Presentation
Graphics
What is Presentation Graphics?
• A programs that combine a variety of visual objects to
create attractive, visually interesting presentations.
• Excellent tools to communicate a message and to
persuade people.
• Presentation graphics create interesting and professional
presentations.
• Example:
▫ Marketing managers use presentation graphics to
present proposed marketing strategies to their
superiors.
▫ Sales people use these programs to demonstrate
products and encourage customers to make purchases.
▫ Students use presentation graphics programs to create
high-quality class presentations.
What are Presentation Graphics
Used for?
• In academic writing, graphics are designed to
complement and boost up the main text in order
to increase the reader’s understanding.
• They are not used to make a paper look more
interesting or pleasing.
• Graphics are commonly used to summaries data
and present information that is otherwise
difficult to express with words.
What makes a Good
Presentation Graphic?
• A good graphic generally:
Draws your attention to the data or information it
contains, and not its colors or other artistic
features.
Gives readers the greatest number of ideas in the
shortest amount of time.
Presents the greatest amount of data and/or
information using the smallest amount of space.
Presentation Graphics Application Features
SLIDES
• Designed for making slides.
• An electronic presentation consists of a series of
slides.
• Slides are presented in the layout view, which a
miniature of each slide is displayed.
• Other views include the normal view, which is used
to create individual slides.
• Slide show view, used to present the slides.
• The slides can be presented in a variety of ways
called presentation styles.
• These styles include onscreen presentations, Web
presentations, overhead slides, and 35mm slides.
Presentation Graphics Application Features
SLIDES DESIGN
• Gives users an easier way to discover their
design options.
• User can choose among a selection of design
templates.
• Design templates contain color schemes, slide
and title masters with custom formatting, and
styled fonts, all designed to create a particular
look.
Presentation Graphics Application Features
ANIMATION EFFECTS
• Animation Schemes give users one-click access to
professionally designed animations.
• It is possible to control how and when text, graphics,
and other objects appear on the presentation slides
after a certain amount of time or when a presenter
presses a button.
• Animation can aid in focusing attention during a
presentation and make the slide show more
interesting.
• Users can easily get a preview of each animation
scheme and can try through various options until
they find the animation they want.
Presentation Graphics Application Features
SLIDE MASTER
• Allows the style (font, font size, background etc)
to be set once and then used throughout the
presentation.
Presentation Graphics Application Features
TRANSITIONS
• How the presentation software “moves” the
display of one slide to another.
• Usually include dissolving from one slide to the
next or the current slide being moved in some
way to show the next slide as though it was
underneath.
Presentation Graphics Application Features
LINKS
• Links can be easily added to other slides within
the presentation (thus allowing easy navigation
through the presentation slides), to other files,
or to web pages (thus allowing access to other
files and the web within the presentation).
Presentation Graphics Application Features
SLIDE NOTES
• When these are used the presenter will see the
current slide and any notes associated with it on
presenter display and the audience will see just
the slide on another screen or from a projector.
Presentation Graphics Application Features
MULTIMEDIA
• Sounds/videos can be inserted as an integral
part of a slide show as an object.
• This is the most convenient method, but can
make the file size very large - a minute of
recorded sound can require up to 10MB of disk
capacity. A solution could be to save the whole
file into a CD or other large memory storage
media.
Presentation Graphics Application Features
RECORDING A VOICE NARRATION OR SOUND IN
A SLIDE SHOW
• Narration can be added to a one or more slides.
• Users might want to add narration in the
following cases:
▫ A Web-based presentation.
▫ For archiving a meeting so that presenters can
review it later and hear comments made during
the presentation.
▫ For individuals who can't attend a presentation.
▫ For self-running slide shows.
Presentation Graphics Application Features
CREATING CHARTS, TABLES AND
ORGANIZATIONAL CHARTS
• Charts and tables are usually created with
spreadsheets.
• can then be easily inserted into the presentation
graphics software using the Copy and Paste
commands.
• simple charts and tables can be directly created
in the presentation graphics software (it will take
on the colors and format of the current slide
design).
SUMMARY
• Most presentation software packages allowing creating
multimedia product using a series of slides.
• Text, images, video, animations, links and sound can be
combined on each slide to create a sophisticated final
product.
• ADVANTAGES:
Quick and easy to master basic features and easy to
organized.
Simple bullet points will remind the speaker of main points
and the organization of the message.
Easy to create a colorful, attractive design
Easy to modify
Easily re-order presentation with a simple drag and drop or
using key strokes.
integrated with other products that allow to include parts of
documents, spread sheets, and graphics.