Graphic design of presentations

The course is designed for all moderately advanced users of MS PowerPoint who want to focus on significantly improving the appearance of their presentations and their visual impact on the audience.

Knowledge of MS PowerPoint at least at the basic course level.

Introduction

• basics of computer graphics
• basics of typography
• basics of composition
• specifics of presentation and slide design
• examples of good and bad presentations and their analysis
• current trends in presentation design

Online resources of slide components

• color schemes
• fonts
• icons, symbols
• Vector illustration
• photos
• animation, video, audio

MS PowerPoint functions needed to design presentations

Settings

• custom image size, resolution
• ruler, grid
• master guides, slide guides

Comprehensive presentation format

• Slide master
• Background
• Styles
• motives and variants
• fonts and theme colors
• template creation

Static components of slides

• text field
• icon, shape
• image, 3D model
• SmartArt
• table, graph
• Third party add-ons

Dynamic components of slides

• custom and embedded animation
• video
• sound

Formatting slide components

• editing slide components
• transformation of slide components
• fills, outlines and effects

Work automation

• keyboard shortcuts
• create your own ribbon panel with frequently used functions

Auxiliary tools (when MS PowerPoint is not enough)

• online tools for bitmap and vector graphics and design
• online file format conversion tools

Previous courses

Microsoft PowerPoint – basic [MSPW1]

Microsoft PowerPoint – Advanced Techniques [MSPW2]

Next courses

Adobe Photoshop – Basic Course [PHSH1]

Adobe InDesign – Basic Course [INDE]

Adobe Illustrator – Basic Course [ILUS1]

CANVA.com, PIXLR.com and VECTR.com – Online graphics [OLG]

Related courses

Microsoft PowerPoint – Creating a corporate template [MSPW3]