Elevate your slide decks with AI

In today’s newsletter, we’re looking at AI tools for nailing your presentations, covering:

• Tips for finding the right AI slide deck tool for you.

• How to use AI to add real flair to your presentations.

• And the do’s and don’ts of using AI when crafting your slides.

Ask anyone who has a history of putting together PowerPoint presentations and they’ll likely describe the process like this: Six laborious hours creating a deck, and 20 minutes presenting it.

Fortunately, AI is here to save you time and energy so that when building your next slide deck, you never have to deal with the font selection dilemma ever again.

How to find the best AI app for your slide deck.

Enduring a PowerPoint presentation loaded up with text or ugly clip art is almost as bad as sitting through a root canal.

Thankfully, there are some great AI-powered tools for creating professional and engaging decks, but which is the best tool for the job? Here are some things to consider:

1/ Who is your deck for?

Whether you’re presenting to a room full of middle schoolers or a handful of potential investors, being clear on who you’re talking to can inform the right type of tool for the job.

For instance, an educator who is heavily invested in Google Classroom might find Slides AI (a Google Slides plugin) fits their workflow perfectly. Meanwhile, a startup founder could turn to Pitches.ai to conjure up a fresh pitch deck.

In short, knowing who you’re crafting your message for will help you decide which tool truly fits your needs.

2/ How much time do you have?

If you’ve left your presentation preparation to the last minute, don’t panic. (OK, panic a little, but get it out of your system quickly - you've got a slide deck to put together!)

Magic Slides will get you to a fully baked deck in minutes, while Simplified’s one-click Presentation Maker is almost effortless.

Of course, if you’re not staring at an ominous deadline, check out Decktopus or Beautiful.ai. Both will give you good-looking slides out the gate, and with plenty of customization features.

So (unlike your panicking peers) you can spend some time on your design, teasing out something that would make Leonardo da Vinci blush.

3/ How creative do you want to be?

Some people want just the basics: plenty of negative space, some stock imagery, all finished with a nicely-centered logo. But if you’ve got bigger ambitions, you’re probably looking to push the limits of what a deck can be. With Tome, you can ask the AI to generate 3D animations, video clips, and more.

Yeah, PowerPoint is looking a little creaky right now, eh?

Push your slides further with generative images and text.

Whether you use an AI-enabled tool to build your presentation or not, don’t sleep on all the great apps that can populate your deck with killer content.

From well-known AI image apps such as Midjourney and Dall-E to underdogs like OpenDream AI and BlueWillow, you have a ton of options when it comes to generating awe-inspiring images.

(Sidenote: If you want to get to grips with BlueWillow, check out the prompt tutorial video below.)

Additionally, you can refine your text using apps such as heavyweights like ChatGPT and Bard, while Perplexity can help with your topic research, and ​​Chatsonic can pull in data from a Google Search.

Simply put, by leveraging additional AI tools, you can create PowerPoint presentations so impressive that your colleagues might ask for an encore. (They probably won’t, but they might.)

The do's and don'ts of AI-powered PowerPoint mastery.

Final thoughts.

Creating slide presentations used to be a time-consuming task, fraught with risk: Get it right, and you’re a champion among your peers, but get it wrong, and you just made enemies of all those around you.

AI presentation apps have made it so that you never have to run that gauntlet again. Plus, you don’t have to spend hours noodling around with the right combination of slide transitions. What an age we live in.