{"id":390,"date":"2009-07-21T21:26:29","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T20:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elementally.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/?p=390"},"modified":"2009-07-21T21:26:29","modified_gmt":"2009-07-21T20:26:29","slug":"getting-the-right-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/getting-the-right-image\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting the right image"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a fan of visual slides if you&#8217;re going to use PowerPoint (or Keynote or any of the other alternative slide-ware packages). There <em>are<\/em> times when bullet-points are the way to go, of course, but not many. And not as many as people seem to think!<\/p>\n<p>The idea of avoiding the boring bullet-point-riddled slide seems to be catching on a bit, but there are a few mistakes that I&#8217;ve noticed people making in the presentations I&#8217;ve sat through recently. The most common mistake seems to be the idea that adding a gratuitous picture to the side of the bullet points somehow stops it being a bullet-point slide.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t \u00e2\u20ac\u201c it just makes it a bullet-point slide with a picture.<\/p>\n<p>To add insult to injury, of course, you could make the picture <strong>nasty and common clip-art<\/strong>. That just makes it look even more like a token gesture. Or perhaps you find a semi-relevant picture, but the background is the wrong colour for the slide \u00e2\u20ac\u201c just putting it onto the slide does nothing more than make the picture stand out like a sore thumb even more, showing up that you&#8217;ve not taken the five minutes you needed to take the background out or change your slide.<\/p>\n<p>Please \u00e2\u20ac\u201c you know who you are! If you&#8217;ve got a graphic on your slide, make it a graphic slide, not a bullet-point slide with a graphic.<\/p>\n<p>Or I may just have to shoot you with one of your own bullet-points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a fan of visual slides if you&#8217;re going to use PowerPoint (or Keynote or any of the other alternative slide-ware packages). There are times when bullet-points are the way to go, of course, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-powerpoint-and-other-packages","category-presentation-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}