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Ways to use color
From the course: PowerPoint: Designing Better Slides
Ways to use color
- [Instructor] Welcome to our long-awaited chapter dedicated to the topic of color, a topic that many find baffling. But first, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. I love coloring, but hate choosing colors. Like, I was super excited when my children began to draw because it gave me an excuse to color and spend time in the evening sitting on the floor, bunched over paper, quiet and still, filling in white places with shades of the rainbow. But I have a little bit of a love-hate relationship with color. The act of coloring, that I find calming. Choosing colors, especially for presentations or for other people, that just feels like a lot of pressure. And there's so many choices. If you are lucky, you will be handed a predetermined brand color palette from your company to work with. But on occasion, that might not be the case, and you will have to choose whether to pick from PowerPoint's stock color themes or to…
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