Give the Gift of PowerPoint

Editor's Notes

1. Finding the perfect present or card for your friends and family can be hard right?
2. This Christmas there’s something for everyone
3. This Christmas there’s something for everyone
4. Give the give of PowerPoint!
5. The conscientious elves at BrightCarbon have been working hard to create a little Christmas treat to share
6. The conscientious elves at BrightCarbon have been working hard to create a little Christmas treat to share
7. So take a look at our festive cards
8. So take a look at our festive cards, learn some PowerPoint tips,
9. So take a look at our festive cards, learn some PowerPoint tips, and then download your favourite!
10. Build a Snowman
11. Invite your friends to build their own snowman in this fun interactive Christmas card!
12. Top Tip: The levers are all triggers and the ‘READY’ button is a hyperlink to the next slide!
13. Top Tip: The levers are all triggers and the ‘READY’ button is a hyperlink to the next slide! You can use triggers to create all sorts when you’re telling a story
14. Top Tip: The levers are all triggers and the ‘READY’ button is a hyperlink to the next slide! You can use triggers to create all sorts when you’re telling a story Everything from turning on the lights on your PowerPoint Christmas tree to showing extra bits of information in your next training presentation!
15. Snowman’s Adventure
16. This adventurous snowman decides to leave the comfort of his snowglobe for a more digital sphere.
17. Top Tip: Getting the little snowman to look one way and the next is really easy – you need two snowmen with slight differences and use a contract animation on the first, and expand on the second.
18. Top Tip: Getting the little snowman to look one way and the next is really easy – you need two snowmen with slight differences and use a contract animation on the first, and expand on the second. You can try this with all sorts, but why not try using it to make a coin spin round…?
19. Monster Christmas
20. Fire-breathing dragons in the city? Sounds dangerous! This one brings a little festive cheer!
21. Top Tip: this slide was built with simple PowerPoint shapes
22. Top Tip: this slide was built with simple PowerPoint shapes Use the freeform tool to create custom shapes (right click for ‘Edit Points’ and more editability)
23. Festive Castle
24. What’s inside the festive castle? An easily-editable series of text boxes and photo frames so you can share you year with the ones you love
25. Top Tip: Making a template for someone else to use is easy
26. Top Tip: Making a template for someone else to use is easy All you need to do to change something like this is to alter the text and right click the picture and choose ‘Change Picture’.
27. Top Tip: Making a template for someone else to use is easy All you need to do to change something like this is to alter the text and right click the picture and choose ‘Change Picture’.
28. Christmas Tree
29. See what happens to this hapless driver on the way home from the mountains with his Christmas tree.
30. Top Tip: to create the idea of movement group objects together and have them track over the screen using a motion path
31. Top Tip: to create the idea of movement group objects together and have them track over the screen using a motion path If you have them tracking at different speeds, it will give the idea of relative movement!
32. Christmas Dates
33. Are you tempted by the tinsel app? See who’s given it a go in this Christmas card!
34. Top Tip: Give your presentations a more up-to-date feel by mixing in real-life images.
35. Top Tip: Give your presentations a more up-to-date feel by mixing in real-life images. Try and think about how you can use the pictures to create an editable template – phones and computer screens work really well.
36. Top Tip: Give your presentations a more up-to-date feel by mixing in real-life images. Try and think about how you can use the pictures to create an editable template – phones and computer screens work really well.
37. Christmas Lights
38. Nothing says Christmas quite like bright neon lights!
39. Top Tip: To create the effect of lights flickering on and off, use an appear and disappear animation in quick succession.
40. Silent Night
41. Or why not go for something a little more traditional?
42. Top Tip: Using a grow/shrink animation on your objects will give you an idea of perspective.
43. Top Tip: Using a grow/shrink animation on your objects will give you an idea of perspective. As you zoom out everything should get smaller (though not at the same rate)
44. Which one is your favourite?
45. Click here to download it now!