In PowerPoint may exists different reasons to insert a picture placeholder into the slide. For example, if you are designing a PowerPoint template for your organization, then you may be interested to place a placeholder so the final employees can replace the image with a final image or picture. But there may exist other reasons [...]
PowerPoint 2010 comes with a nice recolor feature that lets you easily replace the current image color using a gallery with new color effects. This can be really convenient if you need to replace the color of a picture. Recolor picture in PowerPoint can be useful for example if you are using a picture but [...]
Sometimes we need to extract an image from a PowerPoint slide. This can be achieved very easy in PowerPoint 2010 using the Save As Picture option in the context menu. In order to access this option, locate the image that you want to save as picture and then right click over. A new context menu [...]
If you are concerned about the output quality of your images in PowerPoint, then you may be interested to learn more about image resolution and the advanced options in PowerPoint that let you handle this properly. In PowerPoint, you can access advanced options page with a list of additional options that let you customize the way [...]
If you need to customize your bullet lists then using custom icons in bullet point is possible. Here we will show you how to add custom bullet icons to PowerPoint unordered links. Let’s imagine that we want to display a custom hand icon as bullet point. Then we can get some free icons from Free Hand [...]
This article will explain how we can add an image placeholder in PowerPoint in the same way we do with text using Lorem Ipsum strings. The difference here is that we will use images instead of text. There is a free service named Lorempixel that let us generate free images as placeholder. Using the service is [...]
CanvasDropr is an online service that provides you with a virtually infinite online canvas on which you can add photos and apply a lot of different operations like rotate, resize, position, etc. CanvasDropr can be used to brainstorm ideas previous to presentations but also for meetings or just as a global brainstorm with your team. [...]
We already know that it is possible to export your PowerPoint presentations to images (a single slide or every slide in your presentation) using the File -> Save As option. However, if you need to do this programmatically you can use VBA Visual Basic for Applications to achieve this task. This can be helpful for example if [...]
Web or software developers may find themselves trying to automate the export operation of a PowerPoint file to image or HTML for different reasons, either if you want to setup a PowerPoint sharing platform on the Internet or if you have an Intranet in your organization and you are managing an IT department and need [...]
PowerPoint has a lot of features that we can use to handle images in the presentation slides. Cropping and resizing is maybe one of the most unknow features for many, however these features are very powerful and we can take advantage of crop and resize to enhance our presentations with images. Resize and crop in [...]