Presentationzen talking about samples, visuals, images, and text
Keep in mind differentiating yourself from other presenters is what makes you, well you. Learning different ideas and options can expand your horizons and will help with your overall presentation.
Take for example the Takashshi method - it uses only slides but with really big text and very short words. It was Mr. Masayoshi Takahashi who is a native of the Japanese culture, who incorrporated this style. Now a very popular, but a unique way to presenting.The characters used are large and bold styles, which easily catch the audience's attention and more importantly can read and understand with simplicity!
On the website Presentationzen there was a post from August 4 2009 talking about the “11 way to use images poorly in slides. “
We all have tried and failed at one point or another, but using tips that can avoid a failure will be most beneficial to all.
Let’s start with photos that are not appropriate for “every kind of talk” (Garr. R) You can’t fit every great picture in just because. There must be a good fit and application for the image or visual.
1. For starters make sure your image is NOT too small, making it hard for the audience to see.
2. Next stay away from placing the image randomly on the slide (Can make the text look out of place)
3. If the image is almost full screen – good chance it will look like a poor effect. (fill the screen for a better look)
4. Image of a poor quality or too low of a megapixel (can happen by taking a website picture and stretching it. Just be sure the quality is on point.
5. Image of poor quality and has watermark (Don’t be too cheap or lazy) sloppy or poor quality may end up making you look bad.
6. Avoid clip art this can be a cheesy look- just do me a favor and stay away from this!
7. Keep away from images that have nothing to do with the content.
8. When the text is hard to see, crop the picture to alter where the text portion will go and make the letter legible.
I took only the most important tips from this post, there are many more tips available but you get the just of this. The idea is to make sure what goes on that screen that you have it in the best position, style, and condition possible. See below as I took the example from the presentation zen on 8/4/2009 post showing how changing and altering small things makes a big difference dont be scared to change and play around with the look, style and text.(Photos were taken from istockphoto) Can you see how the photo on the right gives it a more defined look?
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