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  - ADD A CUSTOM PRESENTATION THEME

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Another way to tweak your presentation’s background image and colors is to export the

presentation as a ZIP le, and then adjust the theme’s stylesheet.

To do so, open an existing presentation, or create a new one. Now, select Change Theme from the

top menu and pick the Gradient White theme (though other themes work as well), as pictured in

Figure 4-2. Then choose File→Save as ZIP from the menu and pick a location on your computer. If

you extract the ZIP le and open the folder, you will notice that Google provided you with a set of

HTML les, stylesheets, and images, as well as JavaScript library les. Open the HTML le in the

main folder—in the case of my sample presentation, it’s called All_About_Tea.html—in your browser

to have a look.

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Next, locate the main background image of your presentation by opening the folder les/themes/

gradientwhite. In it, you will nd the picture gradientwhite_sm.png; open it in an image editor, replace

it with your design, and save the image (but don’t change the lename). You can create an image from

scratch, as long as you give it the ...