These cartoonish characters add absolutely no value to your slide and make you look a tacky presenter too. If you haven’t heard so many presentation experts screaming their heads off calling clipart crappy and tacky, hear us now. Sin 5: Cliparts that add no value, except shock value The Do slide below is a good way to arranged multiple pictures in a single slide. Or give them a frame using the default frames in PowerPoint ( Format tab). WHAT TO DO: Place your image along grids using the Gridlines feature ( View tab) in PowerPoint. The Don’t slide below is a bad way to arrange your images. This, however, requires basic design knowledge such as giving frames or borders to each image. require you to arrange multiple visuals aesthetically. A campus view, various benefits of a product, trip collage, etc. Yes, there are times when the slide warrants multiple pictures. If you want to show each goal visually, dedicate a complete slide to each. Choose any visual that represents Goals and Objectives it’s not necessary to pick an image for each of those goals. WHAT TO DO: Choose one high quality image that sums up the main theme of the slide. All visuals used in the slide are pretty relevant and the slide would have been great if the presenter went with a single, big image. For instance, in the Don’t slide below, the presenter has a slide on business goals and objectives of a start-up. Why do they do this? They find several relevant visuals for a single slide. They collect as many images as can be fit into a slide and squeeze their content into the space left. These presenters are the ones who have taken the use-image-advice a bit too seriously. WHAT TO DO: If you have lots of text to incorporate, allocate half the slide to text and half to the image as you can see in the Do slide below: For instance, in the Don’t slide below, the presenter has killed the action picture of football by using it up in such small space. A high quality image lets you play up that visual on your slide, so go for it. But a blurry image casts a very poor impression.ĭon’t use tiny images that require audience to carry binoculars. If you have to shell out a few dollars, then do. Sorry folks, you have to search harder for that high quality image. It’s not that presenters do not see that the image in their slide is of poor quality but that is the last desperate move they make when they can’t find any better visual in its place. Visuals in Presentations: Best and Worst Practices Ready for some introspection? Compare yourself with these 11 yardsticks to determine your visual literacy: You won’t believe how a little care while handling images can make your presentation a visual success. Lucky for you, we have put together a complete list of dos and don’ts for adding images to slides. Are you guilty of poor selection of visuals? Are your experiments at creating visual slides turning into disasters? Many presenters are using images horribly in their presentations!įrom pixelated visuals to copyright images with watermarks clearly visible on them to many other disasters, presenters are coming up with unique ways to kill all the fun.
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