This is the best color scheme

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This is the best color scheme

• Yellow over dark blue.
• Which is a two color screen with lighter on top
  fading to darker on bottom.

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Blue Green

• Denotes and influences calmness.
• Slows breathing and heart rate.
• Often associated with dry, formal presentation
  due to overuse.

• Stimulates interaction.
• Promotes discussion.

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Avoid Brown

• Connotes uneasiness, passivity, immaturity.
• Unimportance and appears as a washed out blue to
  about 25 of the population who have difficulty
  with red/green perception issues.

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Text for Retention

• Highlighting specific texts aids in retaining not
  only the information highlighted, but the entire
  page.
• Highlighting is best used for stressing points
  but also for assisting in mentally cataloguing or
  arranging the information for the reader.

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Timing

• Study of timing of information shows that
  presentation of information is most effective
  when it is received 7 seconds prior to the
  accompanying.

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Timing is important

• Slides are best put up 7 seconds before the
  speaker begins speaking.
• This gives the audience time to orient to the new
  information.

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Text is Important

• Text should be in standard fonts
• Text should be limited to no more than 7 bullets
  on a slide
• Text should be of a font size that is readily
  readable.
• Use bullets and encourage the reader to scan to
  the most important item.

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Pictures

• No more than one picture per slide
• Picture should always be on point
• If picture needs a legend to understand, be sure
  to provide it

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Colors

• Yellow over blue is one of most effective
• Red is good with limited use, but not with greens
  
• In some groups red may be a problem (accountants)

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More on Color

• Avoid Blue text over black background
• Text to background should generally be color
  wheel opposites
• Color adds power and enhances memorization

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Avoid being too Artsy

• Use simple shapes when presenting graphics
• Photos are not necessarily as powerful as shapes

• Simple is best
• Avoid long sentences.
• Limit graphs or pictures to one main thought.

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Effectiveness

• Use of visuals increases persuasiveness by up to
  43 over an audio presentation alone.
• Audiences expect the better presenters to use
  high quality visuals.

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Colors

• Background colors affect mood.
• Culture influences color choice.
• Pink is considered frilly, yet pink tinted colors
  bring warmth and work well.
• Colors such as rust, rose, magenta are all pink
  in undertones and work well.

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Reds

• Reds bring emotion, but can increase aggressive
  reactivity to presentation.
• Reds associated with passion, desire,
  competitiveness.
• Increases pulse rate, breathing rates, risk
  taking behaviors.
• Use it to make points.

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Black

• Denotes professionalism and finality
• Also starkness and emphasizes the black and white
  aspects of an issue.
• Reserve for formal presentations or use in the
  last slides to note the final word or bottom
  line.

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Gender

• Men prefer reds that have yellow-brown undertones
  such as rust.
• Women prefer blue based reds, such as brick red,
  maroon, burgundy, and crimson.