One of the best tools for making presentations is the presentation software Powerpoint. Made by Microsoft and bundled in with their MS Word programs kit, the presentation software Powerpoint is included and installed in many computers sold in retail electronics stores across the world. Powerpoint is intuitive and fairly easy to use but you need to be aware of some of the more intermediate to advanced functions in order to make eye-catching presentations.
Being able to create exciting graphic presentations are very important for students, teachers, salespeople, attorneys, businessmen, and anyone else who needs to present a clearly defined set of ideas. The presentation software Powerpoint makes it easy to transform boring business plans into exciting and easy to follow charts and slides.
The presentation software Powerpoint is basically a digital tool that helps you to build customized slide shows on your laptop or desktop computer. With a click of the mouse you can go from one slide to the next easily or make a self-playing slide show that you can email to anyone you like. You can add graphics and photos as well as custom animation sequences and music or speech. The text manager is very easy to use and you can add customized typefaces and fonts so you can get the look and feel that is just right for your custom slide show. If your presentation is about the Wild West for instance, you may want to use some antique or western looking fonts. If your topic is Art Deco, you can easily find a font or typeface like Broadway that looks like it came right from the 1920s.
The presentation software Powerpoint goes hand in hand with other great software products like Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator. You can create customized photo images and collages in Adobe Photoshop and save them as lower resolution tiff files or jpeg files and easily import them into your Powerpoint presentation template. The same thing goes for digital art that you create in Illustrator or Corel Draw. With a couple of quick commands you can import these elements into your custom presentation and make it look even more unique.
The whole point of the presentation software Powerpoint is to enable ordinary people with no graphic arts training to create aesthetically pleasing presentations. One of the most common uses of Powerpoint presentations is for use in new business proposals. When a company wants to win a new business contract they will usually set up a custom Powerpoint show that they can project using a custom projector. Even some digital cameras these days have built in projectors that you can use to show slide shows.
Custom animations are standard components of the presentation software Powerpoint and are easy to use and manipulate. You need to go through the tutorial that comes with the program or read the easy guide but once you have done that it should be easy to add animated elements. These animations are unique and fun and include flying objects that come in from each side, type that appears or fades in, and many other effects. Play around a while and you will see how fun the program can be.