One of the tools that I really like inside of Google Slides allows you to draw from a set of pre-designed
shapes.
Let me show you.
So in this blank slide, I'm going to add a shape.
I can do it with this dropdown right here, which is the shapes dropdown.
Or I could go to insert shape and you'll see the very same menu.
If you look at each of these menus, shapes, arrows, call outs and equations, you can see different
sets of shapes arranged by category.
Arrows are great, for example, for process diagrams.
I'm going to choose one of the shapes that's designed to fit in the corner of my slide.
This one right here, if I click it, then I get a crosshair and I can drag the shape into place by
clicking and dragging away from the center.
If I hold shift while I drag, it'll maintain the aspect ratio of the shape, ensuring that the height
to width ratio isn't changed.
So there you can see the shape is drawn once the shape is drawn.
I've got a number of controls over the shape.
First, I can change the color of the shape.
I can choose a solid color like this orange, or I can choose from a gradient pattern.
Like this orange to white gradient pattern.
Or I can make my own custom gradient using the gradient sliders.
I'm actually going to choose a solid color.
And let's go back to Orange.
I can also choose to alter the border around the item.
If I choose transparent, the border will disappear.
I can choose a color for the border.
I can also choose a thickness of the border.
One pixel to a really thick 24 pixels that looks pretty bad.
Let's go back to our single pixel border.
Wait.
I can also choose a pattern for the border like that.
I'm going to use copy and paste and create an additional instance of this particular shape.
Edit copy.
Edit paste, I can move any shape around simply by dragging notice, I'm dragging it here to the right,
and if I want to rotate it, I can use this handle on the outside of the bounding box.
And if I hold shifts, it'll rotate specifically in about 15 degree increments.
I'm going to drag this to the bottom right hand corner, and now we've got identical shapes in each
corner.
With any shape I can control, click or right click and.
Choose format options, and here you'll see traditional format options that are within Google Slides.
For example, I can directly enter a size and rotation for the shape.
I can lock the aspect ratio so the height to with ratio doesn't change.
I can position it, notice I'm in the top left, but I'm a little bit off instead of zero point zero
zero zero point zero two, so I'm going to hand enter zero point zero zero for both of this and move
this exactly into the top left corner.
I can also add a drop shadow to my shape, adjust the look of the drop shadow by changing the transparency
angle, distance or blur radius.
And if I want, I can add a reflection to my particular shape.
So lots of options and lots of shapes available to you and Google Slides.