Colour and texture in PowerPoint presentations

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Colour and texturein PowerPoint presentations

• Adam Warren
• a.j.warren_at_soton.ac.uk023 8059 4486
• University of Southampton Centre for Learning and
  Teaching

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Colour fills
Every shape has a Fill Colour and Line Colour
this is a plain (flat) colour fill
You can select colours from the default colour
wheel or choose your own custom shade
You can also control the transparency of a fill
this one is 50 transparent
Transparency
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Selecting colour fills
Right-click on the object and choose Format
AutoShape from the pop-up menu
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Selecting colour fills
Make sure the Colors and Lines tab is selected
Then click the Color selector arrow
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Selecting colour fills
You can use No Fill to make the object transparent
or click to choose any of these standard colours
or click to choose any of these recently-used
colours
or click to choose from a wider selection of
colours(see next two slides)
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Standard colours
This tab selects the Standard colour wheel
Click to choose any of these standard colours
Note the shades of grey
Note the transparency slider and control
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Custom colours
This tab selects the Custom colour selector
Click and drag to select the basic colour you want
Then drag the slider up or down to adjust the
shade
You can also enter RGB or HSL values directly
Note the transparency slider and control
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Graduated fills
This is a basic graduated fill, top to bottom,
from the colour selected to a darker shade
This is a graduated fill, from the centre,
between two selected colours
Transparency
This is a preset graduated fill (Chrome 2) with
transparency
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Graduated fills
Right-click on the object, select Format
Autoshape and then Fill Effects
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One-colour graduated fills
Select the Gradient tab
For one-colour fills you select the basic colour
and then adjust the dark/light slider look at
the Sample
You can also control the transparency of the fill
Click to choose the Shading style (direction) and
then the Variant
Note this option
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Two-colour graduated fills
For two-colour fills you select both colours
look at the Sample
You can also control the transparency of the fill
Click to choose the Shading style (direction) and
then the Variant
Note this option
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Preset graduated fills
For preset fills you select the one you want from
the list look at the Sample
You can also control the transparency of the fill
Click to choose the Shading style (direction) and
then the Variant
Note this option
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Texture fills
This is a texture fill, based on an image of
sack-cloth
If you enlarge or stretch the object, the texture
is tiled to fill the new shape note you
cannot change the size of the texture
Transparency
This is a texture downloaded from the Web with
50 transparency applied. Link
http//graphicssoft.about.com/od/freedownloads/l/b
ltiles001.htm
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Texture fills
Right-click on the object, select Format
Autoshape and then Fill Effects
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Texture fills
Select the Texture tab
Select the texture you want from those provided
Dont forget to scroll down!
Alternatively, choose another image file (JPG,
GIF, BMP) from your filestore
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Texture fills
Note that not all textures will tile seamlessly
you may want to use a Picture fill instead or
create your own seamless tiles Link
http//graphicssoft.about.com/od/texturespatterns/

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Photo fills
This is an original digital photo, imported
directly usingInsert gt Picture gt From File
This is the same photo, used as a Fill for this
explosion AutoShape
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Photo Fills
Remember to use re-sized copies of your digital
photos to keep the size of the PowerPoint file as
small as possible. This image is a 640x480 pixel
copy of the 1280x960 original image, and
consequently only adds 40 kilobytes instead of
576 kilobytes to the file-size. You can use the
same image more than once without adding to the
PowerPoint file-size.
If you re-size these objects you will scale and
distort the photo (change its aspect ratio)
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Photo Fills
Note that you cannot reposition the image within
the shape (e.g. to centre the robot head in the
star) so you may need to edit your image before
use.
This image was cropped square so the head was
larger and central. The background was also
edited for extra effect.
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Photo fills
Right-click on the object, select Format
Autoshape and then Fill Effects
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Photo fills
Select the Picture tab
Select the image file you want (JPG, GIF, BMP)
from your filestore
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Photo backgrounds
You can easily use an image as the background to
a slide
3. select the image, then choose Order gt Send to
Back from the Draw menu at the foot of the screen
This background image is a 1024x768 pixel JPG
fileimported in the usual way Insert gt Picture
gt From File
1. right-click on the image and choose Format
Picture, then set its Scale to 75 on the Size tab
2. reposition the image so it covers the entire
slide area.
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Photo backgrounds
5. right-click on the image and choose Format
Picture, then select the Picture tab
6. explore the Image control options to adjust
the brightness and contrast
Alternatively, you could make more sophisticated
adjustments in an image editor like Photoshop
before importing the image
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The Slide Master
If you want to design and use a standard
background for every slide in your presentation,
add the images and objects to the Slide Master
(template) View gt Master gt Slide Master
If you want to use an image for just some of your
slides, create the first slide, copy it and then
edit the content of the copies.
You can easily copy-and-paste slides using the
Slides pane on the left of the screen and the
standard Copy and Paste