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Free resources to enhance your presentation
You don’t need to be rich to create and impactful presentations. Money should not stand in between you and your goals. Frankly speaking, every body loves free stuff — I certainly do. I learned from years of building and designing presentations that I need visuals to build a complete deck. Luckily for us, there are plenty of free resources to pick and choose from to help us build better presentations.
Here are some tips and free resources to start creating your next remarkable presentation:
Free Images
Unsplash has become one of the biggest free-image sites in the world. Chances are Unsplash will always have the right high-resolution images that you’re looking for that fits your topic.
Nothing can bring your presentation to life more than visuals. I use them in my online content all the time. They are key to an impactful, engaging and unforgettable presentations. If you’re looking for high-quality images, say hellp to Unsplash. You can find more tips on how to manipulate images in your presentation here.
Free Icons
Instead of filling your slides with text and bullet points, try some creative placement of icons in your presentation. The Noun Project is one of the most successful community-based websites that provides an almost infinite resource of icons. I find the icons very useful in visualizing content and substituting text with visuals. Read this article to learn how to replace bullet points and text with icons here.
Color Inspiration
Colour is one of the most underrated pre-attentive attributes in presentations. People usually stick to the brand colours — which is totally understandable — or even worse, one of the default PowerPoint or Prezi colours. They never incorporate other colours to emphasize or highlight certain elements in their content. It is true that some colours work best together and that is very useful for achieving harmony.
I find Adobe Color very inspiring in picking colour palette and finding colours that go with the brand colour that I am working with. You can pick preferred colours, find trending colours or extract colours from photos. It is one of my favourite tools especially because non-designers can use it too. Read more about the colour wheel and theory in this article. P.S.: This might save your presentation.
“Steal Like an Artist”
I learned a very important lesson by reading Austin Kleon’s book, Steal Like an Artist — “Don’t just steal the style, steal the thinking behind the style. You don’t want to look like your heroes, you want to see like your heroes.”
Imitating the experts in your domain is not stealing; it’s building on top of their knowledge and expertise by discovering the way they think and doing it your own way. It’s hard for us sometimes to find inspiration or come up with ideas for our presentations.
Looking for inspiration? Go to one of the presentation libraries that are free for viewers where people share ideas and designs. Slideshare offers presentations on virtually any topic you could think of. You may not be able to take the slide presented and copy it into your presentation, but you can think of the pieces that built that slide and make use of it in your own.
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