Color and texture in PowerPoint ® presentations Created by Adam Warren Adapted for CD

Better Than Bullet Points. Copyright © 2008 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Reproduced by permission of Pfeiffer, an imprint of Wiley. Transparency color fills Every shape has a Fill color and Line color – this is a plain (flat) color fill You can select colors from the default ‘color wheel’ or choose your own custom shade You can also control the transparency of a fill – this one is 50% transparent

Better Than Bullet Points. Copyright © 2008 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Reproduced by permission of Pfeiffer, an imprint of Wiley. Selecting color fills Right-click on the object and choose Format AutoShape from the pop-up menu

Better Than Bullet Points. Copyright © 2008 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Reproduced by permission of Pfeiffer, an imprint of Wiley. Selecting color fills Make sure the Colors and Lines tab is selected Then click the Color selector arrow

Better Than Bullet Points. Copyright © 2008 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Reproduced by permission of Pfeiffer, an imprint of Wiley. Selecting color fills You can use No Fill to make the object transparent … or click to choose any of these standard colors … or click to choose any of these recently-used colors … or click to choose from a wider selection of colors (see next two slides)

Better Than Bullet Points. Copyright © 2008 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Reproduced by permission of Pfeiffer, an imprint of Wiley. Standard colors This tab selects the Standard color wheel Click to choose any of these standard colors Note the shades of grey Note the transparency slider and % control

Better Than Bullet Points. Copyright © 2008 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Reproduced by permission of Pfeiffer, an imprint of Wiley. Custom colors This tab selects the Custom color selector Click and drag to select the basic color you want Then drag the slider up or down to adjust the shade Note the transparency slider and % control You can also enter RGB or HSL values directly

Better Than Bullet Points. Copyright © 2008 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Reproduced by permission of Pfeiffer, an imprint of Wiley. Transparency Graduated fills This is a basic graduated fill, top to bottom, from the color selected to a darker shade This is a graduated fill, from the centre, between two selected colors This is a preset graduated fill (Chrome 2) with transparency

Better Than Bullet Points. Copyright © 2008 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Reproduced by permission of Pfeiffer, an imprint of Wiley. Graduated fills Right-click on the object, select Format Autoshape and then Fill Effects

Better Than Bullet Points. Copyright © 2008 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Reproduced by permission of Pfeiffer, an imprint of Wiley. One-color graduated fills Click to choose the Shading style (direction) and then the Variant You can also control the transparency of the fill For one-color fills you select the basic color and then adjust the dark/light slider – look at the Sample Note this option… Select the Gradient tab

Better Than Bullet Points. Copyright © 2008 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Reproduced by permission of Pfeiffer, an imprint of Wiley. Two-color graduated fills Click to choose the Shading style (direction) and then the Variant You can also control the transparency of the fill For two-color fills you select both colors – look at the Sample Note this option…

Better Than Bullet Points. Copyright © 2008 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Reproduced by permission of Pfeiffer, an imprint of Wiley. Preset graduated fills Click to choose the Shading style (direction) and then the Variant You can also control the transparency of the fill For preset fills you select the one you want from the list – look at the Sample Note this option…

Better Than Bullet Points. Copyright © 2008 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Reproduced by permission of Pfeiffer, an imprint of Wiley. Transparency Texture fills This is a texture fill, based on an image of sack-cloth If you enlarge or stretch the object, the texture is ‘tiled’ to fill the new shape – note you cannot change the size of the texture This is a texture downloaded from the Web – with 50% transparency applied. Link:

Better Than Bullet Points. Copyright © 2008 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Reproduced by permission of Pfeiffer, an imprint of Wiley. Texture fills Right-click on the object, select Format Autoshape and then Fill Effects

Better Than Bullet Points. Copyright © 2008 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Reproduced by permission of Pfeiffer, an imprint of Wiley. Texture fills Alternatively, choose another image file (JPG, GIF, BMP) from your file Don’t forget to scroll down! Select the texture you want from those provided Select the Texture tab

Better Than Bullet Points. Copyright © 2008 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Reproduced by permission of Pfeiffer, an imprint of Wiley. Texture fills Note that not all textures will “tile” seamlessly – you may want to use a Picture fill instead.

Better Than Bullet Points. Copyright © 2008 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Reproduced by permission of Pfeiffer, an imprint of Wiley. Photo fills This is an original digital photo, imported directly using Insert > Picture > From File This is the same photo, used as a Fill for this “explosion” AutoShape

Better Than Bullet Points. Copyright © 2008 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Reproduced by permission of Pfeiffer, an imprint of Wiley. Photo Fills If you re-size these objects you will scale and distort the photo (change its aspect ratio). Remember to resize and compress photos to keep the size of the PowerPoint file as small as possible. This image is a 640x480 pixel copy of the 1280x960 original image, and consequently only adds 40 kilobytes instead of 576 kilobytes to the file-size. You can use the same image more than once without adding to the PowerPoint file size.

Better Than Bullet Points. Copyright © 2008 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Reproduced by permission of Pfeiffer, an imprint of Wiley. Photo Fills Note that you cannot reposition the image within the shape (e.g. to center the robot head in the star) so you may need to edit your image before use. This image was cropped square so the head was larger and central. The background was also edited for extra effect.

Better Than Bullet Points. Copyright © 2008 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Reproduced by permission of Pfeiffer, an imprint of Wiley. Photo fills Right-click on the object, select Format AutoShape and then Fill Effects

Better Than Bullet Points. Copyright © 2008 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Reproduced by permission of Pfeiffer, an imprint of Wiley. Photo fills Select the image file you want (JPG, GIF, BMP) from your files Select the Picture tab

Better Than Bullet Points. Copyright © 2008 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Reproduced by permission of Pfeiffer, an imprint of Wiley. Photo backgrounds This background image is a 1024x768 pixel JPG file imported in the usual way: Insert > Picture > From File 1. right-click on the image and choose Format Picture, then set its Scale to 75% on the Size tab 2. reposition the image so it covers the entire slide area You can easily use an image as the background to a slide 3. select the image, then choose Order > Send to Back from the Draw menu at the foot of the screen

Better Than Bullet Points. Copyright © 2008 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Reproduced by permission of Pfeiffer, an imprint of Wiley. Photo backgrounds 6. explore the Image control options to adjust the brightness and contrast Alternatively, you could make more sophisticated adjustments in an image editor like Photoshop before importing the image 5. right-click on the image and choose Format Picture, then select the Picture tab

Better Than Bullet Points. Copyright © 2008 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Reproduced by permission of Pfeiffer, an imprint of Wiley. The Slide Master If you want to design and use a standard background for every slide in your program, add the images and objects to the Slide Master (template): View > Master > Slide Master If you want to use an image for just some of your slides, create the first slide, copy it and then edit the content of the copies. You can easily copy-and-paste slides using the Slides pane on the left of the screen and the standard Copy and Paste.