Technique 1: The faded effect
A simple technique to add structure to your deck is to repeat your agenda slide throughout the presentation as a section divider slide. This helps both you and your audience know where you are in the presentation and where you’re going next. In a sales presentation, it also gives you an opportunity to remind your audience of your key value points. Not using your value points to structure your sales decks? Let us change your mind!
An easy way to elevate a photography-based divider portugal phone number slide is by fading back the irrelevant content to draw your audience’s eyes to the focal point of the slide.
GIF of a PowerPoint slide. There are three images with the subtitles: Expert planning, tailored support and unparalleled insights. The images are faded, each comes into focus one by one.
Here’s how:
Design your slide. (An image and a heading for each section of your presentation.)
Change the colour of the until you can just see the content underneath. 25% transparency generally works well.
Add a Fade in animation for each of the semi-transparent shapes so they build in together at the start of the slide.
For your next section divider, copy and paste the slide and move the shapes to reveal the next sections. And so on.
Technique 2: Black and white vs. colour
Once you’ve got a strong presentation structure, you can start to build out the rest of your deck. Back away from the bullet points and think about how you can tell a story with images by experimenting with colour. A super simple technique to show change is to have one image in black and white and one image in colour. Colour has many possible connotations when contrasted with a black and white image. It could signify life, futurism, vibrancy, positivity, discovery, youth, a new era… The good thing about this technique is that most presentation creation platforms have basic image-editing tools built in. You don’t have to be a whizz at photo editing!