How to create presentations with themes, templates, and slide designs

Create presentations in Show

Create presentations with Show's built-in themes, templates, and individual slide designs.
Themes:
Themes come with a pre-designed set of fonts, colors, and minimal designs that help your presentations feel unified.
Templates: 
Presentation templates are a group of slides that contain layouts, colors, fonts, effects, background slides, and designs. Some also include placeholder content according to the topic selected.
Slide designs:
Individual slides are predesigned slides that are required to create a presentation.

Create presentations

In the listing page, click +New Presentation. This will open the Themes, Templates, Slides page. 

      
Alternatively, within the Gallery section in the listing page, select Themes, Templates, or Slides to create a presentation with it. 

Create a presentation with themes

Show offers a wide range of theme designs for both Wide (16:9) and Normal (4:3) screen grouped into various categories.
  1. Click on the selected theme and the theme's font scheme, color scheme, and a preview of the theme layouts will be listed in the right pane. 
  2. Click Untitled Presentation and add a name for the presentation.
  3. Click the Fonts dropdown to choose fonts from other themes' fonts. 
  4. Click the Colors dropdown to choose colors from other themes' colors. 
  5. Click Choose Theme to create a presentation with a theme.


Create a presentation with templates

Show offers various templates grouped under different categories.
  1. Click on the selected template to preview the slides on the right pane. 
  2. Enter a name for the presentation in the Untitled Presentation space in the right pane.
  3. Click Choose Template to create a presentation with the template.


Create a presentation with slide designs

Show has various slides categorized into cover, content, comparison, image, quote, end, and seasonal slides.
  1. Click on the required slides to select them. A preview of the slides can be viewed in the right pane.
  2. Enter a name for the presentation in the Untitled Presentation space in the right pane.
  3. Click Choose Slides to create a presentation with slides.

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