Designing the background layer

When you create a slide show master, you are designing two slide layers: the background and the layout. To the background layer, you can add color and graphics; and to the layout layer, you can add placeholders for text, bulleted lists, and charts.

In this tutorial, you will be using a background supplied with Corel^® Presentations^TM 10. You will be changing the background color, modifying the graphic, and naming the background. If you did not choose the Custom all installation when installing Corel Presentations, you will not have access to the Theme category that we used in this tutorial.

To apply a background to a master

1. Click Edit menu Background layer.
2. Click Format menu Background gallery.
3. From the Category list box, choose Theme.
4. On the Background palette, click the cityscape bar image.
5. Click OK.

To fill the background with color

1. In the background window, click the background object to select it.
   Selection handles display around the object when it is selected.
2. Right-click the object, and click Object properties.
3. Click the Fill tab.
4. Open the Foreground picker, and click the black color swatch.
5. Open the Background picker, and click the black color swatch.
6. Click OK.

To convert the cityscape image to grayscale

1. Click the cityscape image to select it.
2. Click Tools menu Image tools Grayscale.

To rename the background

1. Click the Edit menu Rename background.
2. In the Name box, type Vintage city 1.
3. Click OK.

Click here to see what the background should look like when it is completed.

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