Posts Tagged ‘tutorial’

« Older Entries
Newer Entries »

Getting Started – Animations and Clipart

Tuesday, January 25th, 2011

Welcome to the second installment in our Getting Started series of video tutorials.  This tutorial will give a brief overview of using our 3D animations and clipart in your PowerPoint presentations.

Press the play button to view a video on how to use PresenterMedia’s 3D animations and clipart in PowerPoint.

Covered in this video:

  • Selecting and downloading our PowerPoint animations and clipart
  • Inserting animations and clipart in PowerPoint
  • Customizing the color theme of an animation or clipart to match your presentation.

You may also enjoy viewing our getting started video about our PowerPoint templates.

We hope this helps you get started using PresenterMedia’s animations and clipart.  If you have any questions, please feel free to use the comments section or our contact form.

Tags: , , ,
Posted in Animations, Tutorials | 24 Comments »

Getting Started – PowerPoint Templates

Monday, January 24th, 2011

We’re happy to announce a new series of video tutorials to help you get started using PresenterMedia.  In our first installment, PresenterMedia artist and co-owner, Art Holden, takes a look at using our PowerPoint templates.

Click the play button to view a video tutorial about using our animated PowerPoint templates.

Covered in this video tutorial:

  • Downloading Templates
  • Changing Between Static and Animated Layouts
  • Copying Slides from a Template to an Existing Presentation

We hope that this video is helpful in getting you started using PresenterMedia templates for PowerPoint.  Thank you for watching.

You may also enjoy viewing our getting started video about our 3D animations and clipart.

Tags: , ,
Posted in PowerPoint Templates, Tutorials | 51 Comments »

Change Color of PowerPoint Animations

Monday, December 13th, 2010

We are happy to announce a new feature added to PresenterMedia today.  We have updated our animation customization program to include the ability to change the color, saturation and brightness of any of our PowerPoint animations before you download them.

This feature will allow you to customize our animations to your company’s colors or to match the theme colors of your presentation.

Here is a video demonstration of the new feature:


Press the play button above to watch the video of our new color changer for animations.

We’d love to hear how you are using this new feature.  Leave us a comment below.

Here are a couple of sample animations we made using the new color customizer:

Stick Figure carrying Toolbox animation
Original Red Image

Figure with Green Toolbox
Modified to Green

Stick Figure with Blue Toolbox animationModified to Blue

Try our our new color changer on any of our animated graphics for PowerPoint.

Tags: , ,
Posted in Animations, New Features, Tutorials | 16 Comments »

Combine Slides from Multiple PowerPoint Templates

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010

We’ve had questions about the possibility of combining several of our templates into one presentation.  Essentially, how do you mix and match slides from different animated templates?

It’s actually very easy to do if you are using PowerPoint 2007 or newer.  I’ve put together a video tutorial about how to use the “Reuse Slides” function in PowerPoint 2010 and PowerPoint 2007 to combine slides from various templates.

Click Play to watch Video Tutorial

Note For Combining Several Animated Templates Together.

Remember that the more animated templates you combine the larger your presentation will become.  A number of video files will make your presentation quite bulky.  This could be a problem if you are distributing the completed presentation.

Please leave a comment if you find this tutorial helpful or have any questions.

You can download the templates used in this video here.

Mac PowerPoint 2008 and 2011 instructions.

In Mac PowerPoint, inserting slides from other presentations or templates work pretty much the same way but the command is labeled differently.  The function is located under the “Insert” menu.  Look for Insert/Slides From/Other Presentations.  See screen shot below:

Insert slide from other presentation Mac PowerPoint

Insert Slides from other presentations in Mac PowerPoint 2008 and 2011

In the slide finder, be sure to check “Keep Design of Original Slide” to retain the formatting, animations and other graphic elements.  Otherwise PowerPoint will only copy the text and not slides design.

Insert Slides from other Presentations

Check Keep Design of Original Slides

Tags: , , , , , ,
Posted in PowerPoint Templates, Tutorials | 44 Comments »

Templates Won’t Open in PowerPoint 2010

Wednesday, October 6th, 2010

This post addresses a bug some people are having with PowerPoint 2010 and presentation files and templates which have been downloaded from the Internet.

Behavior:

A .PPT or .PPTX file downloaded from the Internet will not open up in PowerPoint 2010.  PowerPoint 2010 gives the error: “PowerPoint found a problem with content”

This error occurs because some browsers flag a file downloaded from the Internet as potentially dangerous and set a security block on it.  In some cases, PowerPoint 2010 does not know how to handle the security block.

If this is affecting you , the good news is there is an easy work around.  After you have downloaded the file, follow these quick steps.

1.Find the icon for the downloaded file, right click on it and choose “Properties” from the menu that appears.

Right-click on PowerPoint file and choose Properties

2. In the Properties Dialog Box that appears, look at the bottom of the window to see if there is a security block present.  Click “Unblock” and then Apply.

Click Unblock to remove the security block

3. Open the file in PowerPoint 2010 and enjoy!

From what I can tell this affects only some PowerPoint 2010 users, and I would think that the bug will be fixed in a future update for PowerPoint 2010.  A special thanks to PresenterMedia member Jason N. for bringing this to our attention.

Download animated templates for PowerPoint 2010.

Tags: , , ,
Posted in PowerPoint Templates, Tutorials | 3 Comments »

« Older Entries
Newer Entries »