Watermark backgrounds in PPT?

[Ray Ash]

Greetings:

I have a user who is developing a Power Point
presentation. He has watermark that he created in Word
from a picture (jpeg) and he uses it as his background for
all his e-mails and what-not. Anyway, is there a way to
incorporate this watermark as a background in his PPT
presentation? Also, does the use of a presentation
template have any effect on this process? I know how to
make the jpeg itself appear as a background, but he wants
the 'watermark' effect as the background.

Thanks in advance.

 

[B]

There are two primary ways to skin this cat. (I do not condone skinning
cats)

Method one...
Use a graphics program, such as Photo Editor, to reduce the contrast and
adjust the brightness until you have an image that is consistant with his
idea of a watermark. Save the picture as something new, then insert it as
the background on the master slide.


Method two ...
Insert a picture (from file) to get the picture on the master slide. Size
it to fill the slide. Use PowerPoint's picture tools to adjust the contrast
and brightness. Send it to the back using the order | send to back command.

B

 

[BJChadwick]

There are two primary ways to skin this cat. (I do not condone skinning
cats)

Method one...
Use a graphics program, such as Photo Editor, to reduce the contrast and
adjust the brightness until you have an image that is consistant with his
idea of a watermark. Save the picture as something new, then insert it as
the background on the master slide.


Method two ...
Insert a picture (from file) to get the picture on the master slide. Size
it to fill the slide. Use PowerPoint's picture tools to adjust the contrast
and brightness. Send it to the back using the order | send to back command.

B

Might I suggest a third method -- which is really a variation of Method One --

Using a graphics program (I do it in Paint Shop Pro and know that PhotoShop
has the same capability.) Take the user's graphic and turn it into a mask.
Save the mask. Start a new graphic. Fill the background with a color (or
some gradient of related colors.) Add a second layer and fill that with a
somewhat darker or lighter version of the same color family. (I usually do
this one with a gradient as well or a texture to get away from completely
"flat" colors. Apply the mask you created from the user's graphic to the
upper layer.) Voila! the graphic appears as a sort of "watermark" -- the
strength of the appearance depends partly on how different the colors are in
the two layers and also what blend method you use for the layers. Then save
the final graphic and insert is s the background on the master slide. This
sometimes gives a very nice "damask" appearance.
You can adjust the size of the original graphic or create a mask with the
graphic in a particular spot on an otherwise plain background -- say lower
left corner. You can even spot the graphic in 2 or three sizes and more or
less random positions on a plain background to make your mask. I just did a
whole family of backgrounds this way for a project a friend is doing -- all
with the same mask but different colors for different portions of the project.

Just a suggestion --

BJ


BJ

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
Greetings:

I have a user who is developing a Power Point
presentation. He has watermark that he created in Word
from a picture (jpeg) and he uses it as his background for
all his e-mails and what-not. Anyway, is there a way to
incorporate this watermark as a background in his PPT
presentation? Also, does the use of a presentation
template have any effect on this process? I know how to
make the jpeg itself appear as a background, but he wants
the 'watermark' effect as the background.

Thanks in advance.
.

 

[Quintero Griselda]

To make a watermark effect as the background: go to View
in the tool bar and under Master choose slide master, then
right click on the picture, choose format picture, then
choose the "picture" tab, then on image control click on
color and choose (washout). This process will affect all
your ppslides. I hope this advise helps you. If it does
help you in any way can you please email me at
(e-mail address removed) my name is Griselda Quintero
and let me know if it helped you. This is an assignment
due for one of my class in CSUF.

 

[Mr Fleming]

open it in Adobe photoshop and by using the opacity
setting the image can be made a watermark. Save file and
copy onto master slide. Save the file as JPEG

 

[John Langhans [MSFT]]

Hello Ray,

Here's a PowerPoint 2002 and 2003 only solution that takes advantage of the
true transpareny feature, which has the additional benefit that you can
change your color schemes on your slides and the background automatically
adjusts so that it continues to contrast and complement the other color
scheme colors while still allowing the background image to be seen.

A) Make the image the background for all slides in your presentation
1. Format -> Background
2. Choose "Fill Effects" from drop-down menu in dialog
3. In "Picture" tab select your background picture file and click "OK"
4. Click "Apply to all"

B) Add "washout" mask in front of background
1) View -> Master -> Slide Master
2) Draw a rectangle AutoShape that covers entire slide area
3) Draw -> Order -> Send to Back
4) Format -> AutoShape
5) Change Fill color to 1st color scheme color and trasparency to 50%
6) Change Line color to "No Color"
7) Click "OK"
8) Repeat steps 2 through 7 for Title Master if one exists
9) Close master view

C) See how changing color schemes affects the appearance of your slides
(background as well as slide contents (title, text)
1) Format -> Slide Design
2) Click on "Color Schemes" link at top of Slide Design task pane
3) Apply different color schemes to the slide and see how the slide
(including background) adjusts accordingly

This works bests with background images that don't contain big regions of
widely varying contrast. For example a landscape of dark forest trees
(green) with bright light blue sky, so that bottom half of background is
very dark and top half is very light, is not the best type of background
image for this approach.

You might also experiment with different transparency percentages
(depending on your specific background image).

John Langhans
Microsoft Corporation
Supportability Program Manager
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
Microsoft Office Picture Manager for Windows

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