What is a presentation template and where to download high-quality layouts

It's time to start developing your product presentation! And we need to start in such a way that as a result we get a complete, meaningful, well-structured, and most importantly, selling presentation.

When you plan your presentation, you should first consider its topic and purpose. Based on the main tasks, you need to choose a suitable design template. And here several questions arise at once:

Create a presentation template from scratch yourself?

Find a ready-made solution on the Internet?

Or maybe ask professionals for help?

What should I do? In this article we will look at all the possible options! Let's go!

• Visual design (background, color scheme)
• Font types and sizes (for both headings and body text)
• Design of graphic elements (diagrams, tables, graphs)
• Object placement parameters (sizes of frames, indents, headers and footers and their placement on the slide)

All this is offered in the form of ready-made samples that you just need to fill in with the information you need. 

One of the most important tasks in creating a presentation template is to cover all the possible elements that can be used in the presentation so that the information presented is stylish, effective and achieves the goal.

Thus, the template itself is a presentation, lacking only specific content.

Accordingly, this stage creates the basis for all work, and must be approached consciously.

Now let's figure out who, how and with what capabilities can cope with this matter.

Why do you need a presentation template? 

A presentation template is a very useful auxiliary tool when creating a presentation. 

When you often make presentations, you simply need certain blanks of structural elements and logical sequences at hand, so as not to assemble everything anew every time.

The template will be very useful for those who are not good at developing presentation designs. After all, even a beginner can use a ready-made template developed by a professional and create a beautiful project. 

When you have a high-quality presentation template in front of you, all that remains is to fill it with your data. After that, you can go win the hearts of future customers!

The template is also needed by corporate clients who make a lot of presentations. Employees will not draw them anyhow, but will follow clear instructions. Then all materials will look neat and identical. 

A presentation template will help employees follow the company's corporate style when designing slides. 

What programs work with presentation templates?

You can use different software when working with presentation templates. First of all, the choice depends on the level of design skills. 

No special design skills 

If you are not a professional designer and do not create graphic content every day, but decide to create a beautiful presentation based on a ready-made template, then for the first time it is better to do this in standard programs. 

The most common is, of course, PowerPoint

Like other editors installed on your computer by default, Powerpoint (or KeyNote on MacOS) has a fairly simple and intuitive interface. After spending some time, you can figure it out even at random.

PowerPoint lets you edit an existing presentation template or create a new template in your own style

The only catch is that, as a standard program, it contains a limited set of functions. Unfortunately, not all of your fresh and innovative ideas can be implemented within the capabilities of PowerPoint.

It is also worth considering that Power Point is not intended for creating layouts for professional printing, does not have prepress functions and significantly reduces the quality of raster graphics (photos).

Therefore, if you are planning to print your presentation in a printing house, you should take a closer look at the Adobe package. We'll talk about this in the next section.

Average to above average design skills

In terms of the breadth of possibilities for implementing projects and creating unique presentation templates, a suitable option would be to use programs from the Adobe package: Photoshop or Illustrator.

When it comes to such programs, an association immediately arises that only designers, technically savvy people work in them. There is nothing to argue with, this is true. 

Of course, it is quite possible to master the basic principles of use, but it is much more difficult to become a pro. Therefore, these editors, as a rule, employ experienced specialists who are professionally involved in creating graphic design. Accordingly, the presentation template will be developed taking into account even the most daring ideas.

How to Use a Presentation Template in PowerPoint

You already know that a template is not just the color scheme of a presentation, but also the prepared styles of its main elements. How to add a presentation template to Powerpoint?

To start working with the selected template, you first need to load it into the program, and then fill it with content. 

If you need a presentation template one-time, then you can simply open the existing file with it, do all the necessary work and save the project. 

If you intend to periodically apply the same template to different presentations, then for further work it is better to integrate it into the program itself.

How to insert a template into a powerpoint presentation?

You can, of course, copy the file from time to time, clean up the information in it and fill it with new information, but somehow it’s not comme il faut.

In general, here's a quick guide to adding a template (for more modern versions of PowerPoint):

1. You can choose presentation templates that the program itself offers. With this solution, you need to follow the following path: in the “File” tab, go to the “Create” item, select a template from the “Recommended” (“Office”) section and start working.
2. In the same paragraph there is a “Customizable” section. In order for your template taken from outside to be displayed there, it must be stored in a specific folder: C:\Users\ system account name\Documents\Office custom templates\
3. To display the theme of a third-party template in the “Design” tab, you need to drop the file into the folder: C:\Users\system account name\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates\Document Themes

Next, you work with a ready-made template in which fonts and all graphic structural elements are installed. They are already presented on the slide in the form of samples; you just need to replace the information in them with your own.

You can also adjust templates in ready-made presentations for further use or even create them from scratch. And these processes are not difficult to master, but a separate step-by-step analysis is required.

Working with a presentation template in Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator

Some aspects of working with a presentation template in PowerPoint require study and instructions, let alone in the Adobe environment.

These programs are a platform for the work of professional designers. Their interface contains a considerable number of tools. 

With the help of these tools and various functions and settings, an almost endless field opens up for the implementation of ideas and the creation of special projects. 

If you figure it all out on your own, it can take a lot of time! 

However, the templates in these programs will be much higher quality, more interesting and better than those created in MS PowerPoint. 

Instead of a thousand words, look at the creation process:

Where can I find ready-made presentation templates?

It is quite possible that there will be a ready-made template for the presentation. Where can I get one?

Several options can also be proposed to resolve this issue.

Free presentation templates

There is nothing to hide here; you can find free templates on the Internet. Just Google and you will see more than one link to collections by category, where you can easily download a presentation template for free.

But let's weigh the pros and cons of this approach:

Pros:

✅ Ready-made presentation template at no cost.

Cons:

❌ Several hundred thousand more presentations may have such a template.

❌ The design of the template leaves much to be desired.

Even if a more or less suitable presentation template is found, you will still need to do, so to speak, secondary repairs.

To achieve a unique design, you will have to modify the template: change the basic design, color combination, insert logos and other distinctive elements of your company or product. In general, you still can’t get away with it just like that.

Paid presentation templates 

Things are a little different with paid ready-made presentation templates. In this case, you need to visit specialized sites that sell these same templates and other graphic materials.

If you want to give it a try, here are a few options to make your search easier:

1. Creative Market
2. Shutterstock
3. Depositphotos
4. TemplateMonster

And what we get:

Pros:

✅ Templates at low cost

✅ Cool modern design

Cons:

❌ Many companies use these platforms - the templates are also not unique.

Someone will say that all their graphics can be found on the Internet and presentation templates of any kind can be downloaded for free. These people may be right, but only partly. On some sites you can download templates for paid platforms, but in almost one hundred percent of cases they will be “decorated” with a watermark or contain malicious code, in other words, a virus. 

Is it necessary to take such a risk, saving $5-10, when you can get a licensed presentation template and start creating the content? 

And you also need to stand out from others! Let's talk about this further.

Order a presentation template from the design studio

To create a great presentation template, the best solution is to contact a graphic design studio. Professional specialists will develop an individual project of any complexity, taking into account all your preferences, ideas and fantasies.

Why should you order a presentation template from a graphic design studio?

✅ 100% unique template with cool design.

✅ Individual approach to work.

✅ Using a professional template, your presentation will have a WOW effect, you will definitely be remembered by potential clients.

❌ Such templates are more expensive than previous versions.

But believe me, it's worth it! Only in this situation will you achieve a unique result and receive a high-quality template with detailed elaboration of all elements.

As we draw to a close, let us briefly share one incident from our experience:

The customer "Ires Group" came to us. The situation was this: he already had a purchased template, and our specialists only had to finish it. During the work, it turned out that almost all the elements and wishes of the customer did not fit the template. The project had to be redone. 

As a result, he chose the layout that we made, and, after some time, he ordered a second one based on our template.

Here's the result: watch

Summary

A good template will help you develop a beautiful presentation without special designer skills, save a lot of time on development, and bring several corporate presentations to a single style at once.

When creating a presentation, it will be much easier to distribute the necessary information across the slides if you have a well-developed template that contains examples of all the necessary structural elements.

It is possible to find and download presentation templates for free on the Internet, but you will pay the price with the cliché of the proposed options and the lack of original design.

You can also go through specialized sites, which are marketplaces for similar products: logos, pictures, templates - all types of graphics. You will leave this market with certain costs, but with a higher quality and trendy design. Also, don’t forget that the platforms are available to everyone, and many other companies use them too.

And finally, you can do the right thing - contact a professional graphic design studio and order a presentation template. The company’s specialists will listen to all your requirements and wishes and offer individual project development. 

You will be satisfied with the result and will win over future clients with your presentation made on a creative template from VEONIX. 

You certainly won’t find yourself in a situation where, at an event with multiple speakers, there is someone with a similar presentation, where all you can do is hope to speak earlier so as not to be labeled a “plagiarist.”

Therefore, if you have any difficulties when developing a presentation design, contact our company, we will give free recommendations on the design and content of the presentation.