Jul 20

Never stretch, crop pictures in your sales presentations

Don't stretch picture in your sales presentations

Never stretch your pictures in your sales presentations. Stretching images kills pictures impact, making them strange. Use the cropping  tools to trim and efficiently remove unwanted portions of pictures to get just the look that you want and make your documents pop.

Cropping  removes or masks areas of a picture that you do not want to be shown by reducing the vertical or horizontal edges. Cropping is often used to hide or trim a part of a picture, either for emphasis or to remove unwanted portions.

The cropping feature has been enhanced so that you can now easily crop to a specific shape, crop to fit or fill a shape, or crop to a common picture aspect ratio

How to Crop a picture

1. In your file, select the picture that you want to crop.

2. Under Picture Tools, on the Format tab, in the Size group, click Crop.

Size group on Picture Tools Format tab in PowerPoint

TIP 1:   If you do not see the Picture Tools and Format tabs, make sure that you selected a picture. You might have to double-click the picture to select it and open the Format tab.

Cropping pictures in Sales presentations

3. Do one of the following:

• To crop one side, drag the center cropping handle on that side inward.
• To crop equally on two sides at the same time, press and hold CTRL while you drag the center cropping handle on either side inward.
• To crop equally on all four sides at the same time, press and hold CTRL while you drag a corner cropping handle inward.

4. To position the crop, move either the crop area (by dragging the edges of the crop rectangle), or the picture.

5. When you are finished, press ESC.

Cropping pictures in sales presentations

TIP 2:  To crop the picture to exact dimensions, right-click the picture, and then on the shortcut menu, click Format Picture. On the Crop pane, under Picture position, enter the numbers that you want in the Width and Height boxes.

TIP 3: To outcrop or add a margin (margin: The blank space outside the printing area on a page.) around a picture drag the cropping handles away from the center of the picture.

 

See this news in French: http://presentations-de-vente.com/impact-visuel-des-presentations-de-vente-rogner-une-image

jfmessier

PowerPoint and sales: How to get the best out of the new technologies and make your presentations great. My approach to great sales presentations is based on three-pronged experience:

- 30 years of experience in and passion for sales: 16 years of B2B, retail, and pharmaceutical laboratory sales, and 14 years of consulting at Mercuri International, where I have trained some 5,000 sales representatives, as well as over 500 sales management executives.

- My experience with new technologies: As New Technologies Director for Mercuri International, I now travel to some 25 countries to implement the best that technology has to offer in terms of sales development.

- The example of the world’s best communicators:
Thanks to all those whose publications and presentations inspire me a little more each day:
- Garr Reynolds: The master of modern communication, he has influenced me the most. An American living in Japan, he is an internationally-renowned communications expert and the creator of the most popular website on presentation design, presentationzen.com. He has also authored a book of the same name, as well as several other books.
- Steve Jobs: It’s not his engineering skills that make him so indispensable for Apple … it’s his extraordinary ability to sell its products. Steve Jobs is one of the most captivating salesmen in the world.
- Nancy Duarte heads Duarte Design, one of the largest design and woman owned firms in Silicon Valley. Her client list includes the largest Fortune-500 companies, such as Adobe, Cisco, Google and Hewlett-Packard.
- Carmine Gallo is a communications coach who is passionate about the techniques Steve Jobs uses to captivate his audience.
- Phil Waknell: Philippe Waknell is the founding co-director of Paris-based Ideas on Stage, one of France’s best presentation companies. His “Phil presents” blog is a marvel of inspiration, originality and simplicity.
- Guy Kawasaki is an American born in Honolulu, Hawaii. Ex-Apple, he was one of the first directors of marketing at Apple, where his mission was to create a community of passionate users and defenders of the Apple brand.
- Seth Godin was vice president of direct marketing at Yahoo. He has written twelve books that have been translated into over 30 languages. All were best sellers. American Way Magazine calls him “America’s Greatest Marketer”.
- Olivia Mitchell is a presentation trainer based in Wellington, New Zealand. Her blog “Speaking about presenting” is a rich resource.
- Hans Rosling, a professor of international health at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, is the Zen master of presenting statistics when it comes to making sense and telling a story.
- Doctor John Medina is a molecular biologist focused on the genes involved in brain development. He is the author of several books, including the New York Times bestseller Brain Rules, which decodes how the brain processes and assimilates information.
- John Sweller is an Australian psychologist known for formulating the theory of cognitive load. He has authored over 80 scientific publications, mainly on cognitive factors, with specific emphasis on the implications of working memory limitations.

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