As digital cameras have become ubiquitous, and cheap (or free) photo websites plentiful, more people than ever are using images in presentations. Images are not appropriate for every kind of talk, but even when images are appropriate (such as keynote/ballroom style presentations), people are still making the same common mistakes. So here are some things to keep in mind if you use images in your next talk. (Get Get a larger version of the "slides" image here. ) Case study: a single slide Let's imagine you are preparing a presentation for a large audience on current issues in Japanese education.

Tags: Image PowerPoint 2007’s shadows are so much better than 2003’s. In this video lesson, I show you how to use all the settings. And it’s a contest with free prizes! Listen to the video!

It's all actually quite simple: Big type and large full-bleed images (and great ideas; that's the hard part). It can feel like a dance, a dance between you and the images and the audience. Here are some quick images below to help you visualize how you might "present large" at a future conference, etc. Here's yet another example of combining imagery, text, animation, and audio to make an impact in a short amount of time. This 3-minute video presentation called Built to Last won first prize in The Congress for the New Urbanism video contest a few weeks ago.

If you’re telling a story to make your point, then the image can relate to that story. Tags: Powerpoint Dan Roam Dave Paradi Ellen Finkelstein evidence images metaphor Michael Alley photos pictures PowerPoint PowerPoint slide design Visual aid It’s called the Assertion-Evidence Format and it was developed by Professor Michael Alley (I’ve mentioned it previously but somehow never devoted a whole post to it). BTW, if you’ve downloaded and read my Presentation Planning Guide , you’ll see that this slide format dovetails nicely with the planning system

The chart below shows a correctly scaled trend and six ways the visual image changes by expanding or contracting the grid layout. Tags: Book Reviews Design Strategy charts data grid trend truth visual imag There are few of us who, at at one time or another, have either exaggerated or shaded the truth by either bragging or playing down a story. What we say may not be an untruth, but we want to emphasize one fact to a certain party, and a different fact to another.

Tags: photography images fun design PowerPoin What's Kitsch? Kitsch is a black velvet painting. Garden gnomes, lava lamps, troll dolls, flamingo lawn ornaments, dogs playing poker -- all are classic kitsch. Often of poor quality, kitsch is an object that appeals to lowbrow, popular, or tacky tastes.

StockExpert seems similiar to iStockPhoto when I do a search - lots of the same or similiar images. The search engine is intuitive and gives more precise results than some others - this may be because StockExpert was acquired by Jupiter Images who injected much of there meta tagging and search technology. Raster/Photo images: Yes Vector They are all good quality and the pricing is good (or looking better as sites like iStockPhoto slowly raise their rates). One new feature is the selection of videos - which will be more important with the release of PowerPoint 2010 and

My suggestion to her was to put each point on its own slide with its own image. Sometimes people panic at the image-based slide concept with one idea per slide, thinking that there will be far too many slides for their presentation. But when there's only one idea and one image per slide, the slides can flow by as slowly or as quickly as the ideas flow from your mind and mouth. I'm building a PowerPoint for a client who will be speaking at a conference this summer. She asked me in several places to put multiple points on one slide and have them "fly in" as she clicked the remote.

This often makes it very difficult to find the right image to convey the idea and will often result in a visual that seems forced. From one simple message, we have ourselves one heck of a list of words we can use to search our favorite stock photo site and/or Creative Commons library to find the image that will help us drive our point home. Tags: Slide Design concepts Design images metaphor All too often, when people are trying to do the right thing by creating a strong visual to represent an idea, they fall back on the literal meaning of the word.  This Take for example,

The recolor feature (FORMAT >> RECOLOR) can customize an image, saving a trip to Photoshop. Once the funnel image was optimized and saved from Photoshop as a .png The funnel image used the custom color recolor: For this presentation I needed to use the same content in 3 color coded sections. png with no background I was able to do the rest in PowerPoint.