Themes that look like your church, not a template graveyard

Volunteer-built slides should still look like your church. WorshipDeck themes set default colors, fonts, and backgrounds. You apply a theme when you create a presentation or change it later from the editor, then override a single slide when the moment needs a video bed or a quiet black frame.

You do not need a graphic designer on staff. You do need a theme the whole team reuses so Sunday does not look like six different products.

Pick, preview, apply

In the editor, Change theme opens a grid: Popular, All, categories, and search. Click to preview on your actual slides. Apply theme saves; Cancel reverts.

Customize themes opens the church theme library (Presentation themes in the app). Duplicate a built-in theme and adjust:

• Background color, image, or video per aspect ratio
• Typography sizes
• Text, heading, and accent colors
• Chord styling for worship lyric decks

Screen shape and layout

Presentation Settings include Screen shape:

• Wide (16:9): most projectors and streams
• Vertical (9:16): portrait TVs and social-style screens
• Classic (4:3): older projectors that still serve faithfully

Screen layout assigns which multi-screen template this deck uses: church default or a named layout your admin created. Layouts decide which content variant each physical output shows. You assign here; you design templates in church settings.

Backgrounds and audio on the insert bar

Slide background: color, image, or video; apply to this slide, a variant, or more of the deck. Reset to theme clears custom backgrounds on the current slide.

Background audio: choose a track from the media library, set scope (presentation, slide, or variant) and loop. Useful for pre-service atmospheres or a quiet bed under scripture, and easy to overdo. Prefer silence when the band is live.

Worship and sermon decks

Lyric slides often need more line spacing and less decoration than announcement slides. Keep a worship-oriented theme and a teaching theme rather than forcing one look everywhere. Compose from songs can apply a theme in the wizard so new lyric decks start on-brand.