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Weekly Graphic Design Tutorial: Background Collage Secrets
This week's tutorial, from photoshopcafe.com, demonstrates how to use Photoshop to make collages. The example they develop is pretty busy and will work well as desktop wallpaper. However, these techniques can be also adapted to make a striking custom background graphic for your next PowerPoint presentation if the elements used in the collage don't clash with the slide content.
"We are about to embark on a 6-part voyage that will teach you how to create the high-tech multilayer backgrounds that make you go "wow". This is probably the most requested tutorial that I have been asked to write."
Update: Here's a PowerPoint background I banged out using some of the techniques in this tutorial as well as a few others I picked up elsewhere. I usually try to avoid using text effects in these backgrounds as they can interfere with the slide content.