Maximizing PowerPoint for Social Media Graphics
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This document provides a tutorial for maximizing the use of graphics in PowerPoint presentations for social media. It demonstrates how to download and install a new font called Aku & Kamu, create pictographs by inserting text and images onto a blank slide, and remove backgrounds from images. The tutorial contains step-by-step instructions and examples for designing slides with combinations of text and images to create graphics for social media.
Maximizing PowerPoint for Social Media Graphics
- 1. Maximizing PowerPoint for Social Media Graphics
- 2. What is a PowerPoint Presentation? It is a software program commonly used as a digital aid in presentations that consists of a number of different slides that utilizes graphics, text, pictures, sound, movies.
- 4. Learn to use PowerPoint graphics using a new font.
- 7. From Desktop, click either Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome CLICK
- 8. And this screen will open.
- 9. We will use a new font. Aku & Kamu
- 10. Type Aku & Kamu in Google. Aku & Kamu Font
- 11. It opens to this screen.
- 12. Click Aku & Kamu Font 1001 Free Fonts CLICK
- 14. CLICK DOWNLOAD
- 15. Notice the small screen pop up.
- 16. CLICK the OK button on the small screen. CLICK
- 17. Now, the application is stored in Downloads.
- 18. Double CLICK this tiny arrow inside the circle.
- 19. This small window will pop up.
- 20. CLICK this.
- 21. You are directed to this window.
- 22. Click encircled Aku & Kamu below.
- 23. Click Install.
- 24. Viola. Find the downloaded Aku & Kamu Font now installed!
- 25. You now have successfully installed a new font, Aku & Kamu in Microsoft PowerPoint. Aint that COOL?
- 26. Now ready for that Ommph in Social Media Graphics?
- 28. But wait! Where can I find that font, again? ? ?
- 29. 1. Go back to Desktop.
- 30. 2. Hover the cursor at the top right portion of the screen.
- 31. 3. This portion pops up.
- 32. 4. Click this Search Icon.
- 33. 5. The Search bar opens to this screen.
- 34. 6.Type PowerPoint in the blank. PowerPoint
- 35. Now, we are ready to create wonderful and amazing graphics with Aku & Kamu.
- 36. So, how does the following poster appeal to you?
- 40. Or this
- 42. Pictographs.
- 43. a pictorial symbol for a word or phrase. Pictograph pic揃to揃graph pikt鼻raf/ noun Source: googel.com
- 44. This is new for me because I was taught way back that Pictographs are graphs in pictures!
- 45. Ill show you how to do this!
- 46. 1. Open Microsoft PowerPoint in your browser.
- 47. 2. We need to change the layout to blank.
- 48. 3. Hover the cursor on slide 1.
- 49. 4. At the same time pressing the right-click button of your mouse.
- 50. 5. Notice what opens up.
- 51. 6. Hover the cursor on Layout. Layout
- 52. Another window opens with different themes.
- 53. Click the Blank Theme.
- 54. This will be our template.
- 55. Click Design.
- 56. Notice the templates available.
- 58. This small window pops up.
- 59. Notice the tiny box that says FILL Color.
- 60. Click Color under FILL COLOR.
- 61. Next window opens that has the color palette.
- 62. Now choose a background color.
- 63. And PLAY!
- 64. Once again From the top. From Blank Template. To Design
- 65. Then Backgroundthen Choose From the Color Palette
- 67. We make something like this. REMEMBER:
- 68. For this exercise, we practice with
- 69. So, CLICK Insert
- 70. Then Click Text
- 71. Position the mouse at the center and CLICK.
- 72. Then CLICK HOME
- 73. Type Aku & Kamu in the font. Aku & Kamu FOREVE R
- 74. And choose your text size. Forev er 150
- 75. And now we need to find
- 78. Go to sites for massive free images are: Search in Free Sites
- 79. freepik.com
- 80. pixabay.com
- 83. Now we use an image from freepik.com
- 84. But we have to remove the background of this image.
- 85. WHY?
- 86. Just like this, yes? REMEMBER:
- 87. First, we get back to PowerPoint home screen.
- 88. CLICK Insert
- 90. Then get the Image from the Uploaded Files.
- 92. Then this screen appears after that.
- 93. Use these to adjust final output.
- 94. Our final output after background is removed..
- 96. Very Quickly: Click Insertthen Picture Then find the picture in the File.. Then Remove Background.
- 97. Final Output:
- 98. Now to assemble both word and images in one slide.
- 100. The following are some more designs I made to hone my skills.
- 106. Hope you enjoyed this tutorial As much as I did! Keep on practicing to harness your skill. Thank you very much! Images from freepik.com