The sample slide on the left uses a picture fill that fills the entire slide expanse while the sample slide on the right uses the same picture as a texture fill.
To learn the difference between picture fills and texture fills, look at Figure 1 below. Also some pictures lend themselves better to being used as textures, especially if they are seamless. While a picture background results in your slide using a single picture as a backdrop, using a texture background can result in the same picture being tiled across the slide background.
Although both picture or texture fills work very similarly, choosing one option over the other can make the same background look so different. We cover picture fills for slide backgrounds in this tutorial, and will look at texture fills in a subsequent tutorial.īefore we go further, let us explore how picture fills are different from texture fills. In addition, you can also choose a picture or texture fill for your slide backgrounds.
We have already explained these two options in separate tutorials. When you want to format your slide background to look different from the default background styles available in PowerPoint, you can certainly explore both solid and gradient fills for slide backgrounds.
