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The original title: "Why does your PPT look dirty?" "

I believe you have encountered the same problem when doing PPT. There is nothing wrong with the layout, but it looks very LOW, such as this:

There are not many elements, but the picture is dirty and not advanced at all.

On the contrary, the excellent works on the Internet, whether they are light colors:

It's still dark:

They all look very refreshing and high-end. What is the secret behind this?

Today, let's talk about the PPT color matching page that will get you out of the mess.

When it comes to color matching, it can be simply divided into 2 pieces, the background and the main body.

01. Background is a point that many people will ignore, but in fact, its significance is very important.

The same thing is not the same under different circumstances. Night-luminescent pearl, for example, is just an ordinary piece of jade during the day, but it exudes a unique charm at night.

The same is true of PPT, where the background greatly affects the presentation of the subject, such as the case at the beginning:

It is because the color distinction between the background and the main body is not big, paste together, it looks very dirty.

Try to pull the two colors apart and let the background fade, and the main body will stand out:

The picture is also more fresh and natural, and you can operate in reverse if you like dark ones:

Darken the background and light up the main body. This modification process, I did not even change the position and size of any element, this is the role of color.

By strengthening the contrast, pull apart the hierarchy:

This requires us to try not to use this kind of intermediate color, especially when it appears as a background.

For example, when making a tech style page, many people are used to making the background very bright:

Want to make the whole stand out, but this leads to not enough contrast between the main element and the background, so that the focus is submerged in the background.

In fact, you might as well be bold and make the background as bright as possible:

Theme elements can be better highlighted!

Another example is the table on this page:

It is also because the background uses an intermediate color, and the page looks dirty.

The solution is to let the background fade:

If you think the picture is a little empty, you can also add dark gradient blocks to decorate it:

As an additional note, when using gradients for beginners, try to use adjacent color gradients:

That is, the colors on the color ring with a distance of 60 degrees, because their hue is relatively close, the fusion will not appear abrupt. On the contrary, if the span is very large, it will look dirty if it is not handled properly!

02. In addition to the background, the color of the main elements also affects the texture of the picture!

For example, this one-page working PPT, a very classic monochrome color matching:

There is a contrast, but it gives people a sense of lifeless. How to make it cleaner?

In fact, you just need to reduce the proportion of gray in the picture and increase the color saturation, like this:

I changed the original gray gradient to white and increased the saturation of blue at the same time.

You may not quite understand the concept of saturation, but if we look at it separately, these are the two kinds of blue in the case just now:

Switch to HSL mode although the color system is the same, the saturation on the left is low, which is located below the color bar (see left). On the other hand, the color below is obviously gray, and the color near the bottom is almost heavy gray.

Therefore, the saturation value can be increased, and the position of the color is higher (as shown on the right), and the color is much cleaner. This process is to reduce the gray mixed in the color.

And then there's this pyramid structure:

The overall use of low saturation color, very stiff.

Increase the saturation of the color appropriately:

The picture is immediately clean!

Another typical application is this full-pattern page:

The current text overlaps with the photo. The general practice is to absorb the color of the sky of the picture and make a gradient mask to cover the bottom of the text:

At this time, the subject text is really clear. But as you can see, because the picture itself is dark, the mask is also very dark.

At this point, the saturation of the gradual blue can be increased by the saturation adjustment method:

The overall tone is much brighter. And this practice is modified on the basis of the original hue, the tone of the color is still blue, will not appear abrupt.

Let's take a full look at the front and back comparison:

Reviewing the whole process of manuscript revision, there is no change in any of the typesetting layout, just by modifying the color matching to make the picture much more advanced.

The key to this lies in two points:

1. Open the color contrast between the background and the main body 2. Reduce the proportion of gray in the color

This article comes from the official account of Wechat: Slidecent (ID:Slidecent), author: Lin Limeng

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