Tutorial: Creating a Transparent Layer in Photoshop
A custom PowerPoint design template is essential for branding elearning or making it stand out from other training programs. Adding your organization’s logo and color scheme to the PowerPoint master slide or design template is a common technique to customize an elearning program.
Simply pasting your organization’s logo on the PowerPoint design template may create an awkward looking square that “sits on-top” of the slide. An alternative technique is to make the area around the logo transparent. In an easy to follow tutorial John Dillon shares with EPS411.com how to create a transparent image in Photoshop to use as part of a PowerPoint design template.
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About the Author: John Dillon has been a Paramedic for close to 3 decades, and has been an instructor for just as long. John currently works as a paramedic and educator for Woodbury Public Safety in Woodbury MN, and is the founder of C3 SoftWorks located in Minneapolis. John currently educates instructors on how to use game to teach core content in seminars and conferences around the country. John can be reached at johnd@c3softworks.com or www.c3softworks.com.
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Photoshop CS3 For Dummies (Book)
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Tags: design, John Dillion, Photoshop, PowerPoint
