Slides are visual aides to your speech. If you make speeches regularly or making presentations are important part of your life, you could be wondering how to make the slides more engaging or interesting.
If you are committed to having creative slides- then there is no dearth of ideas. Just look all around you. You would find inspiration just about everywhere!
Let us talk about Photos - looking at professional photos is a great source of inspiration.
Colours
If you are committed to having creative slides- then there is no dearth of ideas. Just look all around you. You would find inspiration just about everywhere!
Let us talk about Photos - looking at professional photos is a great source of inspiration.
Colours
(Sample photo)
They give you ideas about colours – what colour combinations go together. For example: the photo of a house – has green grass, and a brown house. Green and brown are good contrast colours. They are laid against the much lighter background colour of sky blue. So instead of just wondering, you know for sure that these colours go well together. You can readily use these colours as part of your presentation fonts and backgrounds.
Emotions
Green and brown in the photo also seems bright and cheerful. Look at any of the grayscale (black and white) photos. They give you a feeling of timelessness, of seriousness or convey strong emotions.
So what do you do when you want to convey emotions of seriousness? Use black and white images and grayscale slides!
You can easily use the colours in a photo also as part of drawing right emotions from your audience when you make a presentation. If you are familiar with any photo editing software- like Photoshop or even MS Paint- you can open up the photo in that software. This allows you to get the exact colour values using the eye dropper or pick colour tool.
Green and brown in the photo also seems bright and cheerful. Look at any of the grayscale (black and white) photos. They give you a feeling of timelessness, of seriousness or convey strong emotions.
So what do you do when you want to convey emotions of seriousness? Use black and white images and grayscale slides!
You can easily use the colours in a photo also as part of drawing right emotions from your audience when you make a presentation. If you are familiar with any photo editing software- like Photoshop or even MS Paint- you can open up the photo in that software. This allows you to get the exact colour values using the eye dropper or pick colour tool.
(This slide uses similar colours and placement
as the sample photo above)
Placement
What else can you learn from photo? The great thing about professional photos is that the photographer is trying to get the viewers attention. The same as you – as a presenter - are trying to do. So a photo composition – how the objects in the photo are placed can also give you some great ideas.
In most photos, the main object is rarely at the center of the photo. The photo is primarily composed of horizon or a road stretching and the key object is placed off- center to the right / left. This is because of rules in photography called Rule of 3rds and Golden triangle. Without going into details of these rules, the basic concept is this is as follows:
Amateurs normally photograph with the main object placed right in the center. This is considered ‘visually uninteresting’. An off-center placement draws your eyes towards the object as well as gives an idea of the overall environment.
For example, if you see a photo of a man running, the man would be placed off-center to the right. This gives space for him to run towards the left. If there was no space for him to run to, a person viewing the photo may may feel uneasy, while not being able to correctly pinpoint the problem.
This concept can be used in 2 ways. The first is when editing photos to add to your presentation. The second is when you want to make your presentation layout more interesting. Instead of placing a picture right in the middle you can place it off-center.
In most photos, the main object is rarely at the center of the photo. The photo is primarily composed of horizon or a road stretching and the key object is placed off- center to the right / left. This is because of rules in photography called Rule of 3rds and Golden triangle. Without going into details of these rules, the basic concept is this is as follows:
Amateurs normally photograph with the main object placed right in the center. This is considered ‘visually uninteresting’. An off-center placement draws your eyes towards the object as well as gives an idea of the overall environment.
For example, if you see a photo of a man running, the man would be placed off-center to the right. This gives space for him to run towards the left. If there was no space for him to run to, a person viewing the photo may may feel uneasy, while not being able to correctly pinpoint the problem.
This concept can be used in 2 ways. The first is when editing photos to add to your presentation. The second is when you want to make your presentation layout more interesting. Instead of placing a picture right in the middle you can place it off-center.
Check the example of a photo colour and composition used in a slide above.
These are some ideas we can draw from the colourful world of photography. There are more areas for inspiration like advertisements, movies, product packaging, and web sites. Any such ‘artistic’ effort which tries to catch audience attention and leave behind an impression on its audience can give you creative inputs for your slides. So look around you- inspiration is everywhere
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