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Photos and Graphics are a Big Part of a PowerPoint Presentation
Let's face it. A PowerPoint presentation is a visual thing. Photos and graphics are what make them interesting to an audience. Here are some tips to make your
slides more appealing.
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Optimize Your Photos for Presentations
PowerPoint presentations filled with photos, can often monopolize the computer's resources, resulting in a sluggish presentation or even causing a crash. This is where editing your photos first, comes into play.
- Crop Pictures in PowerPoint
Cropping pictures in PowerPoint has two bonuses for your presentation.
- You get rid of extra stuff in the picture that is not necessary to make your point.
- You reduce the overall file size of your presentation.
- Compress Photos to Reduce Large File Size
The file size of PowerPoint presentations containing large photos can be dramatically reduced by compressing the pictures in the presentation.
- PowerPoint Video - Importing Media into PowerPoint
Learn how to import, adjust, and arrange media such as photos, clip art and sound in your PowerPoint presentation.
- SmartArt Overview in PowerPoint 2007
Slide shows of old contained mostly facts, usually in bullet form, and today the audience wants more than just lists of items. So, what does a presenter do? He gives them a graphic representation of those old bullet points. This is done using SmartArt, which is the new name for all the diagrams that you can create in PowerPoint.
- Create Family Tree Charts
If you would like to start tracing your family's roots, PowerPoint has the tools to make it easy to create a family tree chart of all the members in your family. You can make it as simple or as complicated as you want. Simply add more pages to extend the family tree to more generations.
- Watermarks in PowerPoint
Watermarks can be as simple as a company logo placed in a corner of the slide to brand it, or can be a large image that is used as the background for the slide. In the case of a large image, the watermark is often faded so that it does not distract the audience from the content of your slides.
- Create a Digital Photo Album in PowerPoint
It is easy to create a digital photo album in PowerPoint. An added bonus is that once completed, you can
save the presentation to use on the web as an online photo album.
- More on Digital Photo Albums
- Align Graphic Objects on Slides in PowerPoint
Using the Distribute feature makes it a "piece of cake" to align graphic objects perfectly.
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Image Maps and Hotspots
Have you ever watched a PowerPoint presentation and seen the presenter click on a portion of a graph
and presto you are taken to the slide pertaining to just that aspect of the graph? The presenter clicked on an area -- (the hotspot) -- of the graph -- (the image map), which linked to the relevant slide.
Complete Advanced PowerPoint Series
- Photos, Graphics and PowerPoint
- Enhance Your PowerPoint Presentation With Animations
- Music, Timing and Narrating Your PowerPoint Presentation
- Printing Options in PowerPoint
- Macros, Master Slides and Web Pages
- Package Your PowerPoint Presentations
