How to create a logo in PowerPoint

Would you like to create your own logo, product image, or course symbol in PowerPoint in a few minutes, following a few simple steps?

If so, you agree Good luck, just keep reading. I’m going to show you how to create this logo, and you can customize it however you want.

A logo or product image like this:

• Add interest to a sales page or ad training
• Strengthen your brand
• Create a compelling message

So get started!

1. Find an image

Find an image you want to use. I found this on Pixabay.com by searching for photos and the keyword “unity”. Find a striking image that you can crop to a square shape (1:1 aspect ratio). Download it.

2. Insert the image into a slide

Open PowerPoint with the default blank theme. Right-click the first slide and choose Layout, Blank to get rid of the placeholders.

Choose Insert, Images, and navigate to the image you downloaded to insert it.

3 . Crop the image

You want the image to be a square. Select it, click the Picture Format tab, and then click the Crop down arrow, not the Crop button itself, but the arrow below the button.

Choose Aspect Ratio, 1 :1. If necessary, drag the image inside the crop marks to get the part of the image you want. In this case, the center of the image was fine.

Click outside of the image to finish cropping.

4. Insert Circle

I used a circle as the outline for my image, but you could use a rounded rectangle (square) or a square.

If the image is large, drag it from one of the corners to make it smaller and move it to the side of the slide.

On the Home tab, in the Drawing group, click the Oval Shape. On the slide, press Shift and drag the slide to make a perfect circle. The size isn’t as important now because you can resize the logo later, but make it big enough to work with easily.

With the circle selected, click the Format Shape tab and choose Shape Fill and choose the white color.

Select Shape Outline and choose a color for the outline. I chose a dark green.

Choose Shape Outline again, then Weight, and choose a thicker weight. I chose 6 pts. but you can choose what you want. A thinner weight will look more delicate.

5. Fill in the circle with the image

To fill the circle with the image, follow these steps:

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Copy the image to the clipboard.

Right-click the circle and select Format Shape. Make sure the Fill & Line icon in the Format Shape panel is selected.

In the Fill section, choose Image or Texture Fill, and in the Image Source section, choose Clipboard.

Presto! The image is inside the circle.

It already looks good, but let’s add some text.

6. Add the text

On the Home tab in the Drawing section, click the Text Box item and drag the slide over the circle. Type the text for the top of the circle. In my case, I wrote, “REQUEST DOES”. The text is not required to be in all caps, but I decided to. Don’t worry about text size, font, or color at this point.

With text box selected , on the On the Home tab, in the Paragraph section, click the Center icon to center the text in the text box. Center the text box over the circle by dragging its boundary. You should see alignment guides when the text box is perfectly centered over the center of the circle.

Duplicate the text box, hold down Shift, and drag the copy to the bottom of the circle. (Pressing Shift makes sure the copy moves perfectly vertically.) Replace the text with the text below. I wrote “YOU ARE STRONGER”.

Try to make the 2 text boxes the same distance from the circle. You’ll see equidistant guides when they are. It doesn’t have to be perfect right now.

7. Curve the text around the circle

Now comes the magic.

Select the top text box. On the Format Shape tab, choose Text Effects, then Transform, then Arc option, as seen here. You don’t see much difference at first.

Now, drag the bottom center handle of the text box down, almost to the bottom of the circle. You can adjust it later, but start with that.

You should see the text arc around the circle with roughly the same curve. Note: You won’t see the effect until after the dragging process is complete.

At this point, make the following minor adjustments:

1. Change the text size, color, and font.
2. Drag the text box to up or down just a bit so that the distance from the circle draws you.
3. Drag the bottom center handle of the text box to make the curve of the text box match more precisely than the circle. This is a trial and error process, so keep making those little adjustments.

This is my Final result for the top text box.

Almost there!

Repeat the process for the bottom text box, but using the Arch Down text transform and dragging the handle center top up. When you do this, the two text boxes will overlap, so when making adjustments, be careful to select the one you want to work with.

8. Make it an image

Select the 3 objects. Right click and choose Save As Image. Save the image wherever you want. Now you can insert it into a sales page, banner, slide, blog post, social media post, anywhere you insert images.

Next Step

Create your own logo! or product image!

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Use the comments to ask questions too.

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