Welcome to Corel Presentations, a presentations application that lets you design Web-ready slide shows, multimedia presentations, and interactive demonstrations.
In this tutorial, you will design a slide show master, a template that you can apply to various slide shows.
Designing a slide show master allows you to design both the background and the layout that will be used by all the slides in the slide show. Using a master allows you to keep slide design separate from slide content; therefore, you can apply the master to multiple slide shows.
In this tutorial, you will
create a slide show master
design a background layer
create an alternate background
delete default layouts
create layouts
add lines to a slide
create a text slide layout
save the slide show master
Creating a slide show master
First, you will create a slide show master that you can use as the template for a slide show.
To create a slide show master
1 Click File menu New from project.
2 Click the Create new tab.
3 From the first list box, choose Corel Presentations.
4 From the list box, choose Corel Presentations Master.
5 Click Create.
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. 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 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.
Creating an alternate background
Here, you will create an alternate version of the vintage city background that you just created, and you will choose which background to apply. You will also be changing the location of the cityscape image.
To create a new background
1 Click Insert menu New background.
2 In the Name box, type Vintage city 2.
3 Click OK.
To choose a background
1 Click Format menu Background gallery.
2 On the background palette, click Vintage city 1.
3 Click OK.
To realign the cityscape image
1 Click the cityscape image to select it.
2 Right-click the image, and click Align Center both.
Click here to see what the alternate background should look like when it is completed.
Deleting layouts
When you create a master, you are given a set of predesigned layouts to work with. However, in this tutorial, you are going to delete the default layouts and create new layouts.
To delete a layout
1 Click Edit menu Layout layer.
2 From the Layout list box in the bottom-right corner of the design window, choose Title.
3 Click Edit menu Delete layout.
4 Click Yes.
5 Repeat steps 2, 3, and 4 to delete the following layouts:
Bulleted list
Text
Org chart
Data chart
Combination chart
Creating the Vintage city title slide layout
Next, you will design a title slide layout layer. A title slide is the first slide that appears in your slide show. You will add a background to the layout and add a text box. In addition, you will specify the way the text is displayed by choosing the text font, size, color, and position. In this example, changing the text color is very important because you are working with a black background and the default text color is also black. Therefore, you will need to change the color to display the text.
To create the Vintage city title slide layout
1 Click Insert menu New layout.
2 In the Name box, type Vintage title.
3 Click OK.
To add a background to the layout
1 Click Format menu Assign background.
2 From the Available backgrounds list box, choose Vintage city 2.
3 Click OK.
To add a text box
1 Click Insert menu Text box.
2 Drag the Text box tool to create a text box.
3 In the text box, type Title.
4 Right-click the text box, and click Justification Center.
5 Click outside of the text box.
To change the text font, size, and color
1 Right-click the text box, and click Font.
2 From the Face list, choose CopprplGoth Bd BT.
3 In the Size box, type 60.
4 Open the color picker, and click the white color swatch.
5 Click OK.
To reposition the text box
1 Click View menu Ruler.
2 Click View menu Grid/guides/snap Display guides.
3 Drag the horizontal guide to the 5 inch line on the ruler.
4 Drag the text box to align the top of the text box with the horizontal guide.
To align the text box
Right-click the text box, and click Align Center left/right.
Click here to see the title layout.
Adding lines to the Vintage city title slide layout
Next, you will modify the layout's design by adding colored lines and positioning the lines. You will create one line and copy it to create a second line. The lines are used to visually enhance the title text.
To add a line to the title slide layout
1 Click Insert menu Shape Line shapes Line.
2 Drag the Line shapes tool to create a 2"1/2 inch horizontal line.
3 Right-click the line, and click Object properties.
4 In the Outline style area, open the Color picker, and click the yellow color swatch.
5 Open the Line style picker, and click the Solid line swatch.
6 In the Width box, type 0.030.
To position the line
1 Drag the line to the left of the cityscape image in the design window.
2 Align the line with the 5 1/2 inch mark on the vertical ruler.
3 Place the line between the 1 and 3 1/2 inch marks on the horizontal ruler.
To copy the line
1 Click the line to select it.
2 Click Edit menu Copy.
3 Click Edit menu Paste.
To position the copy of the line
1 Drag the copy of the line to the right of the cityscape image in the design window.
2 Align the line with the 5 1/2 inch mark on the vertical ruler.
3 Place the line between the 7 and 9 1/2 inch marks on the horizontal ruler.
Click here to see what the title slide should look like once you add the lines.
Creating the Vintage city text slide layout
Next, you will create a text slide layout. To create the layout, you will add a background to the slide and a text box to the layout. You will also specify the font, size, and color of text that will display in the text box. You will then reposition the text box.
To create the Vintage text slide layout
1 Click Insert menu New layout.
2 In the Name box, type Vintage text.
3 Click OK.
To add a background to the layout
1 Click Format menu Assign background.
2 From the Available backgrounds list box, choose Vintage city 1.
3 Click OK.
To add a text box
1 Click Insert menu Text box.
2 Drag the Text box tool to create a 6.5 inch wide text box.
3 In the text box, type Text.
4 Right-click the text box, and click Justification Left.
5 Click outside the text box.
To change the text font, size, and color
1 Right-click the text box, and click Font.
2 From the Face list, choose CopprplGoth Bd BT.
3 Type Size box, type 36.
4 Open the Color picker, and click the white color swatch.
5 Click OK.
To reposition the text box
1 Click View menu Ruler.
2 Click View menu Grid/guides/snap Display guides.
3 Drag a horizontal guide from the horizontal ruler to the 3 inch line on the ruler.
4 Drag the text box to align the bottom of the text box with the horizontal guide.
5 Drag the text box in between the 9.5 inch and 3 inch lines on the ruler.
Click here to see what the layout looks like.
Saving the slide show master
You added slide layouts to the slide show master. Next, you will save the master and use it to create a slide show.
To save the slide show master
1 Click File menu Save.
2 From the Save in list box, where X represents the drive on which Corel Presentations is stored, choose X:\Program Files\Corel\WordPerfect Office 11\Masters.
3 Double-click one of the following master category folders:
35mm
Business
Color
Design
Nature
Printout
Theme
4 From the File type list box, choose Corel Presentations Master 7/8/9/10/11.
5 In the Filename box, type vintage city.
6 Click Save.
For more information about slide show masters
In this tutorial, you learned how to design a slide show master. For more information about the topics and tools discussed in this tutorial, refer to the online Help. To access the online Help, click Help Help topics.
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