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Total Floral's original PowerPoint training presentation feature a flat white background, clipart illustrations, and excessive random animations.  The "Cycle of Freshness" was a linear top-down process-flow diagram accented with weak red lines yellow-to-red gradient font colors. Our makeover of the Total Floral presentation included creating a new template that featured an elegantly dimensional textured background from The Presenter's Toolkit, plus an left-sided arc of flowers (created in Photoshop and saved as a PNG file).  The "Cycle of Freshness" truly became a circular loop process-flow, by featuring each of the four steps set against a rounded-rectangle image, helping to communicate the message more memorably.

 

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Software giant Oracle's simplistic and amateurish look and feel of their "Service Continuum" process diagram detracted from the professionalism of the company's image.  The three grey "data bins" in 3D added no value and made it difficult to read the text. To more effectively explain Oracle's Service Continuum process, we worked to create a custom template in Photoshop using a data-themed concept of ones-and-zeroes for the background and bottom red banner.  The "data-bins" were converted to more simple gradient 30% gradient rectangles, and titled with red type.

 

 

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A speaker wanted to present this process flow on screen.  It's impossible to read!  Our solution:  Simply hand it out on paper.  Presenting such intricate details can overwhelm an audience and have a negative impact.

To help communicate this lengthy process flow, we converted it to a moving video.  We created the video in Adobe After Effects, rendering the 640 x 6000 graphic to move from top to bottom over 30 seconds.  The flowing video was then imported into PowerPoint!

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"The contrast between the old version and The Presentation Team's version is like night and day."

Keith A. Bostian, Ph.D