Unique Background for PowerPoint Presentation
Background is important part of presentation’s appearance. PowerPoint have a lot of backgrounds, but I don’t know why, people loves boring blue backgrounds. 90% of presentations I ever seen have standard blue PowerPoint background. It’s boring!
I entered in Yandex “download presentation ppt” in Russian.

Look at the first presentation in search results:

If you want to concentrate listener’s attention don’t use standard backgrounds. Of course you may draw beautiful picture in Photoshop, but it’s difficult and requires a lot of time. I show you the simple way. Let’s change background of downloaded presentation:
1. Put on the background picture – basis of our future background.

It’s better, but this picture is too bright. What we can do?
2. Let’s draw rectangle with slide size. Set needed opacity for rectangle. You can change rectangle’s color for different effects and gradient’s variants.

3. Copy rectangle to clipboard. Open “View” > “Template” > “Slide’s Template”.

Paste rectangle. Put it into background in right button menu.

Close “Slide’s Template”. And we have:

Author: Oleg Samusenko
Picture from: http://davidniblack.com/templates/
P. S. I’m sorry for menu’s Russian language. I don’t have English version of PowerPoint now. Please write me about translation mistakes.