working with images

I spent two hours last night, and an hour this morning, fixing up some image work in Boolean Slots.  Kevin had suggested, and I’ve read in a number of articles, that when it’s possible it’s best to use images instead of words.  It’s also best to remove as many words as possible and make each “page” scannable.  So, I reduced the sizes of the Boolean Slots images and replaced theme anywhere the word was mentioned.  For example, instead of saying “Basketball” I used this:.

However, I didn’t realize that making this change was impacting the timing of the slides until I ran a preview after altering all 100+ slides. 

This meant that I had to go through and make sure each image showed up at the right time on each slide.  Strangely, there wasn’t a pattern to the incorrect timing, either. 

I still have larger timing issues to work on, but for now, everything appears in the right order, there is much less text, and generally the “pages” are pretty scannable. 

Now I’d like to find a way to get rid of the white space around the images and sub that version in.  It’d look much more professional and crisper.

My big take-away lesson: make a few changes and *then* do a preview to see exactly what you’re changing!