Presentations Guide

This guide sets up FriskyMouse so your audience can follow the cursor and see every click during a live presentation, and so you can switch between setups without opening the settings window.

Before you start: install FriskyMouse and connect the display or projector you will present on.

Set up your presentation profile

1. Turn on Spotlight

   Choose a soft glow style, such as Two-Color Gradient, and a medium-to-large size. Pick a color that contrasts with your slide backgrounds: yellow or white for dark slides, blue for light slides.

2. Turn on Click Effects

   Choose a simple profile, such as Circle, with the Cubic Out easing. A duration of about 300 ms is long enough to see without getting in the way.

3. Turn on Screen Dimming for busy slides

   If your slides are busy, turn on Screen Dimming with a circular Spotlight Shape, some Edge Softness, and a Dimming Opacity (%) of 40 to 60. The area around the cursor stays bright and the rest of the screen darkens.

4. Set up Quick Switch

   Save these settings as a “Presentation” profile, and save a second “Minimal” profile with fewer effects. Assign both to Quick Switch slots so you can move between them with a shortcut. See Profiles.

5. Test on the presentation display

   Run through a few slides at the presentation resolution. Check that the cursor effects are visible at the projector’s brightness.

You now have a presentation profile and a minimal profile, and you can switch between them with a Quick Switch shortcut.

Tip

Practice the feature shortcuts before you present, so you can turn effects on and off without opening the settings window. See Keyboard shortcuts.

Projector tips

• Increase the spotlight size: projectors can wash out colors, so use a larger, brighter spotlight.
• Use high-contrast colors: yellow, white, and cyan stand out best.
• Increase the click effect size: the audience sits farther from the screen than you do.