fakufaku / beamerthemelausanne

A beamer theme with full screen background images for main and section titles.

Beamer Lausanne Theme

This is a beamer theme whose main features is to display full-screen images in the background of the main and sections title slides. The section title images can be reused in a smaller format in the conclusion slide of the section. Images can also be omitted for some or all sections.

A class of semi-transparent boxes is also defined to be able to read text clearly over the rich graphical background of the titles.

There are a few other things like built-in checks/crosses list item markers. Section titles can be turned off and the theme main color changed using the usual commands.

Author

Robin Scheibler

Example

Here is an example demonstrating most features. The pdf generated is here

\documentclass{beamer}

% Load encoding and computer modern fonts
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}

% The presentation meta information
\title{The Lausanne Beamer Theme}
\subtitle{With Beautiful Images}
\date{\today}
\author{Robin Scheibler}
\institute{School of Computer and Communication Sciences\\%
\'Ecole Polytechnique F\'ed\'erale de Lausanne, Switzerland}
\logo{\includegraphics[height=0.5cm]{figures/LCAV}}
\titlegraphic{figures/climber}  % This is the source for the title background image

% Load the theme
\usetheme{lausanne}

% To remove the section title frames, uncomment
% AtBeginSection[]{}

% The color of the theme can be changed like this
%\usecolortheme[named=red]{structure}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
\titlepage
\end{frame}

\section*{Introduction}

\begin{frame}{Introduction}
  This is an example to use the \texttt{lausanne} beamer theme that I based on my recent presentations. 
  Enjoy\footnote{This is a starred section. Starred sections do not have a title page.} \smiley

  \begin{flushright}
    --- Robin
  \end{flushright}
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}{Outline}
  \tableofcontents
\end{frame}

\section[short=Examples,image=figures/lighthouse]{A Couple of Examples}

\begin{frame}{What can we do ?}
  A great theme
  \begin{itemize}
    \item Beautiful full frame image
    \item Title and section title frames
    \item Semi-transparent boxes
    \item Take home message slides
    \item We can use plain bullets
    \citem or maybe check marks!
    \xitem or cross marks!
    \smileyitem or a smiley!
  \end{itemize}
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}{Changing a few things}
  \begin{itemize}
    \item The dominant color can be changed by adding in the preamble
      \begin{center}
        \texttt{{\textbackslash}usecolortheme[named=<colorname>]\{structure\}}
      \end{center}
    \item To remove the section titles, add
      \begin{center}
        \texttt{AtBeginSection[]\{\}}
      \end{center}
  \end{itemize}
\end{frame}

\begin{fullframe}{figures/pyramic_large}
  \begin{tcolorbox}
    \huge \centering Beautiful full frame images

    \normalsize Semi-transparent boxes can be used to add text on top of images
  \end{tcolorbox}
\end{fullframe}

\begin{takehome}
  \begin{itemize}
    \item Possible to create \alert{take home message} with matching image
    \item An amazing journey
    \item Latex is a bitch
  \end{itemize}
\end{takehome}

\section{A Normal Section}

\begin{frame}{Sections without images}
  \begin{itemize}
    \item It is also possible to do sections without images.
  \end{itemize}
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}{Some great math}
  We keep math in serif font, because it looks familiar
  \begin{equation*}
    e^{i\pi} + 1 = 0
  \end{equation*}
\end{frame}

\end{document}

License

2017-2018 (c) Robin Scheibler

The theme is licensed under MIT license as described in the LICENSE file.