To create a presentation with real wow factor, it’s essential to use high-quality, striking imagery to give valuable meaning to your content. If you want to grab your audience’s attention and really impress them with each slide, you’ll need to step up from static text and predictable stock images.
Build your presentation based on eye-catching visuals, to create a digital story for far better audience engagement. In fact, it has already been proven that 90% of information that comes to the brain is visual, where approximately 65% of people are visual learners.
It can be very time consuming finding the right pictures to use in your presentations, that are not only high-quality and relevant, but also available for commercial use, at absolutely no cost. (Note: always check if attribution is required before using any photo in your presentation).
But don’t worry, we’ve done the hard work for you. Here is a list of our top 5 places you can find eye-catching (and free) pictures for your next presentation:
1. Free for commercial use
This site is ideal for beautiful, high-resolution imagery to add style to your next presentation. “Stunning lifestyle imagery for modern creatives. FREE authentic unstock/non-stock images for your next commercial or personal project. Download FREE hi-res 300dpi photos and do whatever you want.”
2. Unsplash
Unsplash is a superb creative community hub for thousands of high-resolution photographs, all displayed in a simple design with an emphasis on beautiful, minimalist imagery. The site’s support on creativity has continuously grown since it began 3 years ago, now reaching 1 billion photo views per month. Search from a wide range of topics, particularly nature, food, people and business.
3. Pixabay
From photos, illustrations, vector graphics to videos, pixabay has a huge selection of images to select for your next business or personal presentation. “All images and videos on Pixabay are released free of copyrights under Creative Commons CC0. You may download, modify, distribute, and use them royalty free for anything you like, even in commercial applications. Attribution is not required.”
4. Freepik
Freepik is a useful site with a great variety of free vector art, illustrations, icons, PSD and photos entirely for free, such as this lightbulb image (background photograph designed by Jannoon028 – Freepik.com). Note that some photos require you to give credit to the author in order to download the image for free.
5. Pexels
This is one of the largest free image sites, where you can quickly browse through hundreds of stunning, high-quality photos, all completely free. You can even search by the photographer’s name, ranked in order by the most downloaded photos.
Need some presentation design inspiration? Take a look at our top 5 examples of beautiful presentation design for a few helpful tips before you begin.
Using a presentation tool like Presenter will allow you to easily insert relevant images to each company branded slide, whether an image gallery, full screen or half-screen image.
You’ll be able to enter accompanying text if necessary, and rest assured each slide will be formatted perfectly by default. You can also re-use important slides by easily inserting them into any other presentation, saving you valuable time.
To truly bring your presentation to life, step up your slides with interactive, dynamic content too.
To find out how we can help bring your next presentation to life, visit www.companyapp.co.uk/presenter, or contact us via email info@companyapp.co.uk.
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