11 Tips for Better Slides: Combining Text and Image

How do you create presentation slides that keep the audience captivated while helping you focus on the key points of your presentation?

While tips on how to create better PowerPoint slides abound, they tend to repeat the same set of vague instructions:

• cut down your written content to one point per slide
• create consistency by using the same sans serif fonts and colours throughout
• use high-quality images
• size text for viewing at a distance
• limit the use of colours to ones that create contrast and emphasis

These, while useful, don’t address many of the roadblocks of designing with both text and images—a task that can be challenging even to the pros. The result: slide presentations continue to frustrate (suck) on both the making and the viewing ends.

Beautiful content (textual and graphical), put together in a way that doesn’t distract from either, but showcases both is what differentiates good slides from terrible ones. No matter what software you’re using, these 11 tips will help you combine text and images to create slides that are visually-striking and functional.

First, let’s review 2 core principles:

1. You are your presentation. Slides are for your audience, but they aren’t your presentation. Good presentations are about personality (yours), great content (that’s you…