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This document provides tips for creating effective PowerPoint presentations. It discusses general strategies like making the presentation about the presenter, not just content. It recommends organizing text into manageable chunks, using photos appropriately, and guiding the audience's flow from slide to slide. Composition guidelines include using a single focal point and a double pane layout. The document also offers tips on using color effectively and limited transitions. It emphasizes starting early and comparing slides to other visually appealing examples.
Half decent powerpoint graphics
- 1. How to make half decent graphics for Powerpoint. By Colin Burrows
- 2. TODAYS TOPICS • General Strategy • Organizing Text • Photos • Composition • Colour • Transitions • Final Thoughts
- 3. Rule Number One. DON’T BE BORING.
- 5. They are designed to appeal to the broadest possible audience. They don’t have character. They don’t have YOUR character.
- 6. Make it about you. Your audience wants to see you deliver the content.
- 7. Make it about you. If all that mattered was the content you could have sent an email.
- 8. You have to make a decision: Is this a presentation or Is this a handout
- 9. You shouldn’t be printing things anyway.
- 10. NOBODY WANTS TO WATCH YOU READ Unless you’re this guy.
- 11. NOBODY WANTS TO WATCH YOU READ …or unless you wrote the Harry Potter books. …or unless you just look really good while reading.
- 13. Keep It Simple, Stupid.
- 14. * People have trouble remembering more than 7 things.
- 16. Bullet points tell people you don’t care enough to write complete sentences
- 18. for presentations for handouts A presenter can: Bullet points • Elaborate may seem cryptic • Explain outside the context • Add detail of a presentation. You’d better write something that can stand on its own.
- 19. Control the flow. Use animations
- 20. orControl multiple the flow. slides to Use slow things down animations
- 21. Its okay to use lots of slides.
- 22. Lots and lots of slides.
- 23. They’re
- 24. If you have to put a whole bunch of text on one slide then please please please take the time to organize it into manageable bits of information that people can easily digest
- 25. If you have to put a whole bunch of text on one slide then please please please take the time to organize it into manageable bits of information that people can easily digest
- 26. You can depend on Arial. There’s nothing worse than formatting your whole slide show with some cool font and having it go all screwy on you .
- 27. You can depend on Arial. There’s nothing worse than formatting your whole slide show with some cool font and having it go all screwy on you .
- 28. Using Black on White, despite your most well thought out minimalist intentions, just makes you look lazy.
- 29. Maybe try using a little colour.
- 30. And then keep changing it to keep people awake.
- 31. Photos
- 33. Re-colour busy photos so they don’t distract from your text
- 34. Pictures with white backgrounds work the best. Find a way to connect the pictures with the text
- 35. Use Large Photos
- 36. You don’t want photos that look like this. ….or like this.
- 37. Use Good Quality Free Photos * Requires you to set up an account, but its free.
- 38. You can use if you aren't profiting of your presentation. like me, I’m a student, I’m not making any money off of this. None, I swear.
- 39. 1000 words are worth more than a bad photo.
- 40. Its Half time (Let people know where you are in the presentation)
- 41. TODAYS TOPICS • General Strategy • Organizing Text • Photos We are here. • Composition • Colour • Transitions • Final Thoughts
- 42. Composition 1 Guide people through the slide. 2 3 4 Left to right. Top to bottom.
- 43. Single Focal Point - Bansky
- 44. Double Pane This space talks about that space
- 46. THE RULE
- 47. Title this text is 2/3 the size of the title.
- 49. Colour
- 50. Black & White Monochrome
- 51. Cool Colours Warm Colours
- 52. Complimentary Split Complimentary Colours Colours
- 53. Transitions are not toys. Use them when changing your dialogue from one point to another…
- 54. …or when changing the looks of your slide (they call them transitions for a reason)
- 55. Final Thoughts Give people hope. Let them know this presentation isn't going to last forever.
- 56. For Best Results Start your Powerpoint in Word then add graphics once you know what to say
- 57. Don't put movies in your Powerpoint. You aren't as interesting as a movie and you don’t want to follow that. They never really work any way.
- 58. There are no rules, just think critically
- 60. Compare how it looks against other things you think look good
- 61. try to make something your mom will understand. If your mom understands it, then it makes sense.
- 62. If you can be funny then be funny. If you cant be funny then be yourself. Unless you’re boring. (see rule number one)
- 63. Final Rule. Tie the ending to the beginning