Some thoughts about colour
them to colour text, especially in diagrams, it will look nice. Test colours not just on your own If you use colours correctly, there is actually no need to put your corporate logo very prominently the recognisable look & feel instantly. Make sure you use the correct colours instead of on each page to remind the audience what company they are listening to. Colours will give the page Colourful_assortment_of_paper_clips_(10421946796).jpg Some thoughts about colour Colour . Which colours can you use often, or for large surfaces, and which ones are meant as accent colour only
Colour schemes that work in PowerPoint
, mint green, used as accent colours in compositions that are dominated by grey shades and big black I am still breaking my head on this, but some colour schemes look great when you see them presented Colour keep things readable on mobile devices). Colours that come out poorly: earthy tones: brown, olive , curry, faded red, faded blue Colours that come out great: bright and fresh purple/red, pink/blue Colour schemes that work in PowerPoint
You can't argue about taste...
Colour
Why are all your images black and white?
choice. SlideMagic is all about business presentations, not art. More colours require additional grey with one accent colour that should match the dominant colour in your logo. This is a pragmatic . Why? SlideMagic uses (and encourages you to use) a sober colour scheme: basically different levels of Colour good. Full colour images introduce colours to your slide that might not always match your colour design skills to get it right. Too many colours can make a slide busy, can create inconsistencies
Lighter variants of your presentation color
that too many colours makes your slide deck cluttered, hence SlideMagic only allows one :-) ). The Colour coloured surfaces. Another approach building on this: Create a shape with the dark colour over a darker, the other way around though can create a problem for very saturated colours. You don’t notice theme colour (deep purple in this case) and you need variants of it. (This presenter figured out default model to make colour changes is to modify its brightness. It almost always work to make things
Think of image colour
Think of image colour keyword, but also pay attention to colour. And not just your accent colour of your brand book, but also complementary colours. We will add this colour filtering to the feature pipeline of SlideMagic. I am Colour
Color conspicuousness
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Messaging group avatars
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Picking a useful accent colour
SlideMagic uses a simple colour scheme: (just) one distinct accent colour and lots of shades of Picking a useful accent colour Colour white/grey/black. What are good accent colours? One that stands out (This is the tricky bit): One with
Changing the color of the French flag
Colour
Cinematic colours
Cinematic colours very distinct visual style. This blog highlights colour patterns of selected scenes. Nice inspiration for your presentation if you like light pastel colours. http://wesandersonpalettes.tumblr.com/post/117849683385/concierge-and-how-long-will-you-be-staying-with
SlideMagic slide search results now in colour
white because I would be sure that the photos would not clash with the accent colour for the slide came at a price: slide templates all looked a bit sad. This is not only due to the greyscale colours SlideMagic slide search results now in colour still a bit tired) and images in slide templates now show up in colour. It is worth the trade-off I users had picked (most users will swap SlideMagic blue for their own logo colour). That worked, but it Colour , but also because of the way the greyscale filter was applied: many colours were translated into too
Finally, a color picker...
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Matching text and image colours
.. adjust the text colour to the image (see example) Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash Full colour images can clash with the colour palette of your presentation colour scheme. Three Matching text and image colours
Too much colour (2)
concept of the narrow coloured bar replacing a fully coloured slide object. Too much colour (2)
Slide search results in your own colours
Slide search results in your own colours in SlideMagic blue, 4x3 aspect, but in your own personal colour palette, and in your own preferred
Hey, where is the colour?
: because I matched the colours of the presentation to the colours of his brand; shades of grey plus a Hey, where is the colour? the deck with out the distraction of clashing colours. Definitely not a presentation with a 1980s, pre-colour monitor, look and feel. strong blue as accent color. These type of colour schemes are actually my favourite ones. They look
PPT for Mac colour bug workaround
below shows how normally text get rendered differently even if you apply the same colour code to it same colour.You can see how I selected the text, and picked the line option from the format ribbon (#!@$#@). Below that, the same text, with the same colour, but now with a tiny outline (same colour Microsoft PowerPoint 2011 for Mac renders colours of shapes and text differently, it has given me : create a thin outline in the same colour as the text around your characters, done! The screen shot PPT for Mac colour bug workaround
How to pick a nice accent colour
practical consideration though. Try picking a colour that gives enough contrast with both white and black characters. It creates a lot of possible colour combinations without a lot of colours. Example How to pick a nice accent colour You can't argue about taste when selecting your colours for your look and feel. There is a
Fix the PPT for Mac colour bug
set it to the same colour: PowerPoint will render it incorrectly Here is the fiddly part: repeat The colour rendering bug in Microsoft PowerPoint 2011 for Mac is highly annoying. Here is fiddly a trick to get around it. You basically need to goal-seek the text colour into something you like . Pick a colour you like, draw a shape and fill it with the colour Write some text in a big bold font and Fix the PPT for Mac colour bug colour by adding/subtracting the R, G, and B differences between the colours. This will be your text
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