Archive for August, 2006

Large Scheme in PowerPoint Presentation

Sometimes we need to show large difficult scheme like this one:

What we can do? Put all in one slide? It will be small. But, who says we have only standart slide? We have a lot of place around it! Look:

Using animation we show our scheme in parts. Like this:

This method is good, because it helps us […]

Reuters Doctoring Photos from Beirut?

OK, now things are getting weird.
One Reuters photograph shows blatant evidence of manipulation. Notice the repeating patterns in the smoke; this is almost certainly caused by using the Photoshop “clone” tool to add more smoke to the image.
It’s so incredibly obvious, it reminds me of the faked CBS memos. Smoke simply does not contain repeating […]

The Purpose of Presentation

There are 2 types of presentations:
1. Commercial
These presentations created to bring money. And so for it creation is logically to put up money. But there are a lot of world famous companies which use presentations as main tool for sales, but their presentations aren’t correct and sometimes are terrible. Example:

http://download.oracle.com/oowsf2005/997.pdf
Common style is only in red […]

Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates

Steve Jobs (Apple) and Bill Gates (Microsoft)
Try to uderstand who is who in this small picture? I help you. Bill Gates have a slide with a lot of text. Font is too small, we can’t read it. Headers are in different levels… Can you continue?
Can you describe Microsoft style? But Apple? Simplicity is one of […]

About “PowerPoint” category

Using Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007, a powerful presentation program, you can quickly create dynamic, great-looking presentations using the new results-oriented interface, SmartArt Graphics capabilities, and formatting tools.

http://www.microsoft.com/
It’s not a secret PowerPoint is the most popular program for presentation creation. There are useful advices, interstig articles and advices in “PowerPoint” category.