Google Slides Just Upgraded: New AI ‘Beautify’ Feature✨
Stop wasting hours on slide design and start focusing on your message! 🎨
If you dread building slide decks, this video is for you. Dr. Shannon Gregg (President of Cloud Adoption Solutions) demonstrates how to use the latest AI-driven features in Google Slides and Gamma.app to transform simple text into professional, beautiful presentations in seconds.
What you’ll learn in this video:
How to use the new "Beautify" feature (look for the banana!) in Google Slides.
Transforming complex text prompts into high-quality, framed graphics.
A look at Google Labs and the future of AI-generated infographics and studio visuals.
A comparison with Gamma.app: How to generate full outlines and slide decks from a single line of text.
Professional tips on Slide Theory: Why fewer words on a slide lead to better audience engagement.
Whether you're presenting a PhD dissertation or a sales pitch, these AI tools act as your personal graphic designer. Watch as Shannon takes a complex topic—Lewin’s Theory of Change—and turns it into a visual masterpiece instantly.
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VIDEO TRANSCRIPT:
If you, like me, are not a huge fan of creating PowerPoint slides or slide decks for your meetings, boy, do I have some exciting news for you. Google has released a few new features that will allow you to create beautiful slides without much time. So let me show you, and at the end, I will also give you a little insight into how to use Gamma.app, which I think many of you have heard about from me before.
My name is Dr. Shannon Gregg. I am the president of Cloud Adoption Solutions, a Salesforce consultancy, and I also teach professional selling and sales technology at Point Park University. Let's get into it.
So, if you go into your standard Google slideshow and you start to insert some information, you will see—once you have enough words in here—'Beautify this slide.' Now, you may be a little bit better at creating slides than I am, and maybe you want to add some photos. I mean, you can definitely insert some photos inside of there, and Google will take that into account for you. So let's say I want to find something for 'freeze,' and I'll stick that stock image in there. Here's somebody who's freezing.
So now you see down here at the bottom, there's this little banana with 'Beautify this slide,' and you can use that in a couple of different ways to help you visualize. Let me go ahead and click that. So, that's pulling through some visualizations that are working on the words that I have entered into the slide. In this particular case, I literally grabbed two sentences from my PhD dissertation, which, excitingly, was on the theories that will help you to identify CRM user adoption. I work in Salesforce all day, don't blame me!
So, Google's going to start to generate a slide that is much more beautiful. Look how fast that was. This is much more beautiful than what I had in here already. So let's go ahead and replace that; let's pull that over into its own slide. Let's do it.
Alright, so let's check this out. Now, you can see that this filled this out, and I'll close this so you can see it a little bit more. Lewin's theory of change: the process. It's predicated on three primary steps—unfreeze, change, refreeze. This is all true; these were the words that I put inside of here. So you can see it used the photo that I stuck in there very quickly, gave it a little frame, created this background, and also created this graphic, which I think is incredible. You saw how fast that happened, so that was awesome. I'm totally digging this.
If you have presentations to give and are not a graphic designer, or don't have time to have somebody help you create one, this is a really great way for you to get around that. So then, Google also has, now, a way that you can start creating slides all the way from the beginning. They've got this beta version of creating polished slides from simple text prompts, which I believe is Google's answer to Gamma.app. Google has said, 'Oh, really, Gamma? You're doing that? So can we. . . . .
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