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course were going to work with backgrounds in PowerPoint.You could
start with a theme that controls backgrounds, and colors, and
fonts.But if you want to start from scratch, that's what were going
to dig into.So here I have almost a blank slide and to get to the
background menu I just right-click on my mouse.And I can see Format
Background. Now, one thing, you want to make sure you click on the
blank part of the slide. If I click on this image or I click over
here on this text box I get a different menu when I right-click.So,
some place with no element, right-click, Format Background, and it
opens up this menu. Lets jump into Solid Fill. And we choose Let me
just click on the fill color box and it gives me colors.Now, even
though this is a blank presentation it has a theme. Its called the
Office theme.And each theme has its own palette of colors. Thats
why these are chosen.But you also can use Standard Colors or you
can click More Colors.First there is a color wheel you can choose a
color on.Or you can go up to Custom. Custom is great because you
can plug in values.There is a thing called RGB colors and they have
a number value.If you get those from your design team or you can
plug those in and get the exact colorLets say for your company
colors, you can put that in your PowerPoint.But, there's also a
shortcut for that and this is new in PowerPoint 2013.Let me go over
here to Color and go down to this Eyedropper tool and click
that.And I move now the very tip of this eyedropper, if you put it
on a color.One, if you rest in there, it shows you the RGB
colors.But if you click it, there you go, it turns the background
to that color, right from that image.Couple things about color. One
don't be afraid to use white or black.I mean this is your
background, it shouldn't be you know the star is your foreground of
your presentation.Also if you use a strong color, its going to
limit the color palette.I mean think about those PowerPoint we've
seen where you had those blue, dark blue backgrounds.They put black
text on them, it's really hard to read.Also if youre going to be in
auditorium, some place dark where the audiences dark,make sure you
use a dark or black background.Okay, lets go on. Lets show Gradient
Fill. Click that and you can see it kind of blends light in
color.In fact, the top part here's white and the color comes in at
the bottom corner.Now if you look over the menu, there's tons of
different ways you could fiddle with this as much as you want.Ill
just show you a preset or two. If I click this box, now the light
is at the bottom and the corners are dark.Finally we're going to
show a Texture Fill.And, go down here to this box, this little box,
that says Texture and shows you some premade ones.There's some
marble, there's cloth, there's some other things you can use. This
is a paper bag I kind of like.You click on that. Now one thing with
a strong background is, as you can see, its hard to read text on
that,so you can lighten it up with just this Transparency tool.Its
a bar you just click on it and move it to get the lightness that
you wanted.You can see which you want and and click and there you
have it.If you like this for the background anytime that you like
the background, you just go down here to Apply to All. And you can
click that and it applies the background to all of the slides.Now,
to do more with pictures and watermarks,we need to learn a little
bit about the Slide Master and well do that in the next video.
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backgrounds,you know to know a little bit about Slide Masters.
Slide Masters are kind of a skeleton of your PowerPoint.You can
view it at any time. On the Home menu, go over here to New Slide,
and click on that.And you can see as there is a whole bunch of
different slides in that Theme. They have different elements to
them. And, that's great to use. Anytime you do a new slide, just
dont copy or duplicate previous slide.You can use a new one
here.Now you can edit those and that's what the master slide can
do. Ill show you how to get to that.So, click up here in the Menu
and click View.And, then click Slide Master. And now everything on
the left-hand side is the Slide Master.You're not working on your
presentation anymore, youre just working on Slide Masters.Let me
make these a little bigger for you.So, you can change anything here
and you can use those slides.This one on the top you want to be
careful, its a little extra big, because its extra-special.Anything
you put on this slide will appear in all the other slides. Again,
you want to be careful with that.When you're done with Slide
Master, just click here and Close Master View, and, you're back in
your presentation. Well show you how to put something in there like
a watermark in our next video. Quick backgrounds Pictures and logos
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in PowerPoint Closed captions Summary Feedback Help So, here were
going to show you a couple of different ways to use a picture
background.A lot of people want to use as a watermark or even a
logo.To do that as we talked about in the previous video you need
to open up your Slide Master, so let's do that.Let's go over here
to View and click Slide Master.And now again, the left-hand side -
it's no longer presentation - its all Slide Masters.You could pick
the top one and put something there but that would Anything you put
here would be in all of your slides. I dont think you need logo on
all of your slides, just maybe a few of them. Unless youre doing
something for security. So Im going to pick this slide here I'm
going to put something here.Now if youre doing something small, you
just insert like a regular picture.Its not a backgroundits a little
watermarkso lets say a logo.So, Insert, Pictures, you can grab them
from online. Im going to grab them from my desktop here. Now Ill
grab the logo. And, I can drag this around to where I want to, I
just click the outside, and I can pull it down.Therere some guides
pop up that kind of guide you in and tell you when you level with
things Im going to put it right there. And this will appear anytime
I choose this slide in my presentation.Ill show you that in just a
moment but since Im here lets just add a picture.But were going to
add a background picturethe whole width.So, to do thatwhat we want
to do is right-click on the blank part of the slide, Format
Background.Well come back over here to Picture or Texture
fill.Except this time were going to choose the picture under File,
and Im going to choose this picture.It might be something for, lets
say, first slide for jumping off event.Or maybe this is a slide we
use a lot in our advertising we want to useNow, its a pretty strong
picture with a lot of colors.So, again, this is a background, we
want to drop it down, its foreground thats important.So were going
to take this Transparency bar and move that down quite of ways
actually. Just so its subtlety there. Okay, and when Im done, Im
going to Close Master View in the ribbon. And now Im back at my
presentation. And here Im going to add a new slide. And here is the
new slide I just made.So I can choose that one anytime I want the
background with a logo.Now there is another way to use pictures
that I think is a little bit for me its a lot of more fun.But I
think its a vibrant way of doing it. Let me show you that.Im going
to just insert a regular picture. Let me get a new slide here. A
new blank slide.Okay, and then Im going to insert a picture. Im
going to choose the same picture.Im going to change a few things
here. Im going to close the Format menu here, by clicking the
box.And then down here on the bottom right-hand corner.Thats the
Zoom, thats its not controlling the slide, its controlling the work
space.And what I want to do, I want to make this smaller. Now, the
large white box, thats the slide itself with the picture. You can
see what its going to look like here in the thumbnail on the
left-hand side. So kind of watch both spaces. But what I want to do
here. Is I want to take this picture and Im going to use an element
of the picture.One of the things is I want to take one of these big
beautiful pictures nowand if you have something that has a lot of
quality to it, you can blow it up and it still looks really nice.So
you kind of see what Im doing. I just want to grab an element of
this picture.Just kind of the steps the kind of the action of the
picture.And it has a nice big negative space here this cement,
thats a great place to put text.So lets do that. Lets click Insert,
Text Box.Ill just put a big text box in here. Let me type in
something really quick. Let me pick a big font here.Something that
you can read in the back row.So there I can put text and I can kind
of see where its going to be if I look at the left side,if I look
at the thumbnail at the same time.And now, lets show what it looks
like when its fully done. There!Thats a great way, I think, to use
a big vibrant picture with some actionthat its a background but
still its now that kind of barely there.Its really vibrant and can
really help to tell your story.In fact we can do even you want to
do a little extra?Well do a little extra. Watch this. That new tool
in PowerPoint 2013, the Eyedropper. Watch what I can do here. Im
going to select the text and then this little mini menu pops up,
and I can change the font color.So let me click on that. And here I
can use the Eyedropper. And I can use any part of the picture, any
color here. I can use, the green of the grass or the blue jeans. Im
going to use a little bit of orange shirt and click that.And now my
text blends a color from the picture right into the font. Thats
pretty good looking slide.Well show you about removing backgrounds
in PowerPoint in our next video. Quick backgrounds Pictures and
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our last video were going to be talking about removing backgrounds
in PowerPoint.Most of the time when people want to remove a
background its because they were given a deck, they inherited a
deck, maybe Well in this example: this Charity Ball & Action,
lets say this is last years deck I'm in charge of this year.And I
want to clean up the deck a little bit to give it a different look.
Now is this a background I can change?Its not a solid background.
Now one clue is you look at the left-hand sideAll those slide the
backgrounds look the same with that stripe. And if I click under
LayoutYou see all the slides, theyre all themed, so this is the
theme Im dealing with. Not just a solid background.So to change the
theme, I go up to Design.And, really you could change really
quickly right here you can you see what you just put your mouse
over each look. You can see what it looks like. It changes
everything. But I'm going to just use a blank presentation so let
me do that. And, use this one here, this Office theme, it changes
the fonts a bit but it keeps the text,It keeps the pictures and I
can start with a fresh background. Now, pictures here. This main
picture here I want to change. Now watch this one when I click on
it. As soon as I click the picture, I get this box around it thats
selects the picture. So now I can move it around or I can just
simply delete it. I'll do that. Now let me go down to this
logo.Lets say this company doesn't notice anymore.So I want to get
rid of this logo. I click on it but there's no box, nothing
happens.The reason, and if you've been watching the videos you
knowit's because of this image is not on this slide, its on the
Slide Master.So I have to go in there to delete it. So let's go up
to View. And, click Slide Master.And now the left-hand side, no
longer my presentation its all the Slide Masters.and as you can see
in the bottom right-hand corner there's a logo in each one of those
slides.So let me go to the very top on this big master slide and
there it is.So let me click on that to select it. And now on the
right-hand side Im going to choose this logo.Again, anything on
this main slide will be on the others slides.So if I go down here
to the logo and click it, now I get the box. So now Ive selected
it. I simply delete it.In fact let me show you that again.If you
look on the left-hand side of the thumbnails as soon as I delete
it,itll disappear from all of the slides.When I'm done, click Close
Master View and now I'm back.I have a very clean background and for
me I'm ready to build the auctionThe Charity Ball & Auction for
this year, make new backgrounds, make new pictures, and you know
what?Ill going to invite you to come along. So you'll be going to
the Charity Ball this year.I cant believe I did the double thumb.
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Slide Masters Removing Backgrounds: First steps If you want to
start from scratch, just right-click on a blank part of the slide.
Click Format Backgrounds. A menu appears on the right-hand side and
you can use colors, pictures, or textures. Remember, this is the
background of your presentation, so dont be afraid to use white or
black. Dont let the background overwhelm your presentation. A bit
about Slide Masters Watermarks and logos are often found in the
PowerPoint Slide Master. If you dont know how to work with Slide
Masters, youll need to learn about opening and closing them. To
open the Slide Master, select View>Slide Master. Make sure you
select the Close Master View button when you are done with changes.
Picture backgrounds: Two methods Click Insert>Pictures to add
images such as logos. To use pictures as a backgrounds, reduce
transparency so text can be seen. Right-click a blank part of the
slide. Click Format Backgrounds > Picture or texture fill, use
the menu to change transparency. Removing backgrounds If you cant
remove a background, it may be part of a theme. On the Home Tab,
click the Layout button to see what the slides look like. You can
change a theme by going to the Design tab and mousing over the
different designs. The Office Theme is the simplest with a blank
background. See also Where to find the buttons Insert a picture
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