TIPS for creating great PowerPoints

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Use as much contrast as you can – colour, size, position, images and words…

Juxtapose odd things!

Let the BIG bleed off the edge of the slide, so it looks like it’s too big to be contained.

Cut the…!! After you have planned your slides, ruthlessly pare down the non-essential slides.

This is a horrible fade out, but it gets the message across 

Repetition for effect – see the iPod site!!

Get rid of all the glitzy animations and transitions – they are forgettable, and worse, distract from your msg.

Use the rule of thirds. Many photography websites offer you help.

Techniques, Tips and Tricks by Kate Fuller
CONTRAST CON TRAST
Think BIG
BIG
- The previous image was altered by changing the background colour to red by using the bucket-fill tool.
- I am disobeying my own rules here, as audiences do NOT like endless instructions and bullets
- These comments should be in the NOTES section below, so that I speak to them instead of getting you to read them, or worse still, reading them to you, which I’m probably doing and by now you are all falling asleep… zzzz
Highlight
Use ANGLES & COLOUR
Use FADEOUT to emphasis the important parts of a picture
“ I f there’s one thing I really don’t like it’s transitions in PowerPoint. Nothing says “ I’m a knob ” like some jazzy wipe from one ugly hard to read slide to another.” GoClick 10 Oct 05
Use slide sorter when you’ve finished to check the flow of your presentation and to shuffle your slides around. 