Presentation provides information to a wide range of people in various ways and methods. The purpose of each work is the transfer and assimilation of the information proposed in it. And for this today they use various methods: starting from a blackboard with chalk and ending with an expensive projector with a panel.
The presentation can be a set of pictures (photos) framed with explanatory text, built-in computer animation, audio and video files and other interactive elements.
On our website you will find huge amount presentations on any topic that interests you. If you have any difficulties, use the site search.
On the site you can download free presentations on astronomy, get to know the representatives of flora and fauna on our planet in presentations on biology and geography. During school lessons, children will be interested in learning about the history of their country through history presentations.
In music lessons, a teacher can use interactive presentations on music, in which you can hear the sounds of various musical instruments. You can also download presentations on MHC and presentations on social studies. Lovers of Russian literature are not deprived of attention either; I present to you my PowerPoint works on the Russian language.
There are special sections for techies: and presentations on mathematics. And athletes can get acquainted with presentations about sports. For those who like to create their own work, there is a section where anyone can download the basis for their practical work.
I'm sorry to disappoint you, but PowerPoint doesn't come with design templates. Often these templates are no longer in fashion and will immediately be perceived by your audience as a “low-quality product.”
I offer 2 solutions:
1. Don't use templates at all. Unify your slides with a single color scheme and make the format and position of headings the same on all slides except the first and last.
2.Create your own templates if you plan to use and edit this presentation in the future. To do this, we need to go to the View tab -> Slide Master. This is a secret room that not everyone knows about, as practice shows :) 
In this section we can create our own template!
I usually delete all the standard template slides in the left tab and create my own from scratch. All you need here is to add fillers and decorate them.
You now have your own template. Bonus: As a reward for reading this section, I want to give you my secret weapon for creating presentations - a free template of 800 animated slides with infographics, icons and maps, which really helps you get creative. Believe me, it's worth it :) (on our page you can subscribe and get 800 coveted templates)
2 Use 3-5 basic colors when creating presentations.
Please do not use more than 5 different colors when creating your presentation. Moreover, use only 3 base colors, since the other 2 are usually shades of the primary colors. How to choose color palette.
⁃ One of the three shades must be selected for the background. Decide right away - this will be a presentation with a light or dark background. If you're an advanced designer, you can try alternating, but I'm skipping those experiments in this article.
⁃ Next, choose a color for the text. It should be as contrasting as possible with the background color. The ideal and frequently encountered option: white background - black text. But this option is inferior in terms of creativity :) So let's look at a few examples. Maybe I can give you some ideas:Gray background, light blue body text and dark gray accent. White background, black text, blue accent. 3 Colors. Alternates with a dark background and white text. Dark background, white text, light green accent. Shades of light green are also used here and dark and light backgrounds alternate.
If you still couldn’t decide on a color palette or you don’t have a company/project brand book, then I suggest you the following resource color.adobe.com
Here you can select a color palette based on the image, and also in the “Explore” tab see the solutions of other users and even find out the number of views and likes :) 
3 Give up 3D icons from search engines - turn to linear and flat icons.
Unfortunately, I still often see slides that use large, low-quality icons. Now it's outdated topic and it looks very ugly. And some don’t use icons at all, which is also bad, because visualization is important in a presentation, and not just solid text. Purpose of icons: replace unnecessary text and speed up the memorability and digestibility of information. My advice to you: when creating a presentation, use icons from this resource - flaticon.com
Icons from flaticon will make your presentation more modern and concise.
There is a section " Packs"where you can find the icons uniform style on a specific topic from one designer. I advise you to select icons in a comprehensive manner so that they are all in the same style.
Subconsciously, we feel every detail in the presentation, right down to the thickness of the line of the icons, and if this thickness is different between icons, then the presentation immediately ceases to be in harmony, and subconsciously we no longer perceive it as high-quality.
Also, when working with icons, I would like to note this tendency among people: "blindness syndrome". This is when everything in a presentation is made large in size - “so that everyone can see.” If you make everything huge, it will significantly reduce the quality of your presentations, but icons only look good at small sizes. Let's look at an example:
4 Every slide is a picture and it needs a frame. Or is it not needed?
When creating a presentation, keep the frame from the edges of the slide. Moreover, large frames are in fashion now. Important: the distance from the borders to the content of the slide should be the same on all sides. Example:
What could happen? It may turn out that the content you planned to post will not fit on one slide, and that’s good! Don't try to cram everything onto one page. It is better to divide it into two slides with one title.
One slide - one message.
Why make everything big - the slide needs air.
5 Give up bad habits. Stick with serif fonts.
Unless you are an avid designer and experiment with fonts, I advise against using serif fonts.
I offer you the following list of fonts: System fonts:
Arial Black (headers only)
Calibri Third party fonts:
Bebas (headers only)
Gotham Pro How to combine fonts when creating a presentation?
If you have never touched upon the topic of combining fonts before, then I advise you to use only one group of fonts when creating a presentation and change only its type. For example, make the heading Arial Black, and for regular text Arial, or another option from third-party fonts - make the heading Raleway Bold, and the main text Raleway Regular.
If you still decide experiment, then you can try the following combinations:
Bebas Bold - header
Raleway Regular - regular text
To other combinations, I prefer to choose one font and change only its type. This is more correct.
Here's a couple links which I personally use to download fonts:
6 When creating a presentation, use only high-quality images.
This is generally a sore subject. Especially here in Russia. If anyone has read Artemy Lebedev’s book “Kovodstvo”, then he clearly notes how, due to the decline of design culture after the collapse of the USSR, our population’s taste for quality design was simultaneously distorted. Perhaps you are reading now and will never appreciate the works that I celebrate here. And this is not because you are a bad person, but because our environment did not allow you to develop good design taste.
I can only advise something that has worked great in our studio for several years and is valued internationally (tested on all continents of planet Earth):
⁃ Do not use images from search engines as background images unless necessary
⁃ Download images only from specialized sites where photographers publish their work
⁃ Use high resolution images as background - for me this is at least 1000 pixels in height and width
⁃ Don't use stock images with people's forced smiles and white backgrounds. It looks unnatural.
⁃ You can use the following resources as sources: flickr, unsplash, everypixel
7 Don't use outlines. Either thick or nothing.
Now let's go a little deeper into the design.
You may notice that when you draw a shape in PowerPoint, it may appear blue with a light blue outline. Important: remove these outlines immediately. They will only emphasize that you are not in the trend and did not want to worry about the design of the presentation.
This begs the question: are contours out of style altogether now?
Answer: no, they just mutated into large frames :). Here are some contours that can still be used now:
As for the rest - yes, contours have gone out of fashion like white wigs once did.
8 Don't use shadows. Either big and blurry, or none at all.
Shadows, of course, have not gone out of fashion, unlike contours. But they have turned into something exclusive and expensive. Like a Patek Philippe watch. You either buy an original or a Chinese counterfeit and everyone understands that it is a Chinese counterfeit.
The moral of the story is: if you can create trendy shadows, great! If not, please cancel them everywhere in the "tab" Format".
PowerPoint comes with shadows installed as standard (especially in earlier versions). And I can tell you for sure that such shadows need to be removed immediately from the template. Let's look at examples: Bad shadows from PowerPoint
Nice shadow from Dribbble
Nice shadow from PowerPoint I'm even attaching the settings for you., if you still want to use shadows. But use this power wisely ☝ and do not put such a shadow on all the figures in a row so that they do not fill the entire background. 
9 How to make tables and charts beautiful? Remove everything unnecessary.
Here the rules actually overlap, but I noticed that for some, when it comes to tables and diagrams, they seem to forget everything: the rules of colors, contours, shadows, frames, and the like.
However, I have already described all the errors to you. The only thing left to do is not to do them. :) Let's look at it in practice:
Here is the smoker's table:
What's the difference? One is heavy and bulky, the other is clean and concise. Please note:
⁃ There is free space between the cell border and the content.
⁃ Of course there are no contours
⁃ No extra shadows
⁃ Some fields are not filled in at all
10 The slide is your canvas. Be creative. Imagine that you have a brush in your hand.
If presentations were created in Paint, the slides would look much more creative. I say this because we often drive ourselves into the template framework of PowerPoint, although we can also create unique works of art there. Let's look at examples of slides created in PowerPoint:
I wish you to create only high-quality presentations for your projects!
If you are about to give a presentation, it is important to quickly find a suitable design. This is often not easy to do.
You want your slide layout to emphasize the structure of your content, your presentation elements to engage your audience, and your design to be consistent with your branding and look modern. Where can you find PowerPoint templates that meet all these requirements?
Resources for finding patterns
Find hundreds of creative, high-quality presentation templates on Envato Elements. Subscribe to the service and download as many designs as you want. You can search for a suitable template using tags and keywords. There is also sorting by newness and popularity.
25+ Best PowerPoint Templates
To save your time, below we will provide examples of templates with the most memorable and creative designs. The first two files are available by subscription, the rest can be purchased separately.
1. Aura
This trendy PowerPoint template will captivate your audience with its elegant design. It offers many charts to choose from and full HD quality.
2. Golazo
Golazo is a unique PowerPoint template with a minimalist style. It perfectly combines simplicity and elegance, and also has all the popular professional features: animation, infographics, slide customization.
3. Verzus
In this set you will find more than 200 creative slides made in a minimalist design. There are dynamic images with text, infographics, tables, graphics, etc. The template looks attractive and is very easy to work with.
4.
This template features a modern design with transparent overlays and color effects. It has everything you need to create an impressive presentation.
5. Eureka
The Eureka template has a modern, minimalistic design that seamlessly combines the most fashionable elements. Map layouts are also available here, mobile devices and many other useful features.
6.Startup X
This amazing set features tons of creative slides and hundreds of design options. It is ideal for designing a business idea.
7. Mark 03
Dynamic shapes, colorful elements and modern design are the main advantages of this template. The set includes over 400 unique slides, including tables, graphs, infographics and images.
8.Prism
Creating a stunning PowerPoint presentation is much easier if you use a stylish template. In Prism you will find hundreds of unique slide designs with professional elements: vector icons, infographics and device layouts. Start preparing your presentation with this template and you're guaranteed success.
9. Unicorn
This template is perfect for presenting your innovative idea. It is modern and creative. Ideal for startups.
10. Fox
Fox is a modern PPT template in a minimalist style with creative elements. The set includes more than 400 slides, a huge number of icons, infographics, animations and many others useful elements. Setting up a presentation is very easy, and the results will pleasantly surprise you.
11.Moon
This modern template has many features like creative shapes, transparency effect and graphics that add elegance to the minimalist slide design. And the infographics and interesting layouts make Moon a great base for creating a professional presentation.
12. Best Business
With this template you can prepare a truly memorable presentation. The set includes more than 300 slides that meet all the requirements of modern business.
13. Pitch
14. Kaspian
This PPT template features a modern, minimalistic design with dynamic shapes and stylish elements. It is ideal for the design of your idea.
15.Material
Over 200 slides in material design with a huge selection of styles will allow you to create a memorable presentation for modern business, software, online service or innovative idea.
16.MNML
This template features a cool design and a unique, minimalist aesthetic. With over 150 slides, you can quickly create a professional presentation for any purpose.
17.Modern
If you want a simple PowerPoint template, choose Modern. It looks amazing and is suitable for any project.
18. Balance
Looking for a theme with a catchy, minimalist design? Pay attention to Balance. This template perfectly combines photos, text, shapes, as well as infographics and icons. An excellent option for a professional presentation.
19. I Soft
In this set you will find a variety of colorful slides with full-screen photos, creative graphics, illustrations, professional infographics and impressive animations.
20. Socran
A stylish, minimalist template with over 100 unique slides, designed to captivate your audience.
21. Vidova
The Vidova template will help you visualize even the most daring idea. It's perfect for storytelling. The set includes modern elements, from dramatic layouts for images to simple but effective text delivery.
22. Liberty
Liberty features energetic designs and creative layouts with stunning elements like graphics, icons, and infographics. At the same time, you can completely customize the presentation for yourself, using your own information and photos.
23. Miza
This template combines minimalistic design and unusual elements. Here you will find a collection of diagrams, cool slides with text and visual information, infographics, tables and many icons.
24. Transparency
Over 350 unique slides and a transparent effect make this template a great choice for business presentations. The set includes a huge selection of tables, icons, graphs, and layouts.
Choose a template that not only appeals to you visually, but also fits with your branding and positioning. Customize it to suit your specific needs and the result is a high-quality, professional and stylish presentation that will stand out and captivate your audience.
I'm sorry to disappoint you, but PowerPoint doesn't come with design templates. Often these templates are no longer in fashion and will immediately be perceived by your audience as a “low-quality product.”
I offer 2 solutions:
1. Don't use templates at all. Unify your slides with a single color scheme and make the format and position of headings the same on all slides except the first and last.
2.Create your own templates if you plan to use and edit this presentation in the future. To do this, we need to go to the View tab -> Slide Master. This is a secret room that not everyone knows about, as practice shows :)
In this section we can create our own template!
I usually delete all the standard template slides in the left tab and create my own from scratch. All you need here is to add fillers and decorate them.
You now have your own template. Bonus: As a reward for reading this section, I want to give you my secret weapon for creating presentations - a free template of 800 animated slides with infographics, icons and maps, which really helps you get creative. Believe me, it's worth it :) (on our page you can subscribe and get 800 coveted templates)
2 Use 3-5 basic colors when creating presentations.
Please do not use more than 5 different colors when creating your presentation. Moreover, use only 3 base colors, since the other 2 are usually shades of the primary colors. How to choose a color palette.
⁃ One of the three shades must be selected for the background. Decide right away - this will be a presentation with a light or dark background. If you're an advanced designer, you can try alternating, but I'm skipping those experiments in this article.
⁃ Next, choose a color for the text. It should be as contrasting as possible with the background color. The ideal and frequently encountered option: white background - black text. But this option is inferior in terms of creativity :) So let's look at a few examples. Maybe I can give you some ideas:Gray background, light blue body text and dark gray accent. White background, black text, blue accent. 3 Colors. Alternates with a dark background and white text. Dark background, white text, light green accent. Shades of light green are also used here and dark and light backgrounds alternate.
If you still couldn’t decide on a color palette or you don’t have a company/project brand book, then I suggest you the following resource color.adobe.com
Here you can select a color palette based on the image, and also in the “Explore” tab see the solutions of other users and even find out the number of views and likes :)
3 Give up 3D icons from search engines - turn to linear and flat icons.
Unfortunately, I still often see slides that use large, low-quality icons. Now this is an outdated theme and looks very ugly. And some don’t use icons at all, which is also bad, because visualization is important in a presentation, and not just solid text. Purpose of icons: replace unnecessary text and speed up the memorability and digestibility of information. My advice to you: when creating a presentation, use icons from this resource - flaticon.com
Icons from flaticon will make your presentation more modern and concise.
There is a section " Packs", where you can find icons of a single style on a specific topic from one designer. I advise you to comprehensively select icons in this way so that they are all in the same style.
Subconsciously, we feel every detail in the presentation, right down to the thickness of the line of the icons, and if this thickness is different between icons, then the presentation immediately ceases to be in harmony, and subconsciously we no longer perceive it as high-quality.
Also, when working with icons, I would like to note this tendency among people: "blindness syndrome". This is when everything in a presentation is made large in size - “so that everyone can see.” If you make everything huge, it will significantly reduce the quality of your presentations, but icons only look good at small sizes. Let's look at an example:
4 Every slide is a picture and it needs a frame. Or is it not needed?
When creating a presentation, keep the frame from the edges of the slide. Moreover, large frames are in fashion now. Important: the distance from the borders to the content of the slide should be the same on all sides. Example:What could happen? It may turn out that the content you planned to post will not fit on one slide, and that’s good! Don't try to cram everything onto one page. It is better to divide it into two slides with one title.
One slide - one message.
Why make everything big - the slide needs air.
5 Give up bad habits. Stick with serif fonts.
Unless you are an avid designer and experiment with fonts, I advise against using serif fonts.
I offer you the following list of fonts: System fonts:
Arial Black (headers only)
Calibri Third party fonts:
Bebas (headers only)
Gotham Pro How to combine fonts when creating a presentation?
If you have never touched upon the topic of combining fonts before, then I advise you to use only one group of fonts when creating a presentation and change only its type. For example, make the heading Arial Black, and for regular text Arial, or another option from third-party fonts - make the heading Raleway Bold, and the main text Raleway Regular.
If you still decide experiment, then you can try the following combinations:
Bebas Bold - header
Raleway Regular - regular text
To other combinations, I prefer to choose one font and change only its type. This is more correct.
Here's a couple links which I personally use to download fonts:
6 When creating a presentation, use only high-quality images.
This is generally a sore subject. Especially here in Russia. If anyone has read Artemy Lebedev’s book “Kovodstvo”, then he clearly notes how, due to the decline of design culture after the collapse of the USSR, our population’s taste for quality design was simultaneously distorted. Perhaps you are reading now and will never appreciate the works that I celebrate here. And this is not because you are a bad person, but because our environment did not allow you to develop good design taste.
I can only advise something that has worked great in our studio for several years and is valued internationally (tested on all continents of planet Earth):
⁃ Do not use images from search engines as background images unless necessary
⁃ Download images only from specialized sites where photographers publish their work
⁃ Use high resolution images as background - for me this is at least 1000 pixels in height and width
⁃ Don't use stock images with people's forced smiles and white backgrounds. It looks unnatural.
⁃ You can use the following resources as sources: flickr, unsplash, everypixel
7 Don't use outlines. Either thick or nothing.
Now let's go a little deeper into the design.
You may notice that when you draw a shape in PowerPoint, it may appear blue with a light blue outline. Important: remove these outlines immediately. They will only emphasize that you are not in the trend and did not want to worry about the design of the presentation.
This begs the question: are contours out of style altogether now?
Answer: no, they just mutated into large frames :). Here are some contours that can still be used now:
As for the rest - yes, contours have gone out of fashion like white wigs once did.
8 Don't use shadows. Either big and blurry, or none at all.
Shadows, of course, have not gone out of fashion, unlike contours. But they have turned into something exclusive and expensive. Like a Patek Philippe watch. You either buy an original or a Chinese counterfeit and everyone understands that it is a Chinese counterfeit.
The moral of the story is: if you can create trendy shadows, great! If not, please cancel them everywhere in the "tab" Format".
PowerPoint comes with shadows installed as standard (especially in earlier versions). And I can tell you for sure that such shadows need to be removed immediately from the template. Let's look at examples: Bad shadows from PowerPoint
Nice shadow from DribbbleNice shadow from PowerPoint I'm even attaching the settings for you., if you still want to use shadows. But use this power wisely ☝ and do not put such a shadow on all the figures in a row so that they do not fill the entire background.
9 How to make tables and charts beautiful? Remove everything unnecessary.
Here the rules actually overlap, but I noticed that for some, when it comes to tables and diagrams, they seem to forget everything: the rules of colors, contours, shadows, frames, and the like.
However, I have already described all the errors to you. The only thing left to do is not to do them. :) Let's look at it in practice:
Here is the smoker's table:
What's the difference? One is heavy and bulky, the other is clean and concise. Please note:
⁃ There is free space between the cell border and the content.
⁃ Of course there are no contours
⁃ No extra shadows
⁃ Some fields are not filled in at all
10 The slide is your canvas. Be creative. Imagine that you have a brush in your hand.
If presentations were created in Paint, the slides would look much more creative. I say this because we often drive ourselves into the template framework of PowerPoint, although we can also create unique works of art there. Let's look at examples of slides created in PowerPoint:I wish you to create only high-quality presentations for your projects!
A selection of presentations for every taste and for different purposes. The number of slides in the template is 20+. Available in .pptx and Google Slides formats. Use it!
25 slides
Fully editable template: easily change colors, fonts, images, and 80+ cool icons to match any color accent!
25 slides
25 slides
Bright slides with watercolor texture will not leave anyone indifferent! Suitable for creative performances and presentations in the field of art.
25 slides
A bright template for presentations with small headings. The colors of the elements can be changed - you will make a presentation in corporate style or in your favorite shades.
25 slides
Strict style for project presentation, research, financial reports and anything where there are a lot of tables. The templates are spacious!
25 slides
A template that will help you turn your presentation into a coherent story and support it with beautiful pictures.
28 slides
Spacious template! Charts, graphs, tables - everything fits.
24 slides
Minimalistic design for those who like to keep things short and to the point. It will help to place accents and draw the attention of listeners to the main thing.
25 slides
Beautiful slides with dynamic geometric shapes. Plenty of space for text and large elements, just don't overdo it.
25 slides
A stylish gradient and a dialog frame are a cool combination! Write the main idea in the box, and free space You can place text, a photo or a small sign.
25 slides
A good choice for creating business and corporate presentations. If you are worried about bright orange, you can change it, for example, to blue :)
25 slides
A template that changes to suit your needs. To change the design, just change the background image to match the theme of the speech and hop! – you have a custom design with cool elements.
25 slides
25 slides
A creative and lively template is suitable for presentations where it is important to place accents and use a minimum of text.
25 slides
25 slides
The bright combination of black and yellow will not leave anyone indifferent! Suitable for both large texts and small accents. You can insert photos and graphics.
17 slides
Talk and show is a template for a great pitch. Minimum text, large fonts and objects. It will help you focus on the main thing and prevent you from going overboard with the text.
25 slides
Another minimalist presentation with beautiful icons to get the point across.
25 slides
Bright and positive. It will not be suitable for a quarterly financial report, but there are free slides in which you can talk about the benefits of the product/project and place a couple of tables or graphs.
25 slides
A capacious template in which you can place everything you want - from large graphs to beautiful photographs. The colors can also be customized to suit your taste.
25 slides
The simple design and customizable color of the template will allow you to adapt the presentation to your company’s brand. The large selection of icons and beautiful diagrams are impressive.
25 slides
The headings are boldly highlighted – it looks cool! The layout changes from background photos, so the design is in your hands. More, of course, for creative ideas.
25 slides
A simple template for lovers of minimalism. The red frame will highlight the main thing. Suitable for presenting a project, when it is important to talk about the idea, and visualization fades into the background - pictures have no place here.
