Presentations Guide

Recommended Setup

For live presentations, you want your cursor to be highly visible without being distracting. Here’s a proven configuration:

1. Enable Spotlight

   Use a gradient glow with a medium-to-large size. Choose a color that contrasts with your slide backgrounds (yellow or white for dark slides, blue for light slides).

2. Enable Click Effects

   Use a ring-style ripple with an Ease Out easing. Keep the duration around 300 ms, long enough to see, short enough to not interfere.

3. Consider Screen Dimming

   If your presentation has busy slides, enable Screen Dimming with a soft circular cutout at 40–60% opacity. This keeps focus on what you’re pointing at.

4. Set up Quick Switch

   Create a “Presentation” profile and a “Minimal” profile. Assign them to Quick Switch slots so you can toggle between full effects and a subtle setup.

5. Test before presenting

   Run through a few slides to make sure the cursor effects look good at the presentation resolution and projector brightness.

Tip

Rehearse with the keyboard shortcuts so you can toggle features on/off without opening the settings window. Your audience will never know.

Projector Tips

• Increase spotlight size: projectors can wash out colors, so use a larger, brighter spotlight.
• Use high-contrast colors: yellow, white, or cyan stand out best.
• Bump up click effect size: the audience is farther from the screen.