Speaker 1: So you have a presentation coming up and you're using Google Slides and your presentation looks really really boring and my boring I mean, it's literally gonna 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 gonna 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 Indonesian loved foods, right? So these are like foods that we love and I'm Indonesian and I love these foods myself So the first approach I want to talk about is this website called slides go calm now slides go They kind of give you like PowerPoint or Google Slides templates But for me for today, I'm feeling a little challenge kind of want to step away from templates and kind of make everything 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. This is a free royalty-free 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 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 can make this into a background, but I am just going to essentially Drag this photo here. 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 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 can always change the format here so I could always recolor this Image if I ever want to recolor it or 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 and 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 gonna get rid of this and I am going to actually insert a text box and I'm gonna 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 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 look 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 Text of Indonesia, right like it catches the eye. I chose this font. It's called Poppins. It's you know right here Poppins there's different, you know types. There's extra bold bold I'm trying to do I'm trying to 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 gonna draw a simple line like this and I'm going to make it about four or maybe three pixels three pixels thick make it white again as you as you see here and Boom, it already kind of has a nice Simple and modern look to it, right? What I could do here as well is I could also do a drop shadow which kind of makes it pop even more So you could change the transparency over here so going to the left means more shadow I'll just do like a you know, nice a nice 30% over here Distance I could make it a little bit popping like five and the blur radius I kind of want it to be like a soft 10. 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 want to I want to 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 And then boom, okay, so It looks already ten 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 is slapped on right? This one is like wow, you really get a nice like vibrant Picture or two in the back, right? What I probably want to do is I'm gonna add a little text box and I just you know, just a just a brief synopsis of my what my presentation is about, right? I'm just gonna you know, like Think of this from my head. I'm just gonna type in we will you know, uncover the beautiful islands and traditions of my beloved country Indonesia, but there are many hidden gems and secrets located within the heart of Indonesia. Oh, so we again put this here. I Am going to stick with the same font So I'm gonna 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 gonna ensure to insert a rectangle and I'm gonna make this color black oops Did not want to do that. Let's go over here and Add a custom color here you see So if I add a custom color here, I could change the transparency I can make it a little bit dark like kind of like this right 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 was 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 Make it more, you know more Opaque. Well, so here we go. So here's what we have now and Here's what we have before same photo same title same name, but obviously different 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, I kind of like I like this photo a lot. So I'm gonna copy that I'm gonna bring it over here again. I grabbed that from pixels again, if you could grab your own photo or 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 shrink shrink Now here's what I like to do right like fun facts about and Indonesia's 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? In terms of line spacing I could always like change it. So if it seems like it's too 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 bullet 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 a like a rectangle, right? Boom like this and I'm gonna make it like I'm gonna try to make it equidistant to each other So, let's see, yeah, 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 want to get rid of that line, too 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, I don't want no bullet points there 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 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? A hundred 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? I can even bold this to like this, right? So now I have Indonesia's home to over a hundred endangered animals now What I really like to do is to add icons. I get my icons from flat icon comm There's some free licensing paid licensing. I just I go here for all my con. 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 You know if you're not gonna 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 a white if you do a negative it kind of just flips the black and white Now you can already see how this how I'm going to lay this out, right? So I'm gonna 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 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 cutter II, 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 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 in the ninja love foods, right? you kind of have to make a connection of what is going on with your With your PowerPoint or with your slides. So Indonesian love foods. I Believe that the best foods in Indonesia from personal experience. It's gonna be street vendors, right? So I'm gonna type in street vendor here and Boom, they you just have a street vendor here. I'm just gonna 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 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 and Contrast up right and I want to grab these photos. So this is nasi goreng, which is the Loved beloved 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 gonna 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 You don't have to keep formatting everything right? So nasi goreng. Love this, but this here And then I'm going to again I'm gonna steal this I want to actually steal this line right here You 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'm going to title it Indonesian loved foods or I don't know Indonesian favorite foods Okay, boom, there you go put this right there this nasi goreng I want to make sure it's left aligned Okay, perfect and now I could just grab 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 get 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 gonna 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 gotta change it up a little bit you gotta like put 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 It's okay. We could we could deal with that right or do 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 paste it. You're gonna drag it down over here Boom I Guess I'll do satay. Okay. So there you go. I mean just have a look at this, right? 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 it together. So again comparison boom, boom boom 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 you are a student and you're actually looking for presentation advice Then feel free to click this video right here that I've made before on Presentation advice tips hacks to get you a good grade if you enjoyed the video Don't forget to hit the like and hit the subscribe button down below and I will see you guys all in the next video