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Answer : You forgot to give the mandatory width to the second column, and you included an unnecessary width= in the width for the first column. \documentclass[demo]{beamer} \begin{document} \begin{frame} \frametitle{explanation} \begin{columns} \begin{column}{0.5\textwidth} some text here some text here some text here some text here some text here \end{column} \begin{column}{0.5\textwidth} %%<--- here \begin{center} \includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{image1.jpg} \end{center} \end{column} \end{columns} \end{frame} \end{document} Also note that the graphics need not be scaled down as much in the second column. The column becomes a minipage , so \textwidth is already adjusted to its width. \documentclass[demo]{beamer} \begin{document} \begin{frame} \frametitle{explanation} \begin{columns} \begin{column}{0.5\textwidth} some text here some text here some text here some text here some text here \end{column} \begin{column}{0.5\textwidth} \begin{center}...

Answer : I had the same problem: blank lines in latex articles produces a clearly separated paragraph, but in Beamer, with the limited space and no indentation, the default new paragraph is does not strikingly separate the paragraphs. My hack solution was to append the following latex code to the end of the paragraph that should have the space. \\~\ For example, try inserting this into a Beamer latex file: \frame{ This is text that should have a blank line after it. \\~\\ Here is text following a blank line. } I've noticed this too when preparing slides. Rather than have two paragraphs and separate them with vertical space explicitly, I've often used one of the following workarounds: convert each of the paragraphs you want to split to a block-like environment such as theorem , question , answer , etc. That way (in my theme, at least) they get boxed and visually separated. if the two paragraphs are supporting material to the same point, use an itemize env...