How To Make A Picture A Template In Powerpoint

Sometimes we want to create a PPT template from scratch using our ain custom images, for case if you have your company visual identity and the designer provides you the slide designs as a JPG paradigm (for the embrace slide, the internal slide and whatsoever other custom slide layout).

How to Create a PowerPoint Template using a JPG Image Background

Hither nosotros will see how to prepare a simple PowerPoint template using custom groundwork images in a few unproblematic steps.

First, we will offset a new presentation. You can cull the Pattern -> Page Layout to adjust the desired resolution, for example you can choose the iv:three resolution that was widely used for long time for PowerPoint presentations, or a modern 16:nine attribute ratio for your presentations with a widescreen mode. Make certain you choose the proper aspect ratio based on the groundwork images you have.

Then, get to View -> Slide Master and here you will see the Master layout and the other layouts for the presentation. Assuming we have three different slide backgrounds (for the cover slide, the internal slide with title on elevation, and some other secondary internal slide with vertical sidebar) what we will do to make a custom PowerPoint template is:

Setup the internal slide as a background for the master layout
Setup the groundwork for the embrace slide layout
Duplicate the title+content layout and so setup the background with vertical sidebar

The effigy below illustrates what are the central layouts we volition change groundwork for the PowerPoint presentation. This view is taken from PowerPoint 2010 simply it is very similar in PowerPoint 2007 and PowerPoint 2013.

background for powerpoint

Having the files in our local file organisation, outset we become to the Master slide layout and configure the default background for the slides. In our case, nosotros volition use the layout design with a white background and pinnacle cloud with bills and money.

internal slide example powerpoint

Then we are set to change the embrace slide and so nosotros move to the second thumbnail in the list and then select the Format Background options and then Fill the background with the paradigm/moving picture.

format background powerpoint

Then we choose Make full -> Picture or texture fill up and and then Insert from File.

format background with images

Here is an example showing the cover slide pattern in one case it is inserted in the layout.

finance powerpoint templates

Now we can duplicate one of the slide layouts and create another variant with the vertical sidebar. We will alter the background for this layout in PowerPoint and cull the other slide design we take created.

finance slide design

At present nosotros can close the Slide Chief view and go to the Normal view. Here is where yous gear up your final presentation. Yous tin can add more than slides (with a bare template it will look with white background but now that we have configured the Chief layout with a background the slide will be inserted with the pre-configured background). You lot can modify the default layout and reset the layout to go on the aforementioned styles you take configured in the Slide Master view.

Nosotros hope this tutorial help y'all to create custom PowerPoint presentations with custom background images that you or any other designer tin create in Photoshop and save as JPG or PNG format. Beyond this mail you lot can practice more things for example to insert the company logo in every slide design or you tin can modify the footer and header of the PowerPoint presentations. Moreover, yous can insert animations and effects in the master view then your final presentations have an animation.