The basics

306 ADVANCED PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 5.0 FOR DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHERS
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Adding your backgrounds to a PowerPoint slide
Microsoft PowerPoint >>
PowerPoint provides an easy
way to bring together
images, text, tables and
videos into a digital slide
show format.
With your backgrounds now complete you can import them into
your PowerPoint presentation. When formatting slides in the
program the background and the presentation information such as tables, text and pictures that sit
on the background are treated separately. It is possible to construct your whole presentation and
then apply a single background image to all the slides or even apply different images for each slide.
To add your newly created background images to an existing slide select Background from the
PowerPoint Format menu. Next choose the Fill Effects option from the drop-down menu at the
bottom of the Background dialog. Choose the Picture tab from the Fill Effects dialog and click the
Select Picture button. Navigate your way through your folders to fi nd the slide backgrounds that
you saved as JPEG fi les. Select the background you want to use for this slide and click Insert and
then OK. In the Background dialog click Apply to use the picture for just a single slide or Apply to All
to make this image the default background for all slides in the presentation.
Step 1 >> Choose Background from
the Format menu and then pick Fill
Effects from the drop-down list.
Step 2 >> Choose Select Picture from
the Picture tab of the Fill Effects dialog
and then fi nd your background
pictures.
Step 3 >> With the backgrounds
now inserted add the content of the
presentation.