Title Slide

If you plan to create slide shows, you will most likely want title slides for these shows. Many of the “slide show generating” programs have some ability to create a title slide as part of their features. However, in this lesson we are going to make a stand alone jpg file. This image can either be a template for future title slides or the final title slide for a specific presentation.
Let’s consider two different types of starting images (jpg files) for our title slide.

The first one will be completely blank; white, black, or any color you choose. It will contain no text at first and will be saved as a file “TitleSlide white.jpg” in our My Pictures folder.

1. Start the Windows Paint program (it is found in the Accessories group)
2. When you see the blank screen, simply choose File, Save As, and save it as TitleSlide white.
3. Make sure the Save as type line says JPEG.
4. You now have a blank white image in your my Pictures folder.
5. If you want a blank blue slide use the paint can to fill the whole screen with a color.
Later, you can use this slide as a starting point (you will need to add text) within any program that creates slide shows, e.g. Picasa.

The second choice for a starting image will be an existing slide or picture.

1. Start Picasa (or any image editing program) and choose the image you want as a background for your title slide.
2. Open in as if you were to edit it.
3. Choose File, Save As and save it as TitleSlide.
4. Now you have a copy of both the original photo and one you can use as a title slide.

Let’s make a title slide out of either of these two images using Picasa.
1. Double click on the image as if to edit it.
2. With the blank color or the starting image slide you may wish to edit it a little. For example in the Tuning tab, you can play with all the sliders to make the image more or less dominate. The same thing goes for the Effects tab.

The original color slide can benefit from all of these alterations.

Finally it’s time to add some text.
1. From the Basic Fixes tab choose Text, it’s in the middle, right above the Fill Light slider.
2. Enter you title text anywhere on the slide.
3. Change the font, size, style, etc. to suit you needs.
3. Use the File, Save As dialog to save your final title slide, TitleSlide.
4. When it comes time to build your slide show, simply use TitleSlide as one of your images.

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