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AI Presentation Design with Gamma & Beautiful.ai
Generate professional slide decks from prompts using Gamma, Beautiful.ai, and Tome, then edit AI layouts, apply your brand, and export to PowerPoint. You finish with a repeatable workflow that turns hours of slide-building into minutes.
For professionals, founders, marketers, and students who make slide decks and want AI to do the heavy lifting without producing generic-looking results.
Course content
Workbook & downloads
Put the course into practice — a printable workbook plus editable templates you can fill in and reuse.
Preview the workbook
This workbook turns the course into a deck you actually ship. Each section maps to one course module and walks you through generating, editing, branding, and exporting a real presentation in Gamma, Beautiful.ai, or Tome. Work through it with one live deck you owe this week, and you will finish with a polished file plus a reusable system.
From Blank Page to First Draft
Generate your first complete draft deck and learn to write a prompt that produces a usable result.
Exercise: Generate three drafts from three prompts
In Gamma, generate a 10-slide deck three times using a weak prompt, a medium prompt, and a strong prompt. Compare the results to feel how much prompt specificity matters before you invest any editing time.
- Weak: write make a deck about [your topic] and generate.
- Medium: add the audience and the goal to the prompt and generate again.
- Strong: add audience, goal, named slide structure, tone, and a max-words-per-slide cap, then generate.
- Which draft needed the least editing, and which single prompt ingredient made the biggest difference?
Worksheet: Deck brief
Fill this in before you generate anything. A clear brief is what separates a usable first draft from a generic one. Reuse it as the backbone of your generation prompt.
- Deck topic / working title
- Audience (who is in the room)
- The one decision or action I want from them
- Slide sequence (list each slide in order)
- Tone (3 adjectives)
- Target slide count
- Max words per slide
Checklist: First-draft readiness
- I created an account and have AI credits or an active plan
- I wrote a brief covering audience, goal, structure, tone, and length
- I generated a complete draft and scrolled the whole deck once
- I noted the two or three weakest slides without editing them yet
- I saved the draft so I can return to it
Editing AI Layouts Without Breaking Them
Turn a rough generated draft into slides that read cleanly by cutting text, fixing hierarchy, reordering the story, and adding real visuals.
Exercise: The subtraction pass
Open your draft and edit every slide for message and emphasis only. Do not change colors or fonts yet. Target the 6-by-6 guideline and one dominant idea per slide.
- Rewrite each slide title as the takeaway, not the topic.
- Delete every sentence you would say out loud anyway.
- Promote the single most important number or phrase to large type on each slide.
- Find one crowded slide and split it into two.
Worksheet: Slide-by-slide edit log
For each slide, capture its single message and the one change it needs. Filling this in forces you to decide what each slide is actually for.
- Slide number
- Current title
- The one message of this slide
- Stronger takeaway title
- Edit needed (cut text / split / reorder / new visual / change layout)
- Done? (yes/no)
Exercise: Reorder the story
Switch to outline or slide-sorter view and re-sequence the deck so the titles alone tell the story. Resist rebuilding slides — only drag and merge.
- Read just the slide titles top to bottom — do they tell the story without the bodies?
- Move any slide that breaks the flow (for a pitch, try moving Why Now earlier).
- Merge two thin slides; confirm nothing important was lost.
- Read the titles again after reordering to confirm it flows.
Checklist: Visuals upgrade
- Every slide with three or more numbers is now a chart, not text
- Decorative AI photos are replaced with icons, screenshots, real product photos, or white space
- Each chart has a takeaway label, axis labels, and no 3D effects
- No slide has a visual that fails to help the viewer understand faster
- The deck reads cleanly on a quick scroll-through
Brand Alignment and Consistency
Build a brand kit, apply it to the whole deck in one move, and run a consistency audit so the deck reads as credible.
Worksheet: Brand kit capture
Assemble your brand assets once so you never hunt for them mid-edit. Save this at the top of your reusable deck document and reuse it for every future deck.
- Primary color (hex)
- Secondary color (hex)
- Accent color (hex)
- Heading font
- Body font
- Logo file location (transparent PNG)
- Image style description
- Do-not-use rules (e.g. color pairings that fail contrast)
Exercise: Theme the whole deck at once
Apply your brand kit globally rather than slide by slide, then place your logo consistently. This is the move that makes a deck look like one coherent company.
- Open the theme or brand panel and enter your three hex codes and two fonts.
- Confirm the change rippled across every slide in one pass.
- Place your logo small and in the same corner on every slide.
- Check one body-text-on-background pairing in a free contrast checker — does it meet 4.5 to 1?
Checklist: Pre-share consistency audit
- Titles use the same font, size, and position on every slide
- Only my brand kit hex codes appear — no stray default blues or grays
- Margins and spacing are consistent; nothing is crammed to an edge
- Capitalization style (title or sentence case) is uniform throughout
- One bullet style is used everywhere
- I shared a link and got one outside reaction to what is confusing or ugly
Export, Delivery, and a Repeatable Workflow
Export a clean PowerPoint or PDF, choose the right tool for each deck type, and lock in a personal system that makes every future deck fast.
Exercise: Export and stress-test
Export your finished deck to PowerPoint and open it where you will actually present. Catch the font, spacing, and chart issues now, not in front of an audience.
- Export to .pptx and open it in PowerPoint.
- Check whether your brand font survived or was substituted — install or embed the font if needed.
- Scan for any text that now overflows its box and nudge the size down a point.
- Confirm native charts came through editable, not flattened to images.
Worksheet: Tool-choice decision record
Decide which tool you will reach for by deck type so you never fight a tool's grain again. Confirm current pricing on each vendor site before recording it.
- Deck type (pitch / sales / training / update)
- Chosen tool (Gamma / Beautiful.ai / Tome)
- Why this tool fits this deck type
- Current plan and limit I am relying on (verified today)
- Export format I will deliver in (.pptx / Google Slides / PDF)
Checklist: Reusable system in place
- My best prompts are saved in one document, titled by deck type
- My brand kit lives at the top of that document
- I saved a fully styled deck in my chosen tool as a duplicable template
- I can run the five-step loop (prompt, edit, brand, check, export) from memory
- I scheduled a quarterly review to prune prompts as tools change
Your Action Plan
- Pick one real deck you owe this week and use it for every step below.
- Write a deck brief covering audience, goal, slide sequence, tone, and length.
- Generate a 10-slide draft in Gamma from a strong prompt and read it as an editor.
- Run the subtraction pass: cut text, set one dominant idea and takeaway title per slide.
- Reorder the story in slide-sorter view until the titles alone read cleanly.
- Replace generic visuals with charts, icons, screenshots, or white space.
- Build and save your brand kit, then theme the whole deck in one move.
- Run the two-minute consistency audit and get one outside reaction.
- Export to .pptx and stress-test it in the app you will present from.
- Save your prompt, brand kit, and a template so your next deck takes under an hour.
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