So, before we go through Creativity. Let’s ask ourselves — What is Creativity? And How you can be Creative?

Although you find the questions as individuals, but the answers for them are interlinked i.e If you know the term Creativity — you know how you to be creative, and If you know how to be creative — you know what is creativity.

Well!  I am not speaking about the creativity that’s in arts or photographs but I am trying to detail this in Presentation medium.

Creativity is not just artwork but its an ideology based bundle, where you implement your ideas in a way that your audience can understand, can store in their brains and as a result be convinced.

We all the know the fact that, a presentation can be created in couple of minutes if you have content ready to apply. But here is the fact that gets missed out while creating the presentation. And that is “the information you have created or collected is from your end and its what your brain thinks as appropriate to present” but what about the receptive brains that are present in the hall? Can their brain receive your thinking as the same you do? The outcome of this question is the result of being creative.

For instance see the figure below, it contains a plain slide that has some text.

Now see the slide below that has the same information like above but its visually enriched using some creativity.

So, being creative is using the most of your knowledge that you’ve learned or explored. And applying it to the slides that doesn’t over contain with textual  stuff but details every object in a way that your audience can understand along with the flow of your vocal and save the information as detailed and as con-vincible.

The other fact is that every human brain is different and every brain thinks based on its past. And you may confuse yourself of where to start and where to end, but if you learn about the  illusions that every brain encounters that are similar!  Then you’ve received a magic spell that can make your presentation really go well. The illusions I am talking about are the colors.

Color defines life — 99% of the data that your brain receives is by the retinal information and mostly depended on the colors it sees. But are you aware of the fact that “most of the colors we use on the slides are misidentified by many audiences”. Because their brains fail to judge them, and instead they search for options by considering the things around.

So, at this point of time you need to have the minimum amount of knowledge on colors that are same to every human eye at every environment — no matter whether in dark or light. And if you use that decent colors on your slides! You’ve already received your first impression and attention from your audience. The following video is from TED  which I think as an helpful resource to make you this concept crystal clear.

In my next article I’ll be showing you the colors that look same to human eye.

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So, what actually is a better visual mean?

Better visual is nothing but a supporting media information that is related to the topic that you are about to present. Lets take Global Warming for example, what does your brain retrieve when you’ve read the phrase Global Warming? Well! I am not sure about your end. But my brain retrieved this information that you can see below:

This is a snapshot from the movie Day After Tomorrow, and it has the concept of Global Warming that causes melting of polar ice caps, and this concept was stored visually in my mind that was easy to extract when needed. So as you can see your brain can retrieve any data faster if it has better visuals related to that particular information. I don’t say that a human brain depends completely on visuals but most of the information that is stored in it, does.

So, keeping these facts in your mind, you have to use colors or pictures or media that add visual support to your presentations’ concept.

And also you must have good knowledge on colors, if not try getting some knowledge by  reading color theory etc. The reason why I suggest this is, when you learn about colors! You’ll know what color suits your theme, because every color does represent something.

And by getting good knowledge on colors, you’ll avoid the common but serious mistakes that most of the presenters do on their slides which includes usage of bright colors such as red which do cause irritation to the human eye and also some colors which cannot be identified by people who are color blind.

I hope this information gives you some knowledge regarding how to choose best color or pictures for a presentation. In my next article I’ll try to explore some eye friendly colors that you can use in a presentation.

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