Gamma Presentation Software - Deep Dive [And No Bullshit Review]
If you are looking for the perfect tool for creating presentations and slides in minutes, this blog is for you because I will dive deep into the capabilities
of Gamma.
As the former president of the "International Toastmasters Lisbon" I know a thing or two about presentations and how to convince your audience of your points. For years, I had to deliver either or evaluate the speeches of my peers every Monday.
For our big comparison of presentation software I tested Gamma's "Create presentations from scratch" functionality, which allowed me to write a single prompt to make a slideshow and it has worked amazingly by the way.
For this blog post, I wanted to dive deeper into the "Turn notes into presentations" feature, so let me take you through each step and all the options along the way. I'll also honestly share with you what has worked well, what didn't (spoiler: it wasn't much!) and of course also which product features I think will make your life much easier.
To turn my notes into a full presentation, Gamma will have to expand my text, add pictures, and structure everything so the audience can easily follow my speech.
The generation process with Gamma
So I'm adding a few notes as bullet points (for this example, I added the 'top 10 things presentation software can do today' which is like a meta layer (ask Gamma to put into a presentation what Gamma is already able to do), but trust me, it works quite well).
In the next step, the tool will ask us to refine the prompt and choose from a few different settings, such as the tone of voice, target audience, and output language. We can even add AI-generated images, pick a style and the tool (on the free plan we can choose between Flux Fast 1.1, Imagen 3 from Google, and Playground 2.5.).
Next we get to choose a theme, but don't worry, this still can be changed later if you don't like it.
Now the AI will do its magic! In less than a minute, my deck is ready. And I like it a lot!
The generated presentations look great; the text's colors, placement, and formatting are harmonious and, honestly, better than I would have done.
The content makes sense and doesn't sound like AI jibberish. Gamma already did a great job here, but let's stretch the tool a bit. Let's expand the text even further, which by the way is such a time saver: its integrated GenAI features for text and images let you work straight within one tool without compromising quality. No switching windows back and forth, no copy and pasting.
From this short text
To the expanded version here
And again, Gamma doesn't let us down, while the specific large language model integrated into Gamma isn't publicly disclosed, it's obviously a newer version because the text sounds great.
Gamma additional features and hacks
The built-in analytics feature lets you take a peek at page views and card engagement. This way, you'll know who actually checked out your presentation and how far and who ignored it as if it were a bill collector.
Add speaker notes straight on the page itself, this window will be your main window in presenter view, while your slides will show below.
Once your first presentation draft is created, you can type / (slash) in to insert content blocks, like in Notion or Confluence.
Easily share your slides via link, email invite, export or even embed it via code onto a website.
Gamma Pros
Excellent ease of use and very clear dashboard. If still in doubt, the guide will tell you everything you need to know.
The AI-created images were very relevant, and followed my prompt perfectly.
You get 400 AI credits on the free plan, which is by far the most generous offer I've seen so far (except for the tools that don't work, but we really don't need their credits). Expanding a text for example costs you 5 credits.
The dark side of Gamma (aka Gamma Cons)
Weird position to put this picture, but easily changeable.
Is still almost like a full moon - not dark at all really.
The one small thing I didn't think worked perfectly was this:
Once my first draft was created, I added a newly generated image straight within the slide and the spacing didn't make much sense. Plus I really didn’t like the generated picture, but I guess that’s arguable.
And of course, I was able to move things around easily, so I feel a bit nit-picky even mentioning this.
So I guess the AI still needs us humans to create a perfect presentation. Thank god! But probably not for long, I feel like Gamma is on its way to make us obsolete soon, the software is just too strong. Well, nobody will complain about not having to create presentations by hand anymore, I'm sure.
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