Turning PowerPoint shapes into freeform objects

Turning PowerPoint shapes into freeform objects … Shapes … PowerPoint Ninja blog today on how to transform built-in PowerPoint shapes into free form objects …

Avoid shape outlines if you can

Shapes … I think PowerPoint shapes just look better without a dark line around them. A fill color that …

Who said that PowerPoint shapes always have to fit inside the canvas?

Who said that PowerPoint shapes always have to fit inside the canvas? … Like images, it can also look very nice to let PowerPoint shapes float off the page. Just position … Shapes …

DIY shapes

new custom shape with one of the shape boolean functions (Windows instructions here, on a Mac: select 2 shapes, right click, go in the grouping menu). … DIY shapes … It is hard to get an arrow to point exactly right in PowerPoint. If the standard shapes fail, why … Shapes …

Crop to fill

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Making good diagrams in PowerPoint

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Focus!

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Layering PowerPoint shapes

Layering PowerPoint shapes …

Changing PowerPoint shapes

Changing PowerPoint shapes … Shapes … rectangle into an oval. Select the rectangle, go into the SmartArt menu, select the shapes button, and the select the shape you want instead. …

Simple shapes, powerful message

This image tells 2 things: Have the courage to deviate from standard visual cliches Simple shapes … Simple shapes, powerful message …

Filling shapes with pictures

to fill shapes with pictures enough. It's easy. In format shape, go to fill, and choose texture or … picture, and off you go. The effect is best used with irregular shapes (clouds, stars, etc.) rather than plain rectangles. … Filling shapes with pictures …

Back to the 50s

analogue graphic design masters from the 30s to the 60s. Classic fonts, simple shapes, primitive/manual … Shapes … proportions and shapes. I stocked up on some more books for design inspiration. … here because of rights): basic fonts, basic shapes. The power of the design is solely created by …

Home screen clutter

Shapes … colourful clutter Complicated graphics, or trying to fit in typography does not work. Very simple shapes …

Look at these synergies!

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Movement without animation

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Borrowing frameworks

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Over-used: the temple framework

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A new way to use LEGO in your slides

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Re-post: cutting up shapes

Shapes … Cutting and pasting your object as a PNG image allows you to cut up regular PowerPoint shapes in random components. See an example here. … Re-post: cutting up shapes …

Chart concept - a variation on the Venn diagram

Shapes … position text in the circular shapes. I often use an adjusted version of the Venn diagram, one based on …