Presentation Zen points to some good sites for finding images to use in presentations (both free and low-cost).
I'm not necessarily saying you should use PowerPoint—I don't think it's the Devil's Playground that some wonks do, and it certainly has its place in my repertoire of presentation environments. I've seen a lot of mind-numbing PowerPoint presentations, but I've also seen my share of mind-numbing talks with transparencies, with printed charts, with film strips, with video footage, and with plain old talking heads. As David Byrne (among others) has shown, you can be pretty creative and interesting in PowerPoint. Maybe PowerPoint makes it easy to be dull; I don't know. Some people have the capability to be dull no matter what medium they're working in.
But if you do use PowerPoint in your presentations, a well-designed layout and a slight hint of creativity can set you apart from the mindless drones. Besides which, most of the images at these sites can be used for things besides PowerPoint (Flash, basic Web pages, splash screens, etc.). (Be sure to check the individual site's licensing options to see what's allowed.)
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Posted by johndanseven at January 18, 2006 03:58 PM