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Discover some creative ways to use clip art in your presentations. Go through these useful ideas to make your business presentations more effective.The usual way to use Clipart in PowerPoint:
Clipart is much abused in business presentations. The reason is – most presenters use these images without applying much creativity or imagination. For example, take a look at the following slide:Take a look at the following diagram template:
Build your content around the clipart
Take a look at the following diagram template of a summary slide:Source: CEO Pack 2: e-Learning templates
Here the image of a hand is used as memory hook. Each finger represents a certain point discussed in the presentation. The slide is quite useful in training related presentations, where the trainer can carry the theme forward by asking the participants to recount the five points discussed. An example of using this Graphic: We’ve seen a trainer take the idea to the next level. She created a five letter acronym for the 5 key points of her course. She made the participants to pull out their pen and write a letter on each of their fingers. Later she kept revising the points using the fingers as memory hook. By the time the letters were washed out from the fingers, the acronym and the 5 points got etched permanently in the minds of the participants.Build icons around the images
Take a look at the following clipart in PowerPoint of shopping baskets:Source: PowerPoint Graphics CEO Pack 2 : Marketing Concepts
It is not easy to get readymade clipart of shopping baskets that carry exactly the things you want inside the basket. So, we created the following shell of shopping basket using PowerPoint:Use Clipart as a metaphor
You don’t always have to search for the right clipart that illustrates the point you want to convey. You can be creative in using a totally unexpected clipart to work as a metaphor. For example take a look at the following template:Use the Picture as a part of the overall message
Take a look at the following diagram template:Source: PowerPoint CEO Pack 2: Keys related Concepts
We took the clipart of a shopping bag. Then we placed a keyhole on the bag. We then created a couple of keys PowerPoint and placed them next to the bag to convey a presentation concept of key to solution.More examples of using images creatively:
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