Every once in a while you come across a platform which is difficult to describe using a single word or phrase. Canva is one such oddity. It is a web app which can be used to design documents, presentations, banners, website and blog graphics, posters, infographics and even Facebook posts.

If you are a web designer the chances are that you have been longing for a good resource that can seamlessly work across conventional computers, tablets and smartphones. Recently, Google launched Google Web Designer which fulfills all these requirements to help users design websites and ads across mobile devices and desktop computers. Google Web Designer […]

Gliffy is a famous web app which has the most prestigious customers on its list including; Twitter, Adobe, Dell, Cisco, Pandora and others. This web app is usually available for a monthly subscription and enables making diagrams, flowcharts, drawings, mind maps and other types of content which can even be used in presentations due to […]

We often come across images from the web that we wish to use for our personal projects and PowerPoint presentations. However, before these images can be used, one may require getting rid of the background to blend the picture with a custom background. Unfortunately, this is not easy to do and many people don’t have […]

Creating color themes isn’t easy and most people find it hard to bring their imagination to good use to create good themes. This maybe a huge dilemma for people looking to create color themes for applications like Adobe illustrator or even Microsoft PowerPoint. Adobe Kuler is a free iOS app that lets you create color […]

Google is committed to make Google Plus a success and recently we could see that our profiles have changed the cover photo dimensions to a bigger size. The new dimensions uses a 16:9 cinematic format, the same we use for our free Business PowerPoint templates in widescreen presentations format. The new Google Plus cover photo […]

In PowerPoint you can make images look transparent by changing the transparency level. Here we will show you how to change the transparency level of your pictures in PowerPoint to make them transparent. What you need to do if you want to make your images transparent is to fill a shape with the image to […]

If you plan to reuse slides for your PowerPoint presentations then you will find interesting to learn more about the Slide Library. You can share and reuse individual PowerPoint slides by storing them in a Slide Library. A Slide Library is hosted on a server running Office SharePoint Server 2007 or Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. […]

In PowerPoint 2010 you can easily change the slide background or presentation background from the Design menu. Here we will show you how to change the background to use a simple background design with gradients. This can be helpful for simple presentations or even for PowerPoint templates. Easily you can change the plain default background […]

PowerPoint 2010 presentation provides Chart layout tool that is used to communicate data graphically. Displaying charts in PowerPoint allows your audience to see the meaning behind the numbers, and they make showing comparisons and trends a lot easier. Learn use of chart layouts in PowerPoint, so that you can communicate your information effectively. To get […]

Using free color tools like Colllor you can find good color schemes to be used in your presentations or designs. This free tool provides you a nice interface to find good color schemes that you can use for example to use in your PPT backgrounds and then find good color combinations for the text and […]

If you use PowerPoint to make your presentations in a particular slide size, let’s say 16:9 so it fits perfectly in a widescreen monitor, then you may be interested to make this the default slide size in PowerPoint presentations every time you create a new blank presentation. You can do this and we will explain […]