PowerPoint with Rounded Corners

Yet another PowerPoint fashion trend! Presentations with rounded corners have been all the rage in design for the past few years. We're seeing rounded corners everywhere.

You can create this effect in PowerPoint by inserting a small gif with transparent rounded corners over each slide of your PowerPoint presentation... and make adjustments as necessary.

Or you can create pictures with rounded corners from within PowerPoint itself.

Here's how to do it in 4 easy steps:

1. Draw a rounded rectangle using "AutoShapes" in the "Draw" Toolbar.
2. Select your shape, then choose "Fill Color" and "Fill Effects".
3. Click on the "Picture" tab, and select a picture from your hard drive.
4. Click on "Insert", then "OK".

You can add images and text on top of this image...or add a drop shadow...or adjust the images transparency...or any number of other effects. And of course, you don't have to be trendy and use the rounded corner effect only -- you can use the same technique with any Autoshape or hand-drawn shape you wish.

But why do we love rounded shapes so much? Maybe it's because we don't like to hurt ourselves on sharp edges! Blogger Rich Ziade speculates on this growing trend and shows examples... ¶ 4/19/2006 03:39:00 PM