Present: looks for each screen

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Give the lobby, an overflow room or the stream a look of its own: words on black, no Kids pages, announcements only.

A look says how a screen shows what's live. The projector you run from keeps your theme with everything on it, the Main look. A screen by link, or another window on the booth computer, can wear a look of its own: an overflow room with the words on black and no Kids pages, a foyer TV that keeps to the announcements, the words on your livestream. Looks belong to the church, not to one service, so you make each one once.

Make a look

  1. Open Present, then Settings, then Looks. Your looks are grouped as Livestream, Lobby and Room screens.
  2. Press New look and choose what it's for.
  3. Turn on what it shows: Words: songs, Scripture and the sermon, Background, Logo bug, The message band and, with Kids & Check-In, Kids pages. A lobby look has The info frame too: the time, the date, your logo and a QR code beside the slide, once the info frame is on in Present's Screens settings.
  4. Choose its Size: As the slides, 16:9, 4:3, or Its own for an LED wall.
  5. Press Play a sample to see an announcement, a song with a message, and a Kids page in it, then Save. Unsaved changes shows until you do.

With the words off, a screen shows only announcements, countdowns and giving, and keeps the last one up through the songs and the sermon. Turn on the default switch, and every screen of that kind with no look of its own wears it; under the switch, the editor says how many screen links that changes. Your first livestream or room look starts with the switch on. A lobby look starts with it off, because a lobby link may be showing an overflow room: give it to one link with Wears, or turn the switch on. Until a kind has a default, it wears the look built into PraisePad, marked Built in. A stream look has settings of its own: see words for your livestream.

Remove this look sends the screens wearing it back to the default. A church can keep up to 30 looks.

Give a screen its look

While you run the slides, press Screens and open Share a one-time link. Under each link, Wears offers your looks of its kind once you've made one: a lobby link the lobby's, a livestream link the stream's. The screen changes within a minute, and Undo puts the last one back.

Under Open on this computer, Another screen opens one more window on the booth computer, for a second projector or a TV on a long cable. Choose the room look it wears beside it first, or Main.

Present's Looks page ends with Looks per screen: each screen link still to come, with the look it wears. A paired screen keeps to its job: looks are for screens by link and the windows you open.

Open in PraisePad to try it
There's a short lesson for this in the Tech booth courseThe pastor's screen, and the others · 4 min
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