Creating a presentation from scratch? Nothing could be simpler.

Starting a presentation from scratch, with only a vague idea and unclear notions of how it should look? Today, it’s not difficult. You just need to resort to the help of specialized online services, and a high-quality presentation can be created in just a few mouse clicks.

You can start, for example, with the Canva platform. This online service was specifically designed for quick and efficient creation of presentations, graphics, and other visual materials. One of its main advantages is an extensive and constantly growing library of templates, images, and other graphic elements that can be used to personalize your presentations (of various orientations). You can also add graphs, diagrams, videos, etc. Interestingly, Canva allows you to create interactive elements, such as polls, quizzes, which can be useful for increasing audience engagement.

The Canva service offers a huge library of ready-made templates for creating presentations and a host of additional graphic elements.

Perhaps ready-made templates are not enough for you and you would like to use different types of materials? In this case, the online service SlideDog can help. It allows you to create presentations by combining diverse media files – PowerPoint slides (and other similar tools, for example, Prezi), pdf documents, videos, web pages. You can also add 3D objects, animation, audio content, etc. to the presentation. 

SlideDog allows you to combine various media files within one presentation – PowerPoint slides, pdf documents, graphics, videos, etc.

If you are a devoted fan of Apple solutions, then obviously you should take advantage of Apple Keynote – a program for creating presentations, which is part of the paid package of Apple iWork office applications. Keynote offers a wide range of functions and tools that can be used to create presentations of any complexity, style, and direction – from educational tasks to business reports. There are also many templates, graphic and interactive elements, advanced design tools, etc. Moreover, the program is fully integrated into the Apple ecosystem. The only relative disadvantage is that Keynote is only available for Mac and iOS devices.

Apple Keynote – for fans of the Apple ecosystem

Perhaps, for greater clarity and attractiveness, you want to supplement your presentation with interesting animation? In this case, Animaker can help. This online application has a simple interface, understandable even to a non-specialist, and offers a wide range of functions and capabilities, including 2D animation, creating gif videos, typography, etc. The application also includes a library of ready-made graphics, which allows you to quickly create animated videos, including Full HD resolution. In addition to this, Animaker offers text-to-speech conversion functions, voiceover, adding background music, and sound effects. There is both a free version of the service, with limited capabilities, and a fully functional paid version.

Animaker will help create an engaging video for your presentation, even if you have never done anything like this before.

Can’t find a suitable template for your presentation or can’t create a video that fully meets your ideas? No problem! You can seek help from professionals available on the online platform Design Pickle. Freelance designers from around the world offer their services here, who can help create a truly unique presentation and other graphic materials (infographics, illustrations, videos). To start working, you can use both your own materials and the resources of the extensive Design Pickle library. However, here, as in any business requiring direct communication with people, a detailed description of the task is required, and the more accurately it is composed, the more the result obtained will meet your expectations. Also, note that this service is paid.

Design Pickle provides access to the help of professional designers from around the world.

When the presentation is ready, the next question arises – how to deliver it to your target audience quickly and most effectively. There is an exact answer to this question – Pitch Avatar. Here, in just a few clicks, you can upload a presentation, generate a text description for each slide, voice it, create an AI avatar who will read the presentation to clients instead of you. Then you create a link, send it to potential clients, and increase the efficiency of your work, thanks to the capabilities of the latest digital technologies.

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