Media and slides

Slide designer

For a welcome slide, notices, or a verse over a picture, make your own slides.

Making slides

Click + Slides at the top of the Service column. The slide designer opens.

• On the left: the slides. Click one to change it. Point at a slide for ↑ and ↓ (move), ⧉ (copy) and ✕ (delete).
• In the middle: the slide itself.
• On the right: settings for whatever you’ve clicked.

Type a name at the top (“Welcome”, “Notices”), then Save slides. They go into the service.

To change them later, select the item and click Edit slides above its slides.

A new slide

Click + New slide and pick a layout to start from:

• Title
• Title and text
• Picture with caption
• Words on a band
• Big verse
• Blank

Adding things

At the top: + Words, + Picture, + Box.

• Drag to move. Drag a corner to resize. Lines appear when things line up with the middle or each other.
• Arrow keys nudge (hold Shift for one pixel at a time).
• Delete removes, Ctrl+D copies, Ctrl+Z undoes (or ↶ Undo).

Words

Click the words, then type in the box on the right. Choose the Font, Size, colour, B (bold), I (italic), Shadow, and Left, Centre or Right.

Pictures

Choose which picture (from the Media tab), and Whole picture (shows all of it) or Fill the box (crops to fit). Rounded corners if you like.

Boxes

A coloured box, for example a band behind words. Choose the colour, See-through and Rounded corners.

Arrange

Centre across, Centre down, Bring forward, Send back, Copy, Delete.

The slide background

Click an empty part of the slide. On the right, under Slide background:

• The usual background: your church background (from the Media tab).
• A colour.
• A picture or video from the Media tab.

Moving on by itself

For notices before the service, tick Loop by itself above the slides. See Announcement loops.