Here’s an example from one of our Prezi Awards winners this year: Prezi users can easily design their presentation within negative spaces by placing topics or stacks of content in them, and navigate to each area as needed. If slides aren’t your cup of tea, or you’re simply in the mood to try something new, Prezi’s layered canvas might be the right change of pace. Consider spicing up a sparse area with text, shapes, icons, logos, etc. It’s easy to discount empty areas in photos, but when it comes to your background, negative space can be incredibly useful. Using negative space in presentation backgrounds The metaphor can be communicated fairly quickly, and the road provides an actual line for your content.
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If your presentation is about a type of journey (whether that’s actual travel, the process of achieving something in your professional life, or something in between), this road forward image is a great option.
Text or topics can be placed anywhere around the central image, and presenters have the option to use techniques like conversational presenting to share their message. This coffee mug is a nice choice for presenters who don’t want to deliver their content in a specific order. We like this photo of a lone figure in nature because the ice creates a natural direction for content and there’s plenty of room for placement. Keeping your text or topics along the line can also help prevent you from placing content over subjects within a background image (a common mistake that can make your visuals difficult to digest). If you have a hidden line in a photo, you can structure your content so that it follows a particular flow. Using lines and curves in backgrounds to structure your presentation You can find all of the examples below within the Prezi platform. Below, we’ve put together a collection of some of our favorite backgrounds to use in Prezi presentations and a description of why they work. It simply requires thinking a bit deeper about your choice, and keeping a couple of tricks in mind. The process is certainly delicate, but not impossible. A strong contrast can help make a bold statement, but text can easily get lost if the contrast is too high. Meanwhile, a colorful background can provide the foundation for a balanced palette, but one color too many and you’ve got a chaotic mess.
For example, a simple design can elevate the look of your content, but too simple and it can appear unpolished. The background of your presentation sets the stage for the rest of the look and feel, so it’s important to choose wisely.