How many times have you seen images like these? Images are an important part of online courses. The trick is that the images we use must enhance the instructional qualities of the content. The images must also look professional and give the learner confidence that the material is accurate. The images above do not look professional and certainly do not give me a feeling that I can trust the course content. So what types of images could we use? Make sure that you use a high enough quality setting so that you can have full screen images that look crisp. MORE >>

One of my friends in the wildlife photography circle is very strict about the copyright notices on his images. lot of his images have descriptions such as, "Copyrighted by. take it as granted that writing, photography and music are art forms. Trey travels the world and makes his best photography freely available on the web. I'm pretty sure Trey makes a lot of money too, and that's because of the word of mouth his photography gets - 175,000 views a day ! Openness helps people around us I love wildlife photography. No doubt about that. MORE >>

I'll argue that when you start your presentation design at the computer, you're context switching between slide layouts, searching for images, dealing with hang ups AND thinking through your story. decade old, cheesy, overused clipart makes you look as if you were too lazy to click a photograph or search for a 'meaningful' image from the internet. must say however, that I prefer to snag my own photos and I often use stock photography for my presentations. Of course there are many ways to use images poorly in presentations , and you need to avoid those! Never! MORE >>

Treat the type as image, as though it's just as important : Type is visual material that needs to relate compositionally to everything else included in the design. Create images - don't scavenge : Nothing is more banal or meaningless than a commonly-used instance of stock photography that shows up everywhere. I love crossing into related disciplines and exploring the received wisdom. I'm obviously not a professional graphic designer but I am an enthusiastic amateur and keen to improve. Use two typeface families maximum.OK,maybe Use the one-two punch! Be decisive. MORE >>

It's never too late to reach back to the natural, visual thinker amongst us and think of expressing ideas with simple images. Add a relevant image and recall jumps to 65%. Stock photography and cheap digital cameras make the availability of high quality imagery a breeze. You're thinking of the kind of image you want, and then you go to search it and then you decide it needs modifications and then you get sucked in and at the same time you're thinking about the order of your slides -- you get the idea, don't you? Simplicity however, doesn't need decoration. MORE >>