Choose images carefully and make sure they convey your message clearly. Don't choose images just because they are cute or use clipart that doesn't have a visual impact.
Recommendations from The Slide Team website:
Sin 1: Using pixelated or blurry images
Sin 2: Tiny Images
Sin 3: Overuse of visuals
Sin 4: Multiple pictures arranged poorly
Sin 5: Cliparts that add no value, except shock value
Sin 6: Watermark Images
Sin 7: Pictures with headache-inducing backgrounds
Sin 8: Amputating parts of people's bodies while cropping images
Sin 9- Badly stretched photos
Sin 10: Using irrelevant silhouettes or other images
Sin 11: Image with a thick outline
BONUS TIP 1: Characters in the image should look within the slide
BONUS TIP 2: Maintain consistency of images throughout the presentation
Bonus TIP 3: Use copyright compliant images and properly cite where you found the image and the image's creator
Images and text on this webpage are taken from Malhotra, A. (2016, Feb. 16). 11 Dos and Don'ts of Using Images in Presentations. Slide Team. Retrieved from http://www.slideteam.net/blog/using-images-in-presentations-11-dos-and-donts/
Use images that your audience will understand. Don't use any images that you don't understand.
Image is from Cornish, E. (2012) Cultural awareness. Slideshare. Retrieved from http://www.slideshare.net/martau3/cultural-awareness-13250959
Different countries have different laws about taking and using photos of one or more identifiable people. This is especially true if you plan to publish or use the photo commercially.
You need to check before you assume you can use someone's image, even if the person is in a public place.
Learn more about image rights: "Protecting the Right to Photograph, or Not to Be Photographed". The New York Times. Retrieved on 10 Sept. 2016.
Digital Media Law: Using the Name or Likeness of Another; image from Flickr.
To format an image you have placed in PPT, you can select it, click on Format < Picture, and make your selections on the dialog that will appear. You can also use the Picture toolbar to format your images.
Select View < Toolbars < Picture, or right-click on the picture and select Format Picture.
To resize an image using the "handles," hold down the left mouse button and drag any of the corner handles to keep the image proportional. There are limitations to how much you can enlarge an image without losing quality in PowerPoint.
To move an image, place your cursor in the center of the image. Hold down the left mouse key until it becomes a four-headed arrow, then drag the image to where you want it.
Information taken from UPenn Library workshop on downloading images.
