Websites That Help You Use Images in Presentations and Websites

This is an excellent round up of 53 free image sources posted in May 2014 on buffersocial by Courtney Seiter Most of these sights are sampler sites for professional (for pay) images sites such as iStock so, as always,k be careful where your clicks lead you.

https://blog.bufferapp.com/free-image-sources-list

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One of the presentations I had during class was 10 Tips for making Beautiful Slideshow Presentations by Edahn Small on slideshare.

You can view the entire presentation from the link, but here are the images sites he recommended, updated to November of 2014. These sites mix free and for sale images, so read the licenses and the explanations with care.

http://freeimages.com 

http://www.morguefile.com

http://www.everystockphoto.com

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I make my photos available on flickr.com which is part of yahoo. We used the creative commons option at the bottom of the advanced search page to search for images that can be used in presentations.

Some of the sites above include flickr in their searches as well.

Update on Thursday, December 11, 2014 at 10:44AM by Christy Ramsey

Google has made its image search more useful by adding a License filter to its search tools. 

After entering search terms and choosing Images, click on the Search Tools button to allow filtering by Size, color, type of image, and license. The clip above has Photo for image and Reuse with mofication selected for type of image and license. 

Websites That Help You Use COLOR Well in Presentations and Websites

COLOURlovers is a creative community where people from around the world create and share colors, palettes and patterns, discuss the latest trends and explore colorful articles… All in the spirit of love. - from the website

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Adobe Color CC makes it easy to capture inspiring color combinations wherever you see them. Simply point the iPhone camera at something colorful and Adobe Color will instantly extract a series of colors. - from the website

You can also use this website to pick a color pallette without a reference image or color.

(Formerly named, “KulerAdobe”.)

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Now at paletton.com, the Color Scheme Designer application generates color schemes of several types. Every scheme is based on one (base) color, which is supplemented with additional colors making together the best visual impression — using one of the genuine algorithms. - from the website

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Color Hunter is a place to find and make color palettes created from images. To find color palettes on Color Hunter, enter a search term in the box at the top of the page. You can search by tag or hex color code or image URL. If you have an image, you can upload it and get a color palette based on the colors in the image. - from the website

 - all images and descriptions are taken from the respective websites in mid-November 2014

- website selections updated from 10 Tips for making Beautiful Slideshow Presentations
by Edahn Small on slideshare

10 Reasons To Use PDF files instead of Word files

Ever get a poster, announcement, or handout in Word format that wouldn’t print right? If the person sent the information in PDF (Portable Document Format) you could print with confidence from any computer on any printer. PDF was designed to make printing easy regardless of the varieties of computer and printer combinations.

Here are 10 reasons PDF files are better for distributing information than Microsoft Word files, (which are made for easy editing not universal distribution and printing.)

1. Word reformats documents every time it opens a document on a different computer.
2. Word reformats docs every time a different printer is chosen even on the same computer.
3. This reformatting can change page numbers on long documents, ruining references and producing different versions for different people.
4. Reformatting can put hyphens in the middle of sentences making meaning of words harder to understand (mis-son or mission?).
5. Old versions of Word cannot open versions formatted for newer versions of Word (2007 vs, 2003 vs, 2000 vs. 97).
6. Word documents can easily be changed either accidentally or for reasons not agreeable to the author.
7. Every version of Word (or Word with add-ons to view different versions of Word files) is not available on all computers 
8. Free PDF viewers are easily available while Word is a commerical program that users must pay to obtain and upgrade.
9. PDF is created for electronic distribution and use on a wide variety of computer configurations.
10. PDF can be easily opened and viewed from the web sites.

PDF viewers

You probably already have one on your computer.  

Adobe is the creator of PDF and has the most common reader It is free, but I recommend unchecking the option box that installs McAfee Security Scan.

FoxIt Reader is also free and less demanding on computers. 

Making a PDF file

Version 2007 of Microsoft Office has a free download plug-in that will save files as PDF

Recent versions of Wordperfect have a built-in option to print to PDF

PrimoPDF has a free version that installs as a “printer” that prints by saving a PDF version of the document (or any file) to your computer.

CutePDF also installs as a “printer”

Wikipedia has a list of other PDF programs 

Online options (nothing to install!) include NitroPDF’s free pdftoword and Adobe’s CreatePDF (previously free, an annual paid subscription required) You send a file via a web page and they email you a link to download the PDF file in a few hours.

The original post was on Eastminster Presbytery’s website.