Review: VisualBee offers Powerful Presentations with a click

in Reviews by Doron Gez — June 9, 2010 at 7:35 am | 6 comments

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VisualBee, an Israeli startup presenting today at the HTIA Conference, develops technology which enhances PowerPoint presentations. The software automatically analyzes the text and format of the users PP slides and enhances them with images, background colours and new design. Does the software deliver the goods? We took it for a spin.

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For this review we used the VisualBee free Beta 3 version on 2 different presentations. The first is an old, well built presentation, and the second is a new basic presentation which we produced in minutes just to test VisualBee.

Before starting work with VisualBee, the user must download and register the software, which was simple and free from  special difficulties. The first presentation I tested on VisualBee was one I built in minutes with plane text and a few images. The VisualBee has 5 different set themes to choose from: Classic, Formal, Colorful, Artistic and Extreme. For this Presentation I found the artistic theme to be the best fit, here is the ‘before’ and ‘after’ VisualBee enhancement:

And after running VisualBee

The result, which was indeed attained with a single click, is impressive, although on other slides with more text the changes were kept mostly to the background while nothing was done to the format and design. The final result of the complete presentation is not bad considering the minimal effort invested in  copying simple text to slides.

In our second case, I took a ready, well edited and organized presentation and ran it through the VisualBee application. In this case the result was really exciting and the application matched relevant images, design and background:

In conclusion, VisualBee does deliver an enhanced slideshow with ‘one-click’, although, in order to receive a quality result there is still a need for  thought  by the user in organizing the content and structure of the presentation before running the software. The software also enables fine tuning and changes after the automatic work is done, on the VisualBee screen itslef. It will be interesting to follow VisualBee’s next releases and see the development of this automatic tool in the future.

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