Remove picture from slide master in a slide layout

Usually you want a background picture to appear on every slide layout. So you apply the picture to the top slide master.

But what if you do not want the picture to appear on one of more of the slide layouts?

In that case select the slide layout in question and click the Hide background graphics checkbox in the background group.

This works perfectly when you inserted the picture directly onto the master using Insert - Picture.

If you apply the picture directly to the background using the Format background dialog as shown below this will not work. In a next entry we will explore how to overcome that problem.