You do not have to pay a professional presentation designer to do basic chart make-overs. Here are the secrets:
- Take out ugly reflections, bevels, and huge shadows
- Center things properly
- Align and distribute any object on the slide
- Cut words on bullet points
- Group bullet point lists in sub categories
- Take out random colors and replace with those in the logo
- Remove Times Roman and Comic Sans and replace with Arial
- Take out italics and underline
- Round chart numbers and other financial information
- No ticks on chart axes
- Chart gap width to 50%
- Titles all in the same place, on 1 line (chop words if necessary)
- Replace fuzzy logos with hi-res ones
- Fix hanging bullet points (i.e., the next line starts under the bullet, rather than at the indent)
- Reset images to their original aspect ratio
After this, no need for a slide-make-over artist.