Now, I like to design my own slides.
Choosing colors, typography, layout, et cetera.
But if you're not much of a designer or if you just want a quicker solution, there are a number of
themes available inside of Google Slides itself and on the web that you can employ.
Let's take a look.
So I've opened this brand new documents, and you can see the themes panel here on the right.
If you don't see it, simply click the theme button from the toolbar and the panel will appear.
Now you can apply a theme to a blank presentation or to a presentation you've already created.
I recommend selecting your theme first.
Otherwise, sometimes you're trying to fit square pegs into round holes, so to speak.
So to apply a theme at this point, we simply click it.
And this applies the Beach Day theme.
Now, the theme includes a number of different elements.
First, the theme includes a color scheme.
You'll notice the green color here and also the dark gray black for the text.
It also includes specific typography.
When I select a new slide.
You can see the typography for this particular layout.
And as I mentioned earlier, the actual layouts differ from theme to theme.
So we could select the section header layout, for example, and then simply follow the instructions.
To add content to the particular theme slideshow.
There are other resources outside of Google Slides itself where you can get themes.
Let me show you this is one of my favorites.
It's called Slides Carnival.
It's got many different themes and most of them are free.
You'll see an icon here indicating if they're for PowerPoint or Google Slides or both.
This particular one, called clean, minimal presentation, works on both PowerPoint and Google Slides.
Let's use it.
I'm going to click it.
It's going to give more information about this particular theme.
You can click through and see the different layouts that are included in the theme.
This one, it looks like it includes 40.
Then what's his download, the template, I'm going to click Google Slides now, the way this works
is it copies the theme into your own instance of Google Slides.
So now that I could make a copy, you can see we're opening Google Slides and all of the layouts are
here in sample slide.
We've got 40 sample slides, all of which have different parts of the theme.
You can see this theme is pretty extensive, including everything from a business model, canvas to
different charts and diagrams to different types of text layouts.
Themes are available from other types of resources as well.
I happen to have a membership in Envato Elements, which sources everything from stock video to audio
to themes for Google Slides.
Let's take a look at one.
So this is a technology Google Slides template off of Envato Elements.
Now, this one works a little differently because when I click download to download the theme, it's
actually going to download a file to my computer.
Notice the zip right here in the bottom right.
Once we unzip the template, you'll see in here, there are a couple of different folders, including
documentation to load this theme, and we're going to go back to Google Slides.
And at the very bottom of the themes panel, you'll notice important theme.
From import theme, I'm going to make sure I'm on upload.
And I'm going to select the file now, I'm going to navigate to the theme I just downloaded.
Google Slides, and it's got both of 16 by nine and wide screen theme.
I'm going to use a 16 by nine.
Click on the template, click Open.
It takes a moment to upload.
Then it gives me the theme to import, I'll click the import theme button.
And now this particular theme is uploaded if I.
Look at apply layout, you'll see all of the different layouts that are part of this individual theme.
OK, so we look at the themes that are included in Google Slides.
We've opened a new theme from a downloadable source and we've imported a theme file into Google Slides.
So that gets you started with themes.
Hope you find some themes that you like.