4 Tips to Create More Effective Slideshows

Slideshows can be very effective at grabbing the attention of the audience and holding it — which is why it is so often used for business presentations. Regardless of whether you want to create a business presentation or even a slideshow of some personal photos however, the right mix of elements can help to make your slideshow far more effective.

In particular, you should start with these simple tips:

• Take full advantage of the visual elements to put your points across

Often people make the mistake of using the visual elements of slideshows as mere ‘window dressing’. While it is certainly possible to do that, a far more effective approach is to use the visual elements of your slideshow as part of the points that you’re putting across. By using illustrations, charts, graphs, and even some intelligently created designs — you could ‘show’ the points that you’re making.

• Establish consistent design themes throughout your slideshow

While there is no harm in being creative, your slideshow should have some consistent design themes to be most effective. Start with the basic elements such as the background, font, and borders — and later think about the orientation, visual hierarchy, and other factors.

• One slide for one point

A good basic rule for slideshows is the ‘one slide for one point’ rule. In short you should structure your slideshow in the form of several overarching points, and use one slide for each point that you’re putting across. The benefit of using this rule is it will ensure you don’t overcrowd each slide and dilute its overall message and effectiveness in the process.

• Bigger is better — mostly

In most slideshows it is always better to go big — in terms of your font size, images, and pretty much any other visually significant elements. At the end of the day each slide should attempt to make a bang and grab the audience’s attention, so big-sized elements that stand out are definitely called for.

While there are many ways to create slideshows, if you would like an easy method that can still help you to create some impressive-looking presentations — you should try Movavi Slideshow Maker. It has a simplified ‘Easy mode’ that you can use to quickly create some nice little slideshows, or a more comprehensive ‘Full feature mode’ that you can use if you want to tinker and customize every aspect of your slideshows.

Make no mistake Movavi Slideshow Maker will supply you with a comprehensive range of features to create any type of slideshow. After you add the images or videos that you want to use you can apply filters, add audio tracks, insert captions, enhance their quality, include animated transitions and much more.

On your part it will just take a bit of creativity as well as the tips outlined above to create a great-looking slideshow. In fact you should give Movavi Slideshow Maker a try right now to see how easy it is to create a slideshow from scratch, and how quickly it can get the job done.

Originally published at SocialUnderground.