There are two ways to create unique color themes: either by selecting a single color on the color wheel as your base color and building off of that, or by importing an image from Flickr or your hard disk and extracting harmonious combinations from the image. Extract colors from an image One of the coolest ways to assemble a unique color theme for a presentation is to create a simple palette by extracting colors from a key image that you think represents the appropriate colors for your talk. After you upload an image, Kuler automatically uses its color

So pick images that are simple and if you must use text be sparse. You can find royalty free images to use . Search flickr using the advanced options to show you creative commons images. There’s this popular format for public speaking called Ignite - It’s an evening of short talks with some special rules.  Similar to, but simpler than, Pecha Kucha , and more involved than lightening talks , in ignite each speakers gets 5 minutes - but must have 20 slides and each slide must automatically progress in 15 seconds.

Want to use a FlickR image into your presentation? Each of the cloudware apps I used let you search and add unique FlickR images with the same ease you'd have inserting a stale piece of clipart to a PowerPoint presentation. Easy access to fresh videos and pictures can make your presentation more visually unique and compelling than sticking to the over-used, cliched, packaged stock images and clip art built into standard software. Yes, you can design a PowerPoint presentation without using PowerPoint. And you don't need Keynote or OpenOffice, either.

My swipe at this takes the background image from one of their blogs and repurposes it for the background in the slides.  In slides after the title slide, I adjusted the opacity of the image to 25% so that it could serve as subtle branding that didn’t get in the way of the content.  The next three slides use full-bleed images and a little text to illustrate the point at hand more effectively than bullet points.  Last month, I attended the Government Web 2.0 Best Practices Workshop hosted by FEMA. 

Here’s a tip–there’s more soul on Flickr than iStockPhoto. Maybe that’s a carefully crafted image, or maybe it’s just what he threw on that morning, but it says a lot about who he is as a speaker. images to communicate your message. DarrenBarefoot.com Contact Jobs Speaking About Home September 3rd, 2007 Filed under: Mixed Bag , Technology , The Arts 71 Comments » Everything I Know About Presentations, I Learned in Theatre School An Unlikely Education I’ve been meaning to write this post for a while, and was inspired to get it done by Merlin Mann’s recent piece about improving his use of PowerPoint.

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Don’t be another cheetah… pay for your images. Cheetahs At least not when it comes to swiping images from the web. Take the time to search for images, and spend a little money on them. And if that’s too much, check out flickr’s Creative Commons –the photos are beautiful and FREE*. Have you ever done a presentation for a product you didn’t believe in? How ’bout for a product that doesn’t even exist?

Black font, white background, no images throughout the entire presentation This Use full slide images (or any images).  A common practice is to "download a comp", which is a free copy of the image.  These comps come with "watermarks" on them, which is some form of shape or logo that would basically render the image unusable except There's an inherent relationship between a presenter and his/her audience.  The presenter hopes that the audience shows up (on time), with sincere interest in what the presenter has to say. 

Photos ( Zenfolio | Flickr ) Archives About Contact Dear Speakers By James Duncan Davidson on March 8, 2009 12:22 AM | 71 Comments Tagged: advice, speaking Last week, while shooting eComm 2009 in Burlingame, I started posting a set of thoughts on Twitter, all starting out Dear Speaker . On the other hand, you shouldn’t make it hard on the photographers and videographers that are trying to capture your image. Getting up on stage and speaking is a difficult and demanding thing to do.

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