How to Make Digital Signage Content with PowerPoint

What is digital signage? Digital signage is a form of electronic display that shows advertising information on the screen. Digital signs can be found in public and private environments, such as retail stores and corporate buildings.

Are you troubled with how to make attractive digital signage content? Usually, asking a third party company to make digital signage content is quite expensive and time-costing. Have you ever imagined creating digital signage content with PowerPoint by yourself.

Why Select PowerPoint to Create Digital Signage Content:

• PowerPoint is a very popular program. Most people especially office staff have PowerPoint installed on their computers.
• PowerPoint is quite user-friendly. Only after some clicks, the interesting and attractive PowerPoint digital signage content will come out.
• The powerful editing features in PowerPoint allows you to add videos, pictures, animations etc. to the presentation.

Now, follow these steps to create dynamic PowerPoint digital signage content.

1. Create slides of suitable size for your PowerPoint digital signage

Create a new slide. The default size of the slide is On-screen shot (4:3). It’s easy to set up the page size to fit your digital signage display devices in PowerPoint. You just need to click Design| Page Setup, there’re three kinds of on-screen show size: 4:3, 16:9 and 16:10 to meet different requirements of digital signage display. You also can adjust the size by changing the width and height.

2. Select an attractive PowerPoint template for your PowerPoint digital signage.

With a delicate PowerPoint template, your PPT digital signage content will be more attractive. According to different PowerPoint digital signage subjects you can select different PowerPoint templates. For example, if you want to make a PowerPoint digital signage about Independence Day, the templates of Independence Day theme is the suitable ones that you can select. There are many Free PowerPoint templates available online.

http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com/freetemplates/free-powerpoint-templates-download.html

You can also create the template by yourself following these steps: Open PowerPoint Program, View | Slide Master. Paste the photo you want to set as the main background. After that, click Close Master View.

3. Add text effect to your PowerPoint digital signage

Text effect is the most important part in PPT digital signage, and it can be used properly, it can greatly enhance your presentation. Apply the glow, bevel, and reflection effects to the text your want to emphasize, and dazzling WordArts styles help my presentations draw more attention from potential buyers. That’s wonderful.

In addition, in PowerPoint 2007 and 2010, the digital signage content can be well enhanced with SmartArt diagramming. SmartArt lets you visually represent a variety of concepts and ideas that might not work too well with just text.

4. Import rich multimedia files to PPT digital signage.

PowerPoint supports nearly all common multimedia files, no matter images, audio files or video clips.

• To add photos to your PPT digital signage, you just need to click Insert | Pictures, and then select the photos from your computer.
• To insert background music into your PPT digital signage, you just need to click Insert | Sound, and then select audio file you want to insert.
• There are a lot of animations available in PowerPoint. Adding animations to pictures will enhance the PPT digital signage.

Finally, the compelling PowerPoint digital signage content is well done. All you need to do is displaying it on your digital signage system. Unfortunately, most digital signage applications don't support playing PowerPoint files directly. So I advise converting PowerPoint to video format with a third party tool such as Wondershare PPT2Video to make the content compatible with digital signage. After the conversion, you can view your advertising presentation on digital signage in video format.

Admittedly, creating contents of digital signage with PowerPoint is a good choice to you. And it saves your time and money.