Cannot Edit Background of PPt template

[Guest]

Hi. I downloaded a PowerPoint template (called Crimson Landscape) and I need
to edit the background graphics. Specifically, I need to reduce the
brightness of a portion of the design. I have a powerful graphic editing
program, but I cannot find the template file itself so I can change it.
Please tell me where to find the actual files that make up a template so I
can modify that template. Thanks very much.

 

[Geetesh Bajaj]

Choose View | Master | Slide Master.

Can you play with it now?

 

[Guest]

MORE INFORMATION from the item's author:
It is actually listed as: crimson_landscape_qx
But I cannot find it anywhere to edit it. And my graphics program cannot
recognize the crimson.pot file. So I would really appreciate help from a
knowledgeable person!

 

[Sonia]

Maybe if you tell us where you downloaded it from (web address) we can take a
look and help you. Otherwise it's pretty difficult.
--

Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials
http://www.soniacoleman.com

 

[Justin]

If you CAN find the .POT file then convert the crimson.pot file to an html
file using the "Save as webpage" function. Then go into the folder that
broke the presentation down to HTML files, and find the background file (do
this is thumbnail mode, it should be a jpg. and there probably will be two
of them. Choose the higher res file). bring that jpg into your editing
program, change it and apply it as your new background.

That's what I would do.

Justin

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Hi. I downloaded a PowerPoint template (called Crimson Landscape) and I need
to edit the background graphics. Specifically, I need to reduce the
brightness of a portion of the design. I have a powerful graphic editing
program, but I cannot find the template file itself

Any presentation based on the template contains all the information from the
template. Even if you can't find the original POT file, you can open a
presentation based on it and choose File, Save As and pick Presentation Design
(*.POT) and save to a location of your choice.

That won't get you much further than you already are, however; if you can't
change the current presentation, you won't be able to change the template.
Follow Geetesh's suggestion. Try editing the master. If you can't make that
work, let us know what problems you ran into.

 

[Guest]

I'm about to try Justin's idea. Thanks so far to all of you who are trying
to help. I'll let everyone know how things progress.

.. . . Sachssci

 

[Guest]

Using Justin's technique (saving as html) I was able to extract the jpg and
edit it. Thank all of your for your fine help. This takes care of the
problem! We can consider this matter closed.

.. . . Sachssci