It’s never easy to create attractive and concise presentations. Often we want to overload our different slides, multiply the data on the same slide, put lots of beautiful colors. Unfortunately, it quickly gets very messy and we easily lose the attention of our audience.

We generally don’t want to spend a lot to make our presentations harmonious, which can be damaging in the end…

Despite the fact that I’m a graphic designer and, in general, I’m able to make things more aesthetic and clearer, I wanted to share with you accessible, free tools that I use every day.

It’s kind of my secret toolbox that helps me save a lot of time without losing quality work.

So here’s my shortlist of free tools for creating spectacular presentations:

Free Google Slides and PowerPoint templates

It’s a free site with a huge collection of infographics, diagrams, maps, and more. What’s interesting about this site is that it gets to the point, no need to download 1000 slides for a single graphic that interests you. A simple search and several graphic options are offered… In addition, all slides are available in standard and widescreen format for PowerPoint as well as Google Slides. This is a must to put in your favorites.

Showeet

So this site offers fewer graphics but rather turnkey presentations with, each time, several slides of the same style to help you make your presentation as homogeneous and coherent as possible. It really is a premium quality site but completely free (which is impressive). These are themed packages, more for a professional audience and so easy to modify.

SlidesGo

Again, a very nice site that brings together great presentations for just about any topic. Maybe a little more cartoonish than other sites, but the slides are super clean, so worth a try.

What sometimes blocks us from using these kinds of free sites is that the templates are difficult to modify, but with these sites, there are no more excuses, you can adjust everything as you want. By the way, if you don’t like the established colors, here is one last little link that will guide and inspire you: 

Adobe Color

A site that brings together all the most trendy color palettes of the moment… or not.

Today’s software is more and more efficient in terms of transition animation, but personally I find that this addition complicates the way of presenting things and considerably lengthens the presentation time, unless you don’t put very much. In short, the time spent setting up the animations is much longer than the added value on your final presentation. Also, often presentations made in front of an audience are made available on various platforms after so that we can review/study them, so be concise (that remains my point of view).

A picture is worth a thousand words … I’d rather say a GOOD picture is worth a thousand words. Indeed, varying your text with images that say it all is a very important aspect. And it will help your audience not to drop out.

The subject of the choice of the image is still very wide … Who has never gone to Google’s image search engine to choose the “perfect” image (not to say free)? But is it really legal? Is this image copyright free? Not sure, and if in doubt don’t take this unnecessary risk … Today there are several sites offering photos and images with professional quality and completely free, without being required to add a copyright. It’s the icing on the cake … You will undoubtedly stand out with these tools:

Unsplash

For me, this is the best site for choosing your images. An impressive collection that will seduce you and wallow your audience.

Pixabay

A site that really brings together all styles of images. The difference with Unsplash is that this site also offers vector images and already cropped PNGs to save a lot of time. There is something for everyone, but by looking well you always find what you are looking for.

So these are my essential tools to perfect your presentation.
So did you like these suggestions?