Welcome to the wonderful world of LaTeX. It could help if you could say if you are using any package like Beamer or Prosper to build your presentation. I believe you don't have to split the frame. You can put your pictures to appear where you want. See this link about Beamer , on the section ...
This is a little out of context but on-topic. It happens to me that all my documents built with LaTeX appear with a black bar on Foxit Reader right on the bottom (and the printer prints the black bar over the text).
In Acrobat Reader everything looks good. Anyone noticed the same?