// we create the first slide
XSLFSlide slide = ppt.createSlide(layout);
XSLFTextShape title = slide.getPlaceholder(0);
// we remove the predefined text
title.clearText();

// we create a new paragraph
XSLFTextParagraph p = title.addNewTextParagraph();
XSLFTextRun r = p.addNewTextRun();
r.setText("Making Money Online Digest");
r.setFontColor(Color.decode("#c62828"));
r.setFontSize(50.);

// We add an image from resources in the PPTX
InputStream is = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("makingmoneyonline_banner_750.png");
byte[] pd = IOUtils.toByteArray(is);

XSLFPictureData pictureData = ppt.addPicture(pd, PictureData.PictureType.PNG);
// we define the position for the data
XSLFPictureShape pictureShape = slide.createPicture(pictureData);
pictureShape.setAnchor(new Rectangle(20,180,680,188));