How to Add an Overlay to Emphasize PowerPoint Slide Elements [PowerPoint tutorial]

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How to Add an Overlay to Emphasize PowerPoint Slide Elements [PowerPoint tutorial]

PowerPoint tutorial for 💥 http://ift.tt/2uJLfp2 💥 - the 🥇 content repurposing / recontent training online by Ana Hoffman. In this PowerPoint tutorial, you’ll learn how to add overlays to a PowerPoint slide to emphasize various elements of your PowerPoint presentation: text, images, so forth. POWERPOINT TUTORIAL VIDEO TRANSCRIPT: This is Ana Hoffman with Content Boomerang, and in this PowerPoint tutorial, I’ll show my Content Boomerang students how to add color overlays to a PowerPoint slide. A color overlay is simply a layer of color, usually semi-transparent, that's used to (de)emphasize certain elements in a slide. There are many reasons and ways to use color overlays when designing a PowerPoint slide deck. ~ to tone down a bright image ~ to tie an image in with your brand colors ~ to emphasize text ~ to emphasize various slide elements ~ to make a slide more interesting Technically, a color overlay is simply a shape added to the slide. Once the desired shape is added, you can play with its color, opacity (= transparency), and placement. Here are step-by-step instructions on adding a color overlay to a slide. [POWERPOINT TUTORIAL] STEP 1.   Add a shape From your: 1. 'Home' tab 2. go to ’Shapes' 3. Pick a shape (TIP: go simple and clean!) 4. Grab and drag a corner to adjust the size [POWERPOINT TUTORIAL] STEP 2.   Change Color/Opacity There are several ways to do this, but only one of them allows you to preview the color without having to save it first. Whenever you edit a design element, whether a picture or a shape, you'll see the element-specific tab added to the right of the 'View' tab. For instance, if I click on an image to select it, Picture Format tab appear; And if I select a shape, I see a Shape Format option. Let me show you what Shape Format tab looks like. As you can see, all the Home tab options, were replaced by various ways to edit shapes and text. And yes, you CAN make changes to your shape right from here, but you trust me, there’s a better way. Next, I want you to click on Format Pane icon. And that’s where you should edit the shape. Let's sum it up. To edit an overlay (a shape, in other words): 1. Click to select it 2. Go to Shape Format 3. Click on Format Pane icon 4. Edit away to your heart's content Ahem!... didn't really mean that last part. Sure you can add all kinds of effects to your overlay, besides simply changing color and opacity (referred to as Transparency under Format Pane, by the way): texture, shadow, reflection, outlines, and so forth, but please DON'T. Here's the quote to design by. [POWERPOINT TUTORIAL] STEP 3. Position overlay To move the overlay to the desired location, simply grab (press and hold down the button on the mouse), drag, and drop (release the button.) And that’s it, Content Boomeranger! Now go add an overlay - can’t wait to see what you do with this simple, but very effective way to set your slide deck apart. If you are listening to this and don’t yet know what Content Boomerang is, you should definitely check it out. You might be pleasantly surprised to learn that the content you create doesn’t have to rot in your archives, but could be put to work through content repurposing and continue to bring traffic and leads back to your business. I am Ana Hoffman and I’ll see you at ContentBoomerang.Training. POWERPOINT TUTORIAL for 💥 http://ContentBoomerang.Training💥

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