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Richard Wiese
I am having the WORST experience with your AI editor. I have given it specific instructions such as "MASTER CREATIVE DIRECTION
“Remove all luxury-tech, sci-fi, casino, metallic, black-and-gold, futuristic, or artificial design language.
This presentation should feel like:
Rolex expedition advertising
National Geographic editorial photography
The Explorers Club archives
premium documentary filmmaking
understated confidence
cinematic realism
elegant restraint
The deck should feel timeless, authentic, intelligent, and worldly — not flashy.
The photography must become the dominant emotional element on every page.”
MOST IMPORTANT FIX:
STOP MUTING THE PHOTOS
Right now Gamma is placing:
gray overlays
beige washes
dark filters
opacity masks
over extraordinary expedition photography.
That is killing the emotional power.
Use this instruction EXACTLY:
“Do not place heavy opacity overlays on photographs.
Preserve the original color, contrast, mood, and richness of the images.
If text readability is needed:
use subtle dark gradient strips only behind text,
or place text in negative space,
or place text outside the image entirely.
The photography must remain vivid, cinematic, and emotionally immersive.”
TYPOGRAPHY FIX
Right now the fonts are inconsistent and oversized.
You need a rigid typography system.
Use:
Headlines
Elegant serif only:
Canela
Chronicle
Freight Display
Adobe Garamond
Baskerville
or similar editorial serif
Body text
Simple clean sans serif:
Helvetica Neue
Avenir
Univers
Inter
TYPOGRAPHY RULES
“Use only TWO font families throughout the deck.
Maintain strict consistency:
same headline sizes,
same subtitle sizes,
same body sizes,
same spacing,
same margins,
same alignment system.
No oversized headlines dominating the page.
Avoid dramatic scaling differences between slides.”
IMAGE DESIGN RULES
This is critical.
Tell Gamma:
“Each slide should feel like a premium magazine spread.
Prefer:
full bleed photography,
large cinematic imagery,
asymmetrical editorial layouts,
restrained text placement,
generous whitespace,
elegant pacing.
Avoid:
boxed content,
centered corporate layouts,
busy templates,
heavy framing,
decorative borders,
glowing effects,
gold graphics,
sci-fi aesthetics.”
VERY IMPORTANT:
LET SOME SLIDES BREATHE
Right now every slide is trying to explain something.
You need emotional pauses.
For example:
a full bleed image of the elephant
almost no text
maybe only:
“Exploration creates emotional connection.”
That’s it.
The deck currently explains too much.
Rolex advertising does not over-explain.
THE DECK SHOULD HAVE 3 VISUAL RHYTHMS
- Full Bleed Emotional Image Slides
Minimal text.
- Editorial Split Layouts
Image left, elegant text right.
- Cinematic Quote Slides
One powerful line.
One powerful image.
THE FATHER SLIDE
This should become one of the strongest slides.
Not corporate.
Emotional.
Use the portrait large.
Minimal text.
Example:
A Legacy of Exploration
“Richard Wiese’s father was the first man to solo the Pacific Ocean by airplane and later flew the Pacific routes that became part of United Airlines.
Exploration and aviation have always been connected.”
That’s enough.
Do not overdesign this slide.
EMMY / PBS SLIDES
The old deck handled this MUCH better.
The new deck minimizes credibility.
You want:
authority,
prestige,
proof of quality.
Use:
ONE clean awards slide
Elegant typography.
No giant Emmy graphic.
ONE clean PBS trust slide
Minimal stats.
High-end documentary feel.
PBS is not a footnote.
It is a major differentiator.
IMPORTANT STRUCTURAL CHANGE
Right now Gamma is making:
“corporate pitch deck”
Instead make:
“visual narrative presentation”
The emotional journey should be:
Wonder
Legacy
Exploration
Prestige
Global reach
Partnership opportunity
Future storytelling
FINAL INSTRUCTION TO GAMMA
“Design this presentation as if it were being presented jointly by:
Rolex
National Geographic
The Explorers Club
PBS
The visual language should communicate:
authentic exploration, cinematic storytelling, global sophistication, and understated prestige.
The photography is the hero.
The design should support the photography — never overpower it.”
This is the direction that unlocks the deck" For some strange reason I cannot seem to get your agent to give me design withaphoto as back ground (full resolution ) with simple text. I have spent hours trying to get this solved
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Richard Wiese
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Richard Wiese
Thank you for getting back to me. I am now being forced to go into PPT to create and then trying to bring it back to Gamma for text alignment and to make pretty.It truley has been insane that I give it very specific prompts and it does something else, like putting a black wash or filter over some pictures and not others. Here is an example a picture that aim king to show "as is".It keeps sending me to different styles such as piano etc. I really want to make a simple PPT.I downloaded this program so I would not have to spend hours tweaking.I am happy to get on a call with a tech and they can go through this insanity live
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Nik Payne (Gamma design)
Richard Wiese oof, I’m really sorry. And thank you for the insanely detailed direction plus the screenshots, this is super helpful. I’m going to pass this to the team because “stop muting the photos” and “full-bleed image + minimal text” is a very clear ask.
Quick couple questions so we can pinpoint what’s forcing the overlays:
1) Are you trying to apply this look via a Theme across the whole deck, or just on a few specific slides?
2) When the photo gets muted, is it happening right after you set the image as the background, or only after the Agent restyles/regenerates the slide?
If you can share one slide where you want pure full-bleed (no wash) and it keeps getting overridden, that’d help us reproduce exactly.
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