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you’re feeling confident, you might even try this fun text overlapping technique.

2. Use Them as Icons
Small images with clear pictures can work well as icons. Say you’re building a presentation in
PowerPoint. The program will let you hyperlink images and other objects so that your images
effectively become clickable icons, which can take learners to another portion of the presentation, to
files on your company server, or to a page on the web. When using pictures for this purpose, keep
them small and very clear, with only one subject.

3. Build the Presentation around a Single Image
Consistency is something learners appreciate. When they have to learn tough concepts, it can work
against them to have to view many different types of images in rapid succession. Instead, you might
consider building a PowerPoint course or e-Learning program around a single image. For instance, you
can use a background image of a desk, and each new slide or section has different content and perhaps
some smaller images. But the main theme is that desk.

4. Illustrate Complex Topics
A picture is worth a thousand words, they say, and that’s true. Sometimes an image beats pages upon
pages of explanation, so use them judiciously. A diagram of a machine, a blueprint of a building or a
map of an area all do a much better job of conveying a concept than paragraphs of text.

5. Add Color
Okay, you’re thinking, can’t images just make something nicer to look at? And the answer is yes, they
can. Color- code sections of material with predominantly red images in one section, for example, and
predominantly green in another to delineate different subjects. Or just use them for eye candy.

All curricula for our Distance Learning Courses have a cover design to begin the course. We have
utilized stock photos in every one of the covers for every course at the college. Notice that we have
also colored each study to match colors found in the stock images. Adding color not only distinguishes
the studies from one another, but also adds interest. Here are examples:

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