How to Use the "Black and White" Group of the Time Savers Add-in for PowerPoint

Please note: Some changes may have been made to the Time Savers Add-in for PowerPoint since the making of this video.

The “Black and White” group is part of the “TS Publish” tab (previously called “Time Savers 3”) of the Time Savers Add-in for PowerPoint.

The tools in this part of the Time Savers Add-in make it possible for you to:

Before using this tool to change pictures to black and white, please check the TOU of any clipartists whose images you are using.
Some clipartists do not allow you to alter their images (including changing the colors).
If you are unsure, reach out to the clipartist in question and check with them. You can explain what the add-in does (changes the color saturation, contrast and brightness to achieve a black and white effect) and ask the clipartist if they are okay with you doing this with their images.
If the clipartist has provided a black and white version of their colour images, then their BW images would probably be better quality than what you would get by changing a colour image to black and white with this tool.
If the clipartist is okay with you using this tool, and has also provided BW images, it is up to you to weigh up the difference between the time you would save swopping all the images and the quality difference and decide which option you would rather use.
This tool is particularly useful for changing images to BW when you don’t have BW versions of the images – provided that the clipartists allow it.

Text

You can choose if you want to change text on your selected slides to black and white.
Options available if you choose to change text:
- All black – All text will be changed to black, regardless of the original color.
- Black and white – Text will be changed to either black or white, depending on the original colour and the shape fill.

Shapes

You can choose if you want to change shapes on your selected slides to black and white.
Options available if you choose to change shapes:
- All white – All shape fills will be changed to white, regardless of the original color.
- Black and white – Shape fills will be changed to either black or white, depending on the original colour and the text color.
- Greyscale – Shape fills will be changed to greyscale based on the original color.
- All black – All shape fills will be changed to black, regardless of the original color, unless the original color is white.

Pictures

You can choose if you want to change pictures on your selected slides to black and white.
Options available if you choose to change pictures:
- Setting 1 – Best for lighter pictures with solid black outlines (may result in some shaded areas).
- Setting 2 – Best for darker pictures with solid black outlines (changes to black-line).
- Setting 3 – Best for lighter pictures with non-black outlines.
- Setting 4 – Best for darker pictures with non-black outlines.
- Greyscale – Best for pictures with no outlines.

The contents on all the selected slides will be changed from color to black and white based on the settings you have chosen.

Change the selected picture(s) or all pictures on selected slides to setting greyscale.

Change the selected picture(s) to back to color.
Note:
- If you inserted the picture using the Time Savers Add-in (version 7.0 or later), then the picture will be replaced with the original picture, using the stored file path.
- If the picture does not have a file path stored, or if there is no longer a picture in the original location, then the picture will need to be ‘Reset’ in order to change it back to color. This will cause it to lose any existing formatting you have added (background fills, outlines, etc.). If you do not wish for this to happen, you will be able to choose not to reset the pictures, and then you can replace the pictures yourself (using the Time Savers Add-in, or using PowerPoint’s built in ‘Change Picture’ function.
- This function can only be used for individually selected pictures, not for all pictures on selected slides.

You can also adjust the brightness and contrast of the selected pictures or all pictures on selected slides if none of the default settings are satisfactory for the pictures you are using.