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- rob1
Hey,
Do you guys usually worry about the resolution when designing a background template for powerpoint? Do you create it at a certain resolution (300, 150, etc). Does it even matter at all?
Thanks.
- fusionpixel0
300 if the client requests or they are extremly picky, Some dont mind the extra weight as long as their presentations look nice and crispy.
150 standard.
72 if it is really cheap project and has to be one of those "I need it yesterday!"
- rob10
cool dat, fusionpixel.
- radar0
it's screen resolution 72 DPI, the only reason a higher DPI would come into play is if your printing the slides, anything over 72 is just add weight to the presentation.
- Ramanisky20
I usually go 1024 x 768 at 72 dpi
or you can go 1280 x 960 at 72
but thats gonna increase the size of the entire presentation
- rob10
thanks for the tips!
- JazX0
vector?
- ants0
hey here's a question... does anyone know a portfolio (preferably online) that has Powerpoint as a genre of work?
It would be interesting. (or really bad)
- rob10
I've never seen that before....it would seem kinda odd to have that in your portfolio. unless you're just starting out maybe or a recent graduate...but even then, it would still be a bad choice of projects to show.
If you have it on your resume, then you would want to have some examples in yor back pocket to show, but not as one of the main pieces of your portfolio.
- fusionpixel0
you will be surprised how many ppt presentations are created every day, not just because we are web based that means that there are people out there who dont need PPTs.
A lot of people need PPTs to do their annual reviews and such. and the "good" thing about them is that they dont need to call the designer to do simple text changes or so. PPTs can be powerful if used correctly.
THere are couple of sites out there that do a lot of PPT presentations and they have a section on their sites to show off.
- danthon0
PPT slides are 960x720 px
if you need a size to think about in inches think 7.5x10 @ 96
- Ramanisky20
http://ramilob.nobilid.com/flash…
click on the small blue squares to begin the navigation
This is where I work
http://www.presentationpro.com/C…
- danthon0
*Please read before creating any powerpoint*
The Closing of the PowerPoint Mind
A culture that raises its children on the milk of the moving image should not be surprised when they prove unwilling to wean themselves from it as adults. Nowhere is the evidence of this more apparent than in the business world, which has become enamored of and obedient to a particular image technology: the computer software program PowerPoint.
PowerPoint, a program included in the popular “Microsoft Office” suite of software, allows users to create visual presentations using slide templates and graphics that can be projected from a computer onto a larger screen for an audience’s benefit. The addition of an “AutoContent Wizard,” which is less a magician than an electronic duenna, helpfully ushers the user through an array of existing templates, suggesting bullet points and summaries and images. Its ease of use has made PowerPoint a reliable and ubiquitous presence at board meetings and conferences worldwide.
In recent years, however, PowerPoint’s reach has extended beyond the business office. People have used PowerPoint slides at their wedding receptions to depict their courtship as a series of “priority points” and pictures. Elementary-school children are using the software to craft bullet-point-riddled book reports and class presentations. As a 2001 story in the New York Times reported, “69 percent of teachers who use Microsoft software use PowerPoint in their classrooms.”
Despite its widespread use, PowerPoint has spawned criticism almost from its inception, and has been called everything from a disaster to a virus. Some claim the program aids sophistry. As a chief scientist at Sun Microsystems put it: “It gives you a persuasive sheen of authenticity that can cover a complete lack of honesty.” Others have argued that it deadens discussion and allows presenters with little to say to cover up their ignorance with constantly flashing images and bullet points. Frustration with PowerPoint has grown so widespread that in 2003, the New Yorker published a cartoon that illustrated a typical job interview in hell. In it, the devil asks his applicant: “I need someone well versed in the art of torture—do you know PowerPoint?”
People subjected endlessly to PowerPoint presentations complain about its oddly chilling effect on thought and discussion and the way the constantly changing slides easily distract attention from the substance of a speaker’s presentation. These concerns prompted Scott McNealy, the chairman of Sun Microsystems, to forbid his employees from using PowerPoint in the late 1990s. But it was the exegesis of the PowerPoint mindset published by Yale emeritus professor Edward Tufte in 2003 that remains the most thorough challenge to this image-heavy, analytically weak technology. In a slim pamphlet titled The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint, Tufte argued that PowerPoint’s dizzying array of templates and slides “weaken verbal and spatial reasoning, and almost always corrupt statistical analysis.” Because PowerPoint is “presenter-oriented” rather than content or audience-oriented, Tufte wrote, it fosters a “cognitive style” characterized by “foreshortening of evidence and thought, low spatial reasoning ... rapid temporal sequencing of thin information ... conspicuous decoration ... a preoccupation with format not content, [and] an attitude of commercialism that turns everything into a sales pitch.” PowerPoint, Tufte concluded, is “faux-analytical.”
Tufte’s criticism of PowerPoint made use of a tragic but effective example: the space shuttle Columbia disaster. When NASA engineers evaluated the safety of the shuttle, which had reached orbit but faced risks upon reentry due to tiles that had been damaged by loose foam during launch, they used PowerPoint slides to illustrate their reasoning—an unfortunate decision that led to very poor technical communication. The Columbia Accident Investigation Board later cited “the endemic use of PowerPoint briefing slides instead of technical papers as an illustration of the problematic methods of technical communication at NASA.” Rather than simply a tool that aids thought, PowerPoint changes the way we think, forcing us to express ourselves in terms of its own functionalities and protocols. As a result, only that which can be said using PowerPoint is worth saying at all.
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