Do you want an interesting background but fret that it is distracting from your message? One way to resolve this conflict is to use a textured background around the edges of your slides. Here’s an example.

The slide provides the steps, but I’ll explain them in more detail.

1. Take a photograph of something that has a nice texture. Another source is Stock Xchng’s abstract textures.
2. Open the Slide Master (View tab, Slide Master). [Read more…]