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Sunday, July 23, 2017 – Permalink –

Hue has the Color

Interactive Color Wheel

Richard Franzen has an interactive color wheel that you may want to play with.
You can experiment with saturation, intensity, hue, and luminosity.

SIH Wheel

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<Doug Klippert@ 3:30 AM

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Saturday, July 08, 2017 – Permalink –

Color Feels Right

Colors and emotions

When you're mad, do you see teal?

"Color plays a vitally important role in the world in which we live. Color can sway thinking, change actions, and cause reactions. It can irritate or soothe your eyes, raise your blood pressure or suppress your appetite.

When used in the right ways, color can save on energy consumption. When used in the wrong ways, color can contribute to global pollution.

As a powerful form of communication, color is irreplaceable. Red means "stop" and green means "go." Traffic lights send this universal message. Likewise, the colors used for a product, web site, business card, or logo cause powerful reactions.

Explore : The concept of color can be approached from several disciplines: physiology, psychology, philosophy, and art."

ColorMatters.com

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Thursday, July 21, 2016 – Permalink –

Color News

A multidiscipline subject

Here is a study about how color effects a reader's choice of concentration.

It was intended for newspaper publishers, but the same knowledge can be used in Web design, PowerPoint, or any other reporting application. Word and Excel will also benefit.

Color, Contrast, and Dimension in News Design

Color Project

The Poynter Institute is a school for journalists, future journalists, and teachers of journalists.
Poynter.org

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Monday, May 30, 2016 – Permalink –

BW to RGB

A Kansas trick

Have you seen The Wizard of Oz lately? The film starts out in black and white. Then when Dorothy opens the door in Oz, the movie suddenly switches to full color. Why not try the same effect in a presentation?

To see how this would work, run PowerPoint and open a blank slide. Choose Insert>Picture>ClipArt and insert any picture. Now, choose Insert>Duplicate Slide to copy the slide. Go back to the first slide now, and select the picture by clicking it. When the Picture toolbar opens, click the Image Control button (second from the left) and choose Grayscale.

Now, choose Slide Show>View Show. When the first slide appears, click the mouse to move to the second slide. The ClipArt picture remains in place, but suddenly appears in color.

Sue Whitehouse

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Sunday, April 03, 2016 – Permalink –

Re-Color Transparent

Change clip art

Re-color

Select a piece of clip art in WMF (Windows Meta File) format .

The Picture toolbar should appear.
(If the bar does not pop up, go to View>Toolbars and click on "Picture".)

Move the mouse pointer over the toolbar icons until you find "Recolor Picture". Click on the icon.

(In 2007+, it is located under Format in the Adjust group on the left."Recolor>Set Transparent Color")

You can now change any of the fill or line colors in the image.

Transparent

If the graphic is in BMP (Bitmap) format, there is an icon on the Picture toolbar to "Set Transparent Color".

Click the icon then click on the color in the image that you would like to make transparent.

Also:

Indezine:
Recolor Clip Art in PowerPoint
by Geetesh Bajaj

Semi-Transparent Images
By Glen Millar PPTWorkbech.com
You can produce various levels of semi-transparent images for applications right within PowerPoint, save them, and keep them for reuse.

AwesomeBackgrounds.com:
Tutorial about the transparency options in PowerPoint

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Saturday, January 16, 2016 – Permalink –

Photo Mélange

Colorize without Adobe

Photoshop is a great program, but sometimes you just want to add a little pizzazz without the hassle.

Geetesh Bajaj has once again come up with a "Why didn't I think of that!" technique.

" Have you ever wanted to fill a picture with a gradient - or another picture in PowerPoint? Have you wanted to blend two pictures in PowerPoint to create a montage?

Transparent montages in PowerPoint

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<Doug Klippert@ 3:12 AM

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