A Touch for Eyes How to Use Visual Effects to Support Your Presentation A PowerPoint Training Material
A Touch for Eyes How to Use Visual Effects to Support Your Presentation A PowerPoint Training Material
Course Objectives-Preface Before the course, I want to stress on two things: First, Im not an artist, so I don't teach you aesthetics; Second, Im not an advertisement designer, so I don't teach you drawing fancy pictures, and, as a consultant instead, I strongly oppose to present super-fancy slides to clients because it will distract their attention on the contents. All what I teach are skills, rules, processes, etc, which help you to effectively and accurately communicate ideas After the course, you will be able to Draw the PowerPoint slides more efficiently Produce meaningful, impressive and communicable presentations
Report Name Page 2 Course Objectives - Preface Before the course, I want to stress on two things : First, I’m not an artist, so I don’t teach you aesthetics; Second, I’m not an advertisement designer, so I don’t teach you drawing fancy pictures, and, as a consultant instead, I strongly oppose to present super-fancy slides to clients because it will distract their attention on the contents. All what I teach are skills, rules, processes, etc., which help you to effectively and accurately communicate ideas. After the course, you will be able to: Draw the PowerPoint slides more efficiently Produce meaningful, impressive and communicable presentations
Basic Concepts
Basic Concepts
The“ Common Senses The sense of efficiency The sense of space The sense of process
Report Name Page 4 The “Common Senses” The sense of efficiency The sense of space The sense of process
The slide drawing could be divided into many small actions, and efficiency comes out of each action The sense of efficiency How long does it take to copy an object? The prototy pe and the new one must be aligned Method 1 Method 2 Select the Move the copied Select the align Select the, Hold the shift and Ctrl Object opy one away from the command in button and at the Paste Button ongin one Draw menu same time move the object to desired place Estimated time for completion :16 seconds Estimated time for completion: 2 seconds Can you tell the difference?-14 seconds. Ah! Just 14 seconds, it doesn't matter. But when added together, it does matter: Copy is a very common type of action in slide drawing usually we will expect 20 or above such actions happening in one slide of medium complexity. So 14 seconds'difference means 280 seconds in one slide and 28000 seconds in a 100-page report, i. e near 8 hours. and this is just one type of many actions
Report Name Page 5 The slide drawing could be divided into many small actions, and efficiency comes out of each action The sense of efficiency The sense of efficiency How long does it take to copy an object? The prototype and the new one must be aligned. Method 1 Method 2 Select the Object Press the Copy & the Paste Button Move the copied one away from the origin one Select the align command in Draw Menu Select the Object Hold the Shift and Ctrl button, and at the same time move the object to desired place Estimated time for completion: 16 seconds Estimated time for completion: 2 seconds Can you tell the difference? - 14 seconds. Ah! Just 14 seconds, it doesn’t matter. But when added together, it does matter: Copy is a very common type of action in slide drawing, usually we will expect 20 or above such actions happening in one slide of medium complexity. So 14 seconds’ difference means 280 seconds in one slide and 28000 seconds in a 100-page report, i.e. near 8 hours. And this is just one type of many actions