A significant part of my job involves creating graphic designs. While I can make my way around Photoshop, InDesign, and Premiere well enough when I have to, PowerPoint is my tool of choice for 99% of my design projects. I’m not telling you that PowerPoint can do everything those other tools can do but IContinueContinue reading “Not Just for Slides: Using PowerPoint for Graphic Design”
Category Archives: PowerPoint
An Easy Hack for Finding the Free Stock Photos You Need
Did you know you can use those expensive stock photo sites even if your budget is totally busted? Many designers and developers are limited by small or non-existent budgets and are commonly forced to rely on using free source for their stock photos. While there are tons of great free options with more and moreContinueContinue reading “An Easy Hack for Finding the Free Stock Photos You Need”
Friday Finds | July 14, 2017
Is been a rainy, dreary week here but that isn’t going to stop us from brightening your week with the best things I’ve found this week from the intersection of learning, technology, and social media. Training Tips Weekly by Chris Mattia Whether you’re a corporate trainer or a teacher, Chris Mattia can help youContinueContinue reading “Friday Finds | July 14, 2017”
Friday Finds | July 7, 2017
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Friday Finds | June 30
Here are a few of the things I’m kicking around this week, as we head into a holiday weekend here in the U.S.: Vivaldi browser I’ve been test driving the Vivaldi web browser this week and so far I like it. It has some nice features and unique ways to handle tabs and so farContinueContinue reading “Friday Finds | June 30”
The Quest for a Perfect Icon
Icon Resources Icons can often play an important role in the things you are designing. They are great for helping to reduce text, call attention and a host of other nice benefits. Fortunately, there are a lot of great resources for finding exactly the icon you need. Some of my favorites include: Flaticon Icons8 IconmonstrContinueContinue reading “The Quest for a Perfect Icon”
The Road to Finding the Best Stock Photos Starts Here
These days, it seems we are all crunched for both time and money. We’re trying to do more with less and still continue to get ever improving results. In the course of navigating this challenge myself, I’ve compiled a list of “go to” design resources. There are the places I start when I need designContinueContinue reading “The Road to Finding the Best Stock Photos Starts Here”
The Secret to Working with Vector Graphics in PowerPoint
Many people don’t realize that PowerPoint can be a suitable option for working with vector graphics. Tom Kuhlmann has a nice post on working with .EPS files in PowerPoint. Unfortunately, a recent update has disabled the ability to insert .EPS graphics into Office documents. While there are a number of different types of image formats,ContinueContinue reading “The Secret to Working with Vector Graphics in PowerPoint”
Free PowerPoint Visual Resume Template
Are you looking to stand out from the crowd? A visual resume might be something you should consider. To that end, here is a template created with PowerPoint that will give you a nice head start and help you avoid starting from scratch and recreating the wheel. https://app.box.com/s/jwq8qiesl8r65ybyfis3l56yqp7anakw Don’t forget that you can easily change theContinueContinue reading “Free PowerPoint Visual Resume Template”
12 Super Useful Cheatsheets & Job Aids
Learning & Instructional Design Multimedia Learning Design Principles Based on Richard Mayer’s http://www.slideshare.net/tmiket/multimedia-learning-design-principles Gagne’s Nine Events of Instruction Anyone who designs any kind of learning materials should bookmark this interactive guide to Robert Gagne’s Nine Events of Instruction created by Montse Anderson (@mlearning) Multimedia Learning Design Resources This collection of resources will give you aContinueContinue reading “12 Super Useful Cheatsheets & Job Aids”
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