Using Images to Hold Your Audience
There is a general rule for presentation: the audiences mostly like to see pictures rather than listen to you. It’s better if you show the related image to your topic when you’re talking. By doing so, your audience will easily grasp what is being discussed. If you simply put what you are saying in the presentation software and say exactly what you have written without showing any image to buttress your points, people won’t follow what you say.
Using images is one of the smart things to do that attracts audience. What distinguishes an interesting presentation from a boring one is using excellent visual tools such as images. However, you need to consider the following points when using images: Don’t over use images. Select images that are relevant to the topic of your presentation. An image that doesn’t convey anything is useless.
Under an image, write its title. Caption helps audience understand why the image is used. When intending to show a text, you fade other items on the page so they won’t be seen much. You need to take the same action when showing an image. For example, you can increase its size. An image highlighted by a text conveys lots of points to the audience.
The quality, resolution and size of the image must be appropriate. Leave a part of the image in the background and show the text over it, if necessary. The text over the image shouldn’t be too long as you need to keep it brief and concise. Otherwise, you may have to decrease the font too much to fit the text on the image, and the text might not be readable at all, or the text might run through several pages; both cases are not right.
Each page must be over once and for all as much as possible. So, write your text as brief as possible. Animation, Video and Audio Files To make your presentation more interesting, you can use animation, videos and audio files briefly if necessary.