Background in Keynote

Dear all, I just migrated from powerpoint 04 into keynote 08 to create my presentations.
very nice animation in keynote, however, I couldn't find how to change the background of the slides.
Each time i have to import the image which I want to use as background, send to back, and resize it myself. Is there a more convenient way to use a image as the background of the slides?
Thanks

If you apply the changes to the Master Slides, then each time you use that slide, you won't have to re-apply the background. If you instead want to change the background for ALL slides...
Then you'll do it in the above tab of the inspector. Just click on "Color Fill", set the Fill to "Image" and then choose the image.

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