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There are plenty of options in PowerPoint to make your slide background look great. Other than the default slide background styles, you can also explore solid, gradient, picture fills, texture fills, and pattern fills for your slide backgrounds. Among these alternatives, picture fills can look the most spectacular, but they can end up looking the most distracting as well. Clearly, there has to be some careful thought before you decide on a picture that’s suitable as a slide background.
To learn more, choose your version of PowerPoint. If we do not have a tutorial for your version of PowerPoint, explore the version closest to the one you use.
Adjust Picture Used as Slide Background in PowerPoint 2011
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Most presentations contain pictures. A picture in PowerPoint can be used in many ways, as a picture you insert, as a picture you place within a shape, or even as something that covers the entire slide as a background.
To learn more, choose your version of PowerPoint. If we do not have a tutorial for your version of PowerPoint, explore the version closest to the one you use.
Picture Fills for Slide Backgrounds in PowerPoint 2016
Picture Fills for Slide Backgrounds in PowerPoint 2013
Picture Fills for Slide Backgrounds in PowerPoint 2010
Picture Fills for Slide Backgrounds in PowerPoint 2011
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Boris Hristov is the Founder of presentation agency 356labs and a PowerPoint MVP. He has presented in 25+ countries and has been rated as the top speaker numerous times. Boris has years of experience as a trainer, mentor and consultant and works with companies like Deutsche Telekom, KPMG, Renault, Societe Generale, Roche, Publicis, Experian, Bosch, adidas and many, many more to help them craft and deliver truly effective presentations. His agency is also the only presentation agency in the world speaking at Microsoft Ignite – the biggest yearly event of Microsoft, attended by more than 25000 people.
Here’s a list of links on Indezine.com where he has been featured:
Present to Succeed 2026: Conversation with Boris Hristov
December 5, 2025
Present to Succeed 2021: Conversation with Boris Hristov
October 17, 2020
5 Slide Design Tips to Take Home from a Successful IPO Presentation Project
June 5, 2019
356labs: Conversation with Boris Hristov
May 15, 2019
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Gradient fills are typically blended fills between two or more colors that graduate and merge from one color to another, they are sometimes also called fountain fills or blended fills in other programs. Other than applying gradients as shape fill, you can also apply Gradient fills to your Slide Background. However, make sure that the two or more colors that you use for your Gradient work well with text and other foreground elements on all your slides.
To learn more, choose your version of PowerPoint. If we do not have a tutorial for your version of PowerPoint, explore the version closest to the one you use.
Gradient Fills for Slide Backgrounds in PowerPoint 2016
Gradient Fills for Slide Backgrounds in PowerPoint 2013
Gradient Fills for Slide Backgrounds in PowerPoint 2010
Gradient Fills for Slide Backgrounds in PowerPoint 2011
Tutorial Code: 08 06 04
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PowerPoint’s Slide Backgrounds can be filled with a solid color, a gradient, a texture or a picture, or even one of PowerPoint’s built-in patterns. We explored a generic walkthrough on changing the Slide Background in our Format Slide Background in PowerPoint tutorial. This tutorial explores how you can use a solid color as the fill for your Slide Background, solid color fills have the advantage of showing a large expanse in just one color. This does keep the slide uncluttered and draws the audience’s attention away from the background to the foreground elements, and that’s a good thing! Unless you use a bright orange, a fluorescent yellow, or some other striking color as a background for your slide! So do choose your colors with caution – neutral colors such as white, grey, black, blue, and green always work better.
To learn more, choose your version of PowerPoint. If we do not have a tutorial for your version of PowerPoint, explore the version closest to the one you use.
Solid Fills for Slide Backgrounds in PowerPoint 2016
Solid Fills for Slide Backgrounds in PowerPoint 2013
Solid Fills for Slide Backgrounds in PowerPoint 2010
Solid Fills for Slide Backgrounds in PowerPoint 2011
Tutorial Code: 08 06 03
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