicator, and it probably isn’t, the demand for real estate clipart and images continues to be strong.  We recently received several requests for more realtor and real estate images from our subscribers.

We’ve released a some more housing images this month.

Toy House icon sold

A stylized house icon with a sold sign.

This stylized house icon was created by PresenterMedia artist Josh Doohen.

New house on giant key

A suburban single family house sits on a large gold key.

A concept clipart of buying a new single family house.  The house sits on top of a large golden key.

Buying a brand new house

A concept of a newly constructed home.

A brand new house is wrapped with a red ribbon in this concept clipart by Judd Albrecht.  A great image to illustrate the buying of a brand new house or to indicate a newly constructed home.

Here are some examples of previous real estate images we have created.

You can also view our complete collection of 3D clipart here.

Anatomy of a PowerPoint Template

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.

Risk Management Images

May 17th, 2011

We were recently asked by a few of our subscribers to create some new Risk Management images and clipart.  Specifically images related to risk control, risk assessment and risk measurement.  A couple of our artists, Josh Doohen and Art Holden, worked together to take the popular risky dice images to create this new series of risk management clipart.

risk measurement

Clipart of Risk Measurement

A 3D stick figure uses a tape measure to evaluate a tower of dice with the words RISK on them.  A concept of measuring or evaluating risk.

Risk Control

Clipart of Risk Control

A fence surrounds a set of dice with the words risk in this clipart concept of controlling risk.

Risk Assessment

Clipart of Magnifying glass and Risk Management

A magnifying glass takes a closer look at the risk dice in this concept of Risk Assessment.

If you have other ideas for risk management graphics please do not hesitate to let us know.

View all our 3D clipart here.