First Theme Template

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Okay, finally we get to the design to the best and most engaging part. At first, you want to select a photograph. I have selected this photograph to be my main theme for the first slide. Okay, so I'm dropping that in. Okay, as you can see, we have the picture in, I will just quickly delete the existing elements on the slide. So I have total freedom of designing, and you can see what PowerPoint did.

He did narrow down this photograph to the width of the slide, but we still have to adjust the height. In order to do this. The simplest way will be to use the cropping functions, please, by having the picture selected, go to Format. Go to crop and pick crop. Now we can take the crop area, I can make the area bigger here on the top finger here on the bottom. And I can again, go to crop, click on this drop down menu and select fill.

Of course I can make the picture bigger if I want, but if I want it like this, I'll select the fill option and it will definitely fill the entire area. Okay, again clicking on crop and we have this prepared. The second element we added is going to insert shapes and selecting a rectangle. Please do the same. Select a rectangle and put it here. Okay, we have the rectangle, it doesn't matter how big the rectangle is, we will enlarge it.

And for the fill, I want you to click on fill, select No fill. I want you to select outline, select white color and now I want you to select outline Wait and select more lines because six point, this won't be enough, I want this to be really thick. Okay, so I'm selecting more lines. So automatically the format shape options appear. And in the width, I'll make it about, I don't know, maybe 10 points. Okay.

Okay, I made more I made 14 points. And right now, this could stay in the middle. This also looks very interesting and we could put some text here in the middle, but I want to be consistent as to what I did previously. So I enlarge this. Now, I want you to come closer, you can come closer by selecting left Ctrl or Command key and scroll scrolling forward. I'll go to the very top side.

And look what we have the line here. But the stroke extends on the left and right side of the line. So you need to be wary about that. And we could of course, enlarge it like this. It would be standing out outside of the slides, but I like to be like, clean and have it to the exact size of a slide. So I'm pulling it like this.

Okay, a little higher here in the top side, I can see we have a slight mistake here. Okay? It's kind of extended, it can be extended a little bit isn't a big problem. Okay, and now I want to extend it here on the right bottom side, okay, unless I fill it perfect. So we have this shape outline prepared, we have a nice white border around this. What I did later on, I just freestyled by going to insert shapes and selecting a very normal standard rectangle shape and just putting it like this.

Okay, perfect. We can do the same since we selected no outline this time. This time. I want the shape to be filled with white and I want it to be a bit smaller. Okay, about this size Ctrl D to duplicate and put it on the bottom side. So this will make like the canvas for our design I made such a super canvas that I made one additional element and we can now judge if everything is okay.

If everything is okay, we can add the text on the previous slide. Whereas it come on over on the previous slide, we did some text here on the top on the bottom and body text in the middle. We can do the same or we can just use the fake serif text normally to do this, you are going to insert on the right side you have textbox and you will insert a text box like this. This will be my jungle text. Okay, right now it's invisible, ugly black text. So you want to try and click on this.

You want to change the fonts to the fake serif or any font you deleted or you downloaded And installed, deleted and I want to make this font white. Once I have this white, I will enlarge this. So I see what is going on on the screen. And actually, this looks pretty okay, pretty engaging. So I'll just center this text we can always take the elements we created and put them above and beyond the existing text we now created. And this could be just as well, our our design but let me be consistent.

Let's do it like previously. As you can see, right now I will just copy the text over and do all the elements. What a font. This is what I wrote previously. I will select my left ctrl key and left the bracket key to make this smaller. You can see the shortcut by hovering your mouse over c Ctrl Shift and this left, increase and decrease So I'm using the brackets or Ctrl Shift and this left side, I don't really know how it's called.

Okay, and I have no trouble selecting this bottom white one, this is a problem of PowerPoint, I'm holding Shift to make it go down Ctrl D to duplicate this, put this on the bottom. Now I want this to be a bit higher. You can see PowerPoint has difficulties when it comes to selecting objects, but we have to somehow work around this again Ctrl D, and here both the text and for this body text. As you remember, we have this delude type font. Exactly. Exactly what I said it's the boat looks pretty cool.

The bolted light normal. Maybe let's check the normal This is engaging texts. When it's pretty big like this, it's really engaging. So I'll leave it like that because previously, I had just some small lorem ipsum text okay Ctrl A to select everything, how to make this a bit smaller. Now it is a matter of adjusting everything to the size you are desiring and how you want this to look. This is just a matter of clicking around and finding the sweet spot for everything up to you.

See you in the next lecture. I wish you best of luck.

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