7 Tips - How to create an attractive interactive presentation in Power Point or similar program. 

Tuesday, June 21, 2011 at 9:09PM
Natalia Rodriguez in Branding, Branding Tips, Corporate Etiquette, Corporate Image, Marketing & Design Tips, Power Point Presentations, Tips

Almost everyone needs to create a Power Point or similarly interactive presentation at one time or another. While a professional design that strengthens the branding of your company is a great way to accomplish a dynamic and great looking presentation, here are some tips that can be applied to presentations created in-house to make non-designers look very good: 

1. Use a template: this will help all your slides and pages look similar and part of the same presentation.
2. Limit the use of colors: use your corporate colors and maybe a couple of highlight colors, but no more than 3-4 colors throughout the presentation.
3. Limit the use of fonts: select a couple of good working fonts, a bold one for headlines and a lighter one for text and stick with those. 
4. Limit the use of font sizes: Select a size for headlines and a size for text and don’t alter sizes throughout the presentation to “fill space”. Consistency is the key to looking professional.
5. Resist the urge to try all the special effects: an elegant presentation uses a transition between slides and another for animated images or text, but be consistent with the effects. If you try them all, your presentation may start to look like an amateur wedding video. So unless you have a specifically cool reason to do it, exercise some "animation control".
6. Do not distort images or logos: If you enlarge or reduce the size of an image, be sure to do so proportionally. Squeezing an element horizontally or vertically to fill a space only creates a strange-looking and generally unattractive graphic. Never ever distort your logo.
7. If possible, invest in having a custom template created for your company, over which you can build your future presentations with ease and style.

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Article originally appeared on Fort Lauderdale creative graphic design studio and professional freelance graphic designer (http://www.studiorod.com/).