How to create great PowerPoint slides. Top tips and tools to use to create slides using PowerPoint, including fonts, colours and themes.

1. How to create
for presentations
Image via Kevin Dooley

2. slides can
look great and
be informative
Image via John Antoni

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4. More of
and

5. If in doubt, think

6. Image via Lord Jim

7. Find a fantastic free (or three)
Arial
Times new roman Pacifico
Comic sans Bree serif

8. is an awesome resource

9. has a great collection

10. has fonts too

11. Choose and use a scheme:

12. has loads of colour ideas

13. let’s you easily create your own palettes

14. but instantly recognisable brands use it

15. easy-peasy

18. Hmmmm……

19. hoodwolly

20. KatKit

21. Yawoo!

22. Even works in
Even works in

23. yawoo!

24. Even with

25. Doddle

26. But I digress, back to

27. Use nice
Image via Seanmcgrath

28. make use of
Image via Brett Jordan

29. and

30. an entire community of
awesome photos from
real people who share them

31. has
tonnes of immense icons

32. You just have to find and
Image via remography

33. search multiple image
sites with

34. is super cool
at finding creative
commons photos

35. but remember the creative commons
Image via VinothChandar

36. You don’t have to use images for everything, the key is to

37. My process:

38. One more super cool

39. helps identify colours based
on an image url.

40. More slide inspiration

41. more Flickr image inspiration