It all Starts With a Title Slide

LetsGo Slides is a tool for co-creating a presentation together with AI, and uses the information you’ve already authored in your slides presentation (you don’t need to enter configuration parameters into a separate window or use a chatbot). As you make changes to the presentation, LetsGo Slides adapts to the changes you make. Think of LetsGo Slides as a creative team you’re collaborating with. A creative team needs a “creative brief” to begin, and this is where your Title slide comes in. LetsGo Slides uses the Title slide as the purpose for the presentation. A simple, purposeful Title slide guides LetsGo Slides to create stunning content for your entire presentation.

In Google Slides™, create a new presentation, and enter “What to see in San Francisco” as the title of the Title slide. When you’re done, it should look like this:

We’re going to create an entire presentation with images, text and real-time information, using this Title slide and LetsGo Slides.

1. Create Presentation

LetsGo Slides is a Google Slides™ Add on. Install it from Google Workspace Marketplace and start a free trial (no registration or credit card required). After installing LetsGo Slides, and starting LetsGo Slides by choosing the menu item Extensions > LetsGo Slides > LetsGo Slides. Now you’re ready to get creative.

Click the “Create Presentation” button in the LetsGo Slides sidebar to create 10 new slides for your presentation. These slides are inserted immediately after the title slide. You can click Create Presentation as often as you like, and each time LetsGo Slides will add another 10 slides. Each time they will be different. You can edit or remove the new slides, these are regular Google Slides™ slides.

2. Format with Title and Text layout

Now you have created a presentation, lets add some more content to each slide. In the Google Slides™ filmstrip, Select the second slide, which might be titled “Golden Gate Bridge” (you’re using advanced AI, the results are different every time). Click the “Title and text layout” button.

LetsGo Slides formats the slide as a bullet point, text-and-bullets ,or essay layout. If you want something different, click the “Title and text” layout button again to create fresh content for the slide. When you’re finished, the slide may look similar to the following:

You can revert to a previous layout, by using the Edit > Undo menu item. As you change, remove or re-create slides, LetsGo Slides automatically adjusts to the changes in your presentation.

3. Create a Background Image

Click the Create and Insert Background image button to insert a background image for the slide.

LetsGo Slides creates an image, then inserts the image behind any other content on the slide. If you click the “Create and Insert Background image” button again, LetsGo Slides creates a fresh image, and replaces the previous background image.

Click the Background images tab in the LetsGo Slides sidebar, to see this and any other images you’ve created automatically stored in a gallery. Use the “previous” and “next” buttons scroll though the images, click on an image to insert it as the slide background. can re-use or save them to use elsewhere. Every image you create is generated for you by AI, is one-of-a-kind, royalty free and the copyright belongs to you.

When a background image makes the text hard to read, use the overlay slider to dim or brighten the image.

4. Use Real-Time Information

LetsGo Slides can use “real-time information” from the internet when creating slide layouts. Change the next slide title to “What to see in San Francisco this month”, then hold the <Shift> key, and click “Create Title and text layout”.

LetsGo Slides uses up-to-date information from the internet for the content. Be warned! Sometimes the results are unpredictable!

Open the speaker notes for the slide (Yes! LetsGo Slides automatically creates speaker notes for each slide), LetsGo Slides automatically adds citations/sources for any content retrieved from the internet at the end of the speaker notes.

5. Apply a Theme

Until now we’ve used a General theme. You can also change the writing and image styles. Lets try the Comic Book theme.

In the LetsGo Slides sidebar:

1. Open the Themes tab

2. Click the “Next” button until you see the Comic Book theme

3. Go back to the Create menu

4. Apply a “Title and text” layout, or

5. Add a background image

Applying a theme doesn’t change what you’ve already created. Every new image will be created as a vintage comic illustration, and every text layout will be written with a humorous writing style.

There are a number of different business and creative themes, Investor Presentation, Marketing Plan and Sales Presentation. Each theme uses a unique writing and image style, and image style.

6. Get to know the Info Button

LetsGo Slides uses information from the Title slide to customize the text and images it creates. You can check what LetsGo Slides knows about your presentation by clicking the info button in the top-right area of the banner

Clicking the Info button opens a popup that shows what it knows about this presentation, the current theme, the audience, and whether its a business or personal presentation. As you create Title slides for business or specialist presentations, use the Info button to double-check whether LetsGo Slides understands your presentation.

Click the “How to format your title slide” button in the info popup for guidance and some pre-built title slide examples.

7. What to Try Next

Whew! Thats the basics, and LetsGo Slides does a lot more!

• Try the “Mixed Layout” button to create a layout with text and images

• Use the “Reword text” button to rephrase a selected portion of text, or translate to another language.

• Use the “Create slide” button to create a single new slide designed to complement the other slides in the presentation.

• The “Create sticker” button creates smaller “sticker images” based on the content of the slide that sit inline with the text. For some of the themes (like Comic book) the stickers have transparent backgrounds.

LetsGo Slides is a tool to help you be more creative. Yes it can generate an entire slide deck, but it helps you the most as you work with it to be creative.