Colors are very helpful in adding spice to a boring section of text. And it is because of this that people like to use color in all PowerPoint presentations!

Colors need not only be used in the animation of the PowerPoint presentation. It can also be used to highlight key phrases through which the audience’s attention is diverted to important concepts of the presentation. It also helps in the assimilation of information, and thus should not be overlooked when creating PowerPoint presentations!

However, when using colors, one has to careful about the color combination being used. Colors exhibit the different moods of the presenter; green is used to describe relaxing, red and yellow are urgent colors and are used for immediate action situations and blue seems to be sad or relaxing, depending on the circumstances. It is important to know how to use colors in presentations to get the best results from the presentations. The color wheel, or the chromatic wheel, is a useful tool used in graphic design while preparing preparing PowerPoint presentations. Here, the colors are aligned in a circle, depending on the order of visible colors in the electromagnetic spectrum, from red to blue. The primary colors, blue, red and yellow can be combined to give a large number of new colors that can look both well, and horrid together! The worst color combinations that could be made in a PowerPoint presentation is one where the two colors are placed in the same region, opposite to each other in the color wheel.

When making the PowerPoint presentation, it is better to avoid using color combinations of colors that are found on the opposite sides of the color wheel. For example, while red text on a green background is okay for Christmas, one should avoid this combination at all costs! Similarly, one should not make a PowerPoint presentation with a blue text on a yellow background. These colors seem to clash with each other and only hampers the effect of the combination. The color wheel also has to be considered when creating colorful PowerPoint presentations. It is the hue and saturation of colors that also determines the color choice in the PowerPoint presentation. Usually, dark text that is placed on a light background gives a more pronounced look, and it is also easier to read, than using light text on a dark background.

In PowerPoint presentations, to access the color palette or color scheme, one has to use the draw toolbar which defines the eight colors used for background, text and lines, titles, shadows and for filling the image. When beginning to design a presentation, it is vital to modify the first four colors in your color palette; i.e. background, shadows, title text and text and lines. In this way, you are sure that the chosen text color and background color are not the same. Remember, it is always better to use a dark background with light colored text, or vice versa. If you intend on using shadow effects on an object on the presentation, then select a color that is a shade darker than the background image because a lighter color does not look realistic as a shadow.

When using colors for your PowerPoint presentation, it is important to preview your PowerPoint presentation in the room scheduled for the speech . This is because, the quality of the image on the PowerPoint slide is affected by the amount of sunlight that is streaming into the room. The type of overhead lights used for your presentations also affects the quality of the image. Keeping all these points in mind when choosing the right colors for your color combination in the PowerPoint presentation is very important. Only then will one be able to create an effective PowerPoint presentation with the help of colors!