1 CA203 Presentation Application Changing Presentation Colors Lecture # 6

Tariq Aziz, Dammam Community College 2 Objectives ✔ Switch to a different color scheme. ✔ Create a color scheme. ✔ Add colors that are not part of the scheme. ✔ Color and shade a slide background.

Tariq Aziz, Dammam Community College 3 Color Scheme Every presentation you create with Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003, even a blank one, has a set of colors associated with it. This color scheme consists of eight complementary colors designed to be used for the various elements of a slide—background, text, lines, shadows, fills, and accents 1.Colors used for title text and body text 2.Colors used for background, fills, and shadows 3.Colors used for hyperlinks, fills, and accents such as bullets

Tariq Aziz, Dammam Community College 4 Color Scheme In this chapter you will: –View and choose a color scheme, –Change a scheme’s colors, –Create a new color scheme, and –Add additional colors. –You will also add first a colored background and then a textured background to a slide.

Tariq Aziz, Dammam Community College 5 Switching to a Different Color Scheme To view a presentation’s color scheme, you click Color Schemes in the Slide Design task pane. Format  slide design The Slide Design task pane displays all the color schemes that you can apply to the presentation You can also choose a different color scheme or create your own color scheme

Tariq Aziz, Dammam Community College 6 Switching to a Different Color Scheme Each PowerPoint color scheme consists of a palette of eight colors. These eight colors correspond to the following elements in a presentation: –The Background color is used for the “canvas” of the slide. All other colors must show up against it. –The “Text and lines” color must contrast with the background color so that the text shows up clearly.

Tariq Aziz, Dammam Community College 7 Switching to a Different Color Scheme –The Shadows color is generally a darker shade of the background so that it produces a shadowed effect behind objects. –The “Title text” color must also contrast with the background color because the slide titles need to stand out. –The Fill color is used to fill objects and must contrast with both the background color and the color used for text and lines.

Tariq Aziz, Dammam Community College 8 Switching to a Different Color Scheme The primary Accent color is designed to complement the colors of other objects in the presentation. The “Accent and hyperlink” color is designed to complement the colors of other objects and is also used to draw attention to hyperlinks. The “Accent and followed hyperlink” color is designed to complement the colors of other objects and is also used to mark visited hyperlinks. HW

Tariq Aziz, Dammam Community College 9 Creating a Color Scheme You can create a new color scheme by altering an existing color scheme. You can then add the new scheme to the list of available schemes, You can modify any or all of the colors within a color scheme to create your own color combinations You can apply your color scheme changes to one slide or to an entire presentation To change colors, you open the Edit Color Scheme dialog box from the Color Schemes You can select colors from a standard color palette or specify a color based on RGB

Tariq Aziz, Dammam Community College 10 Adding Color not Part of Scheme Font Color button on the formatting toolbar

Tariq Aziz, Dammam Community College 11 Coloring and Shading a Slide Background In PowerPoint, you can customize the background of a slide by adding a color, a shade, a texture, a pattern, or even a picture. A shaded background is a visual effect in which a solid color gradually changes from light to dark or dark to light. PowerPoint offers one-color and two-color shaded backgrounds with six styles: horizontal, vertical, diagonal up, diagonal down, from corner, and from title.

Tariq Aziz, Dammam Community College 12 Coloring and Shading a Slide Background For a one-color shaded background, the shading color can be adjusted lighter or darker, depending on your needs. You can also choose a preset color background, one of 24 professionally designed backgrounds

Tariq Aziz, Dammam Community College 13 Coloring and Shading a Slide Background you can give the slide background a texture or a pattern, or you can use a picture.

Tariq Aziz, Dammam Community College 14 Chapter 6 Summary You can change the colors in your color scheme, choose a different color scheme, or create your own color scheme. You can apply the color scheme to one or all the slides in a presentation. You can modify any or all of the colors within a color scheme to create your own color combinations. You can apply your color scheme changes to the current slide or to the entire presentation. In addition to the eight basic color scheme colors, you can add more colors to your presentation. Colors that you add to a specific color palette appear in all color palettes and remain there even if the color scheme changes. You can add a color, a shade, a texture, a pattern, or even a picture to the background of one slide or all slides. PowerPoint has several different textures, patterns, and pictures that you can apply to a presentation.