How to Make Google Slides Look Good & Professional! *full tutorial*
Summary
TLDRThis tutorial offers a comprehensive guide to revamping Google Slides presentations for a professional look. It showcases how to enhance slides with full-screen images, cropping, and adjusting brightness and contrast for visual impact. The presenter demonstrates adding text boxes, choosing fonts like Poppins for clarity, and using lines and drop shadows for a modern touch. Tips include using slidesgo.com for templates, pexels.com for stock photos, and flaticon.com for icons to avoid a cookie-cutter appearance. The tutorial also advises on aligning text, using transparent boxes for readability, and customizing bullet points with shapes and colors for a dynamic presentation.
Takeaways
- 🎨 To enhance the visual appeal of Google Slides presentations, consider using full-screen images and adjusting their brightness and contrast.
- 📸 Utilize royalty-free stock photo websites like Pexels to find high-quality images for your slides.
- 🔍 Customize slide backgrounds by using images as backgrounds and applying effects like brightness and contrast adjustments.
- 📝 For title slides, use large, bold fonts to make the title stand out and consider adding a line or shape to complement the title.
- 💡 Implement drop shadows to titles or text to make them 'pop' more on the slide.
- 🖊️ Choose fonts like Poppins for a modern look and ensure text contrasts well with the background for readability.
- 📑 Use transparent rectangles or shapes behind text to enhance readability and give a clean, professional look.
- 📈 To make bullet points more engaging, consider using icons and highlighting key information in different colors.
- 🌐 Search for relevant icons on websites like Flaticon to add visual interest and convey information quickly.
- 📐 Maintain a balanced and aligned layout to ensure your slides look neat and professional.
- 🍽️ For food-related presentations, use images of street vendors or popular dishes to connect with the audience and make the content relatable.
Q & A
What is the main issue the speaker is trying to address with their presentation?
-The speaker is trying to address the issue of making Google Slides presentations look more professional and visually appealing to leave a better impression on the audience.
What website does the speaker recommend for Google Slides templates?
-The speaker mentions Slidesgo.com as a website where you can get PowerPoint or Google Slides templates.
What is the speaker's approach to creating a presentation without using templates?
-The speaker prefers to create everything from scratch, starting with a full-screen background image and adjusting its brightness and contrast to make the text pop.
Where does the speaker source their stock photos and videos from?
-The speaker sources their stock photos and videos from Pexels.com, a free royalty-free stock photo website.
What adjustments does the speaker make to the background image to enhance the presentation?
-The speaker lowers the brightness to -25 and increases the contrast to +20 to make the background image pop and complement the text.
What font does the speaker use for the title slide and why?
-The speaker uses the font Poppins for the title slide because it is bold and makes the title stand out against the background.
How does the speaker enhance the title text to make it more prominent?
-The speaker enhances the title text by making it big, bold, and adding a drop shadow to make it pop against the background.
What is the speaker's strategy for presenting bullet points in a visually appealing way?
-The speaker's strategy is to use colored text, insert shapes behind the text, and highlight key points to make bullet points stand out.
Where does the speaker find icons to include in the presentation?
-The speaker finds icons at flaticon.com, which offers both free and paid licensing options.
How does the speaker ensure consistency in the presentation design?
-The speaker ensures consistency by copying and pasting formatting styles, such as fonts and lines, across different slides.
What is the speaker's final recommendation for making a presentation more engaging?
-The speaker recommends using vibrant colors, contrasting elements, and visually appealing designs to make the presentation engaging and easy to read.
Outlines
🎨 Enhancing Google Slides Presentation
The speaker begins by addressing the common issue of dull presentations using Google Slides and proposes a solution. They introduce themselves as a guide to help viewers improve the visual appeal of their slides, making them more professional. The tutorial focuses on creating a presentation about Indonesia, starting with a title slide. The speaker suggests using a full-screen image from Pexels, a free stock photo website, to enhance the background. They demonstrate how to adjust the image's brightness and contrast to make the title stand out. The title is then added using the Poppins font, with adjustments for size and boldness. A line is drawn beneath the title, and a drop shadow effect is applied for a modern look. The speaker's name is added in a smaller font below the title line, and the slide is compared to a basic template to show the improvement.
🌟 Creating a Vibrant and Engaging Slide
The speaker continues by discussing the second slide, which contains fun facts about Indonesia. They aim to make the text more engaging by using a transparent rectangle to overlay text for better readability. The contrast between the dark background and light text is emphasized. The speaker then copies the background image and style to the next slide, adjusting the text size and spacing to avoid a boring list. They introduce the concept of using shapes and icons to highlight key points, adding a paw print icon from flaticon.com to emphasize the fact about endangered animals. The speaker shows how to recolor the icon to match the presentation's color scheme, creating a cohesive and visually appealing slide.
🍽️ Showcasing Indonesian Cuisine
In the third paragraph, the speaker focuses on the final slide, which is about Indonesian favorite foods, particularly street vendors. They search for a street vendor image on Pexels and incorporate it into the slide, adjusting the brightness and contrast. The speaker then adds images of specific Indonesian dishes, such as Nasi Goreng, and uses boxes and lines to organize the content. They emphasize the importance of maintaining a balanced and visually appealing layout, ensuring that the presentation's design is consistent and engaging. The speaker concludes by comparing the old, boring slides with the new, vibrant ones, highlighting the transformation and improvement in the presentation's overall appearance.
📢 Wrapping Up the Presentation Tutorial
The speaker concludes the tutorial by summarizing the changes made to the presentation and emphasizing the visual improvements. They encourage students to apply these techniques for better presentation outcomes and invite viewers to watch a previous video on presentation advice for students. The speaker reminds viewers to like and subscribe for more content and teases the next video, leaving the audience with a positive impression of the enhanced presentation skills they can acquire.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Google Slides
💡Templates
💡Stock Photos
💡Brightness and Contrast
💡Cropping
💡Fonts
💡Drop Shadow
💡Bullet Points
💡Icons
💡Contrasting Colors
💡Visual Appeal
Highlights
Using Google Slides for presentations can be enhanced by customizing templates.
Slidesgo.com offers free Google Slides templates.
Creating presentations from scratch can lead to more personalized results.
Pexels.com is a resource for free, royalty-free stock photos and videos.
Full-screen images can make title slides bold and engaging.
Adjusting image brightness and contrast can enhance the background of slides.
Using large, bold fonts can make text stand out against dark backgrounds.
Adding a simple line or shape can give a modern look to slides.
Drop shadows can make text pop on slides.
Customizing the font and size can improve readability and aesthetics.
Using a brief synopsis can help set the context for the presentation.
Inserting a transparent box can improve text readability against complex backgrounds.
Highlighting key points in bullet points can draw attention to important information.
Using icons from flaticon.com can add visual interest to slides.
Recoloring icons can help them blend with the slide's color scheme.
Spacing and aligning elements evenly can create a balanced look.
Using street vendor images can add local flavor to food-related slides.
Cropping images to fit the slide layout can improve visual consistency.
Copying and pasting formatting can save time when creating multiple slides.
Comparing before and after slides can demonstrate the impact of customization.
For students seeking presentation advice, additional resources are available.
Encouraging viewers to like and subscribe for more content.
Transcripts
so you have a presentation coming up and
you're using Google slides and your
presentation looks really really boring
and by boring I mean it's literally
going to be the cookie cutter like
Google Slides really boring white and
black template right well look no
further because I'm here to help you
guys out on how to essentially make your
slides look better more professional and
just get a better impression from
everybody whether it's a college
presentation a work presentation now I'm
using Google slides in particular so not
to be mistaken with PowerPoint and
without further Ado let's just jump
right in so just a preview here this is
going to be my Google slides and I am
doing this presentation on my you know
home country Indonesia right I have
three slides so I have the title slide
and I'm gonna have fun facts about
Indonesia here so just four bullet
points very very easy and simple and I'm
gonna have uh Indonesian loved Foods
right so these are like foods that we
love I'm Indonesian and I love these
Foods myself so the first approach I
want to talk about is um this website
called slidesgo.com now slides go they
kind of give you like PowerPoint or
Google Slides templates but for me for
today I'm feeling a little challenged
kind of want to step away from templates
and kind of make everything from scratch
so here this photo here I grabbed it
from a website called pexels.com
pexels.com is essentially where I get
all my stock photos and videos If you
guys don't know yet um this is a free
royalty free
um stock photo website so I'm just gonna
I typed in Indonesia earlier but I'm
just gonna type it in again and
essentially this is the first one that I
grabbed um first photo here I just
thought it looks kind of cool what I
enjoy doing in terms of doing PowerPoint
presentations or you know Google Slides
presentations I like my title slide to
be bold like I like the image to be full
screen I don't know it's just me but I
really enjoy it if I do make this photo
full screen I know I could make this
into the background but I am just going
to essentially drag this photo here
um I can like this looks good and I
could definitely crop this photo as well
so I want to crop it so it it kind of
fits the uh
the boom there you go and I could always
like drag it up and down right in terms
of like how I want to slide this photo
so I could always change the format here
so I could always recolor this uh image
if I ever want to recolor it I just have
like brightness adjustments right so I
could literally lower down the
brightness and what I like to do is I
usually like to lower down the
brightness and kind of up the contrast a
little bit so it kind of pops and I'm
lowering down the brightness to you know
negative 25. I'm upping the contrast to
maybe about plus 20 and you can see
already that it's it's giving that like
pop color for this background right now
for this title I'm just going to get rid
of this
um and I am going to actually insert a
text box
and I'm going to make it the title which
is Indonesia right so whoops did not
mean to paste that okay so here is
Indonesia
I'm going to make this font to be big
big and bold right you can see now why I
darkened the you know the background
color or the background image because
when I turn this up you can see how it
looks very very vibrant and it looks it
just it just contrasts it's a nice
contrast between the dark and the and
the light color here so you get the
whole picture here of you know the
Indonesian you know the boat and the
nice background the sunset or Sunrise
whatever it is and you get this nice um
text of Indonesia right like it catches
the eye I chose this font it's called
Poppins uh it's you know right here
Poppins there's different you know types
there's extra bold bold um I'm just
gonna do
I'm actually gonna do both the Bold
looks the Bold looks nice and I'm just
gonna insert a line you know nothing
wrong with the line right like I'm just
going to draw a simple line like this
and I'm going to make it about four or
maybe three pixels uh three pixels uh
thick make it white again as you as you
see here and boom it already kind of has
a nice simple and modern uh look to it
right
um what I can do here as well is I can
also do a drop shadow which kind of
makes it pop even more so you can change
the transparency over here so going to
the left means more Shadow I'll just do
like a you know a nice uh nice 30 over
here
um distance I could make it a little bit
popping like five and a blur radius I
kind of want it to be like a soft ten so
that looks good that that to me looks
really good I could you know apply the
same thing here five ten and I believe
transparency was about like 20. I wanna
I wanna add like you know buy me right
obviously I made this presentation I'm
just gonna put my first name last
initial
drop the font all the way to probably
like 30 just right here fits perfectly
right under this line right here
boom right that works perfectly so I
could kind of scoot this line a little
bit up
over here move it like this
and then boom okay so it looks already
10 times better in my opinion than the
original
boom right this is like boring this is
black and white very very boxy you know
images just like randomly here slapped
on right this one is like wow you really
get a nice like vibrant picture too in
the back right what I probably want to
do is I'm going to add a little text box
and I just you know just just a brief
synopsis of my what my presentation is
about right I'm just gonna you know like
uh think of this from my head I'm just
gonna type in we will you know uncover
the beautiful islands and
um traditions of
my beloved country Indonesia but there
are many hidden gems and secrets located
within the heart of Indonesia boom so we
again put this here
I am going to stick with the same font
so I'm going to go with Poppins and then
I'm going to do a medium here so I I
could definitely put this like down here
you see how it's kind of like
I don't know kind of a little bit hard
to see I'm just gonna insert a you know
a shape here I'm going to insert a
rectangle and I'm going to make this
color
um black oops
did not want to do that let's go over
here and
add a custom color here you see so if I
had a custom color here I could change
the transparency I can make it a little
bit dark like kind of like this
right
um make it black cool so now we have
this transparent box here in the back
which perfectly fits if we actually move
this a little bit to the back send
backward boom so now we have this nice
box for the text that I just wrote and
it will literally just fit right in here
and if the color is ever too it's still
hard to read you could always change the
color here to uh make it more you know
more
opaque whoa so here you go so here's
what we have now
and here's what we have before same
photo same title same name but obviously
different
um
you know this is more vibrant I I really
like this one better than this one so
that's already how you make a nice title
slide in my opinion
so again uh I kind of like I like this
photo a lot so I'm gonna copy that I'm
going to bring it over here again I
grabbed that from pixels
um again if you you could grab your own
photo or
um go to Google images or whatever your
resource is again I like to make this
big
so again grabbing this grabbing the
style that I have here I'm gonna paste
it and do a fun facts about Indonesia so
I'm going to shrink this again shrink
string shrink
now here's what I like to do right like
fun facts about and Indonesia is like my
main subject here right so I don't know
like graphic designers love this a lot I
you know I do this a lot with my
thumbnails and everything I just like to
make this part like stand out a little
bit bigger so it's like this right
um in terms of line spacing I could
always like change it so if it seems
like it's too um
how do you say it's too like far apart
from each other because you see how
there's a lot of like a big gap here I
could even cut this right make another
and just paste it here or I guess copy
paste this right and then do Indonesia
here
and then I'm going to just make this
bigger like I did earlier
and now check this out I could drag this
up here and get rid of that Gap that I
have earlier so here you go now I have
four bullet points here and a general
rule for me for bull points is bullet
points or lists are they're pretty
boring right you kind of want to make it
like I don't know stand out I guess
so what I want to do here is essentially
I want to insert a little shape
like us like a rectangle right
boom like this and I'm gonna make it
like I I'm gonna try to make it equal
distance to each other so let's see up
there you go so what I like about Google
Slides like they kind of like make stuff
equidistant
and now I want to make them the dark
color that I did so now I have here I
have four boxes right oh this I just
realized this one has a really ugly
stroke I don't want that yeah there you
go so I I want to get rid of that line
two
uh in that case I'm Gonna Bump back the
transparency down a little bit just a
little bit like this okay
so again like I said bullet points
boring no no no no no I don't want no
bullet points there
um and what I'm gonna do instead is
actually
go take a look at these texts right I'm
going to insert the text box here so I'm
literally going to just essentially do
the same thing I've been doing again and
again and again
and I'm going to kind of Center it
because you know it's I don't want it to
be centered make the text color white oh
sorry that's not text color I don't know
what I'm doing text color white there
you go I like to highlight my key points
here so Indonesia is home to over a
hundred endangered animals right 100
endangered animals is probably what is
interesting to me so I'm going to change
this color to Yellow right just so it
kind of sticks out right
uh I could even bought this too like
this right so now I have Indonesia's
home to over 100 endangered animals now
what I really like to do is to add icons
I get my icons from flat icon.com
there's some free licensing paid
licensing uh I I just I go here for all
my accounts so I'm just gonna type an
animal right well it comes out as animal
well this paw print comes up right and
it seems to be pretty nice so I'm going
to copy this paw print here it's from
free pick this is a free for personal
commercial use with attribution
um you know if you're not going to
publicize this I mean you could you
could you could put attributions later
on in the very end of the slide right so
here I have this icon here
it's black
I'm going to do a recolor make it white
if you do a negative it kind of just
flips the uh black and white now you can
already see how this how I'm going to
lay this out right so I'm going to have
a box here icon here text here along
with the highlighted key point
okay so there you go I am going to
change this actually I could kind of
squeeze this out a little bit yeah there
you go okay
boom now you see how suddenly the
presentation looks a little bit more
less template and cookie Cuttery right
this looks good and I'm not using any
templates like I said I've just did this
from scratch you know that you see me
you know doing this and this from
scratch
this looks great I I believe like if you
come up to the stage and you present
like this this is like a clean and nice
modern presentation right it has
contrasting colors it has you know
things that pop off things that pop out
it's not hard to see it's not hard to
read
so let's move on to the third slide here
and then usually love Foods right you
kind of have to make a connection of
what is going on with your
um with your PowerPoint or with your
slides so Indonesian love Foods I
believe that the best foods in Indonesia
from personal experience is going to be
Street vendors right so I'm going to
type in street vendor
here
and boom you just have a street vendor
here I'm just going to copy this image
and I don't know no one's Really Gonna
know like the background and stuff right
like
I'm gonna paste in here copy it here
again do the same cropping trick I again
like I said I know you can uh definitely
for sure change the
what is it called you could change it so
it's the background I know I know don't
yell at me
I am just
here to do my stuff okay again turn
brightness down
um and
contrast up right and I want to grab
these photos so this is Nasi Goreng
which is the
loved beloved uh food item so I'm gonna
again grab the box I'm gonna Post in
here and this one I could kind of just
stretch it out like kind of like this
right and then the title for Nasi Goreng
I'm just going to steal my name here
again there's a lot of copy pasting but
you know that's what I like about it
because you could definitely
um you don't have to keep formatting
everything right so Nasi Goreng love
this put this here
and then I'm going to again I'm going to
steal this I want to actually steal this
line right here
steal this line move this back sorry for
moving you
steal this line here put this over here
underneath Nasi Goreng you can see
already where I'm gonna go with this
and then
and I am going to steal this and put
this over here
and I am going to title it Indonesian
loved Foods or I don't know Indonesian
favorite
Foods
okay boom there you go put this right
there there's nothing going I want to
make sure it's left aligned
okay perfect and now I can just again
like I said there's a lot of copy paste
but bear with me here we are going to
copy paste this and I am going to grab
this
over here and paste so Ctrl shift V it
keeps the formatting I should have done
that earlier I don't know why I didn't
but
boom there you go
looking nice looking great and the
second one I'm just going to slap this
right on right here but I don't like how
they're you know side you know top top
and bottom like this right
you can't change it up a little bit you
gotta like put it over here you know and
then I'm going to copy this paste it
here
I'm going to have this is a different
height which kind of bugs me but that's
okay we could we could deal with that
right or should we make it the same
height okay we'll make it the same
height because I'm you know I try to
make this look very very nice and
balanced and such okay I don't like how
it's getting stretched so
we're gonna go over here we're gonna
make it big here we're gonna crop this
to that size boom and then now we place
it here you see
so now this is back the same size
copy this and paste it
you're gonna drag it down over here
boom
I guess I'll do saute okay so there you
go I mean just have a look at this right
uh let me first change this
color because I wanted to pop again
okay so you can see here these are the
old Google Slides presentations right
you got you know the boring Indonesia
here boring fun facts
you know boring
you know Indonesian love Foods whatever
to the lo and behold the new one which
is again vibrant it pops contrasting
colors very easy to read
you know all this boxes with icons and
it's again very very visually appealing
right and again this is the Indonesian
favorite foods that I've you know put
together so again comparison
boom boom boom and comparison and
comparing it with boom boom boom I I
would best believe that the last three
slides are much much better and more
vibrant so with that being said I hope
you guys enjoyed this tutorial and the
outcome of the presentation slides if
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