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Step 1: Download The PowerPoint Twitter Background Template
The template is designed around a common screen width of 1280px

The TEMPLATE is ATTACHED AT THE END OF THIS POST.

Step 2: Creating Your Twitter Background
After you've downloaded and opened the template, you'll notice four boxes that correspond to the various Twitter fixed boxes. You will want to design around these boxes to place your own graphics.

Things to keep in mind...
• Give breathing room for graphics placed to the left of the main content area. Content area shifts left & right depending on browser window size.
• Large resolution screens may cover graphics placed to the right of sidebar.
• Small text may pixelate depending on the output quality of your image.
• The templates are 1920×1200 pixels in size to account for most computer screens; You should change template size to meet your needs.

Step 3: Exporting Your New Twitter Background
Exporting your background will require some patience and elbow grease. Unfortunately, Microsoft makes it difficult for PowerPoint users to select the size and resolution of their slides when exporting to JPEG. You have the following choices...

1. Choose File > Save As; select JPEG as the file type, and save. Then using Microsoft Paint, change the image size to 1920×1200 by going to Image > Attributes.
2. If choice #1 yields a poor quality image, then you can adjust the output resolution by tinkering with the registry as explained in the following Microsoft Support article: How to change the resolution of a slide that you export as a picture in PowerPoint.
3. If the previous two choices seem daunting, then you can spend a few bucks on the PPTools ImageExport PowerPoint add-in which gives you complete control over the entire export process.

If your exported image exceeds Twitter's 800Kb upload limit for backgrounds, then try reducing the quality or size of your exported image.

Step 4: Uploading Your New Twitter Background
The final step is to log-in to your Twitter account and click the Settings link located at the top of the page. On the setting page, click the Design tab and upload your new background via the Background Image field; click on the Home link at the top of the page if your background doesn't appear.

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  GP_twitter_bg.ppt