[Tex/LaTex] How to add a background to every page except the first

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I want to make a company letterhead in LaTeX (example output here), and I did it using fancyhdr and absolute positioning, which, while horrible, worked fine so far.

I must have updated XeLaTeX, because now every page after the second is broken. It used to give me warnings about badboxes, but everything worked fine. I think the badboxes were because the "background" image was really in the foreground, and the text was just forcefully positioned over it.

What I want to do is:

Create a title page with \maketitle that doesn't include a background image.
Include a background image on every other page.
Create a "back cover" page (using \makeback) that doesn't include the background image.

I tried the wallpaper package, but it can only set a wallpaper on every page. I tried the xwatermark package, but it complains about something called undefined name grey!55, which I have no idea about. How can I accomplish what I need?

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If you start your document with the title on page 1, the following is enough:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{eso-pic}
\usepackage{ifthen}

\title{foobar}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\AddToShipoutPictureBG{\ifthenelse{\isodd{\value{page}}}{}{\includegraphics{backgroundimage.pdf}}}
\lipsum[1-30]
\end{document}

I don't know about the \makeback macro, so I can't tell you anything about that.

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Try with this beamerthemeNewBrunswick.sty file; the idea is to use the TikZ package to add the background image at an absolute position; of course, using several nodes you can add several images; for example, defining beamerthemeNewBrunswick.sty in the following way:

\RequirePackage{tikz}

\setbeamercolor{titlelike}{fg=white}
\setbeamercolor{title page}{fg=white}
\setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{}
\setbeamerfont{title page}{family=\rmfamily}
\addtobeamertemplate{title page}{\vspace{3\baselineskip}}{}

\addtobeamertemplate{title page}{%
\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay] 
  \node [xshift=0cm,yshift=0cm] at (current page.center)
  {\includegraphics[width=\paperwidth, height=\paperheight]{rutgersTitle}};             
  \node [xshift=0cm,yshift=0cm] at (1cm,-0.7\paperheight)
  {\includegraphics[width=3cm]{tigre}};             
\end{tikzpicture}%
}{}


\RequirePackage{textpos}

\setbeamercolor{title}{fg=white}
\setbeamercolor{subtitle}{fg=white}
\setbeamercolor{author}{fg=white}
\setbeamercolor{institute}{fg=white}
\setbeamercolor{date}{fg=white}
\setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{}
\setbeamerfont{title page}{family=\rmfamily}

\addtobeamertemplate{title page}{%
\begin{textblock*}{\paperwidth}(-2.6em,-1.6em)
\includegraphics[width=\paperwidth, height=\paperheight]{tigre} 
\end{textblock*}%
\begin{textblock*}{2cm}(0cm,6cm)
\includegraphics[width=2cm]{tigre} 
\end{textblock*}
}{}

and using the following .tex file:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usetheme{NewBrunswick}

\title{This Is A Long Descriptive Title Describing How Much Easier It Would Be To
        Study \LaTeX{} And Not Hypersonics}
\author{Someone Other Than Till Tantau}
\institute[MAE]{Fake Degree Candidate \and
                    Mechanical \& Aerospace Engineering}
\date{A Long, Long, Time Ago}

\begin{document}

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

\end{document}

you'll get

enter image description here

[Tex/LaTex] How to set background colour for a whole column in beamer

Based on your "half-way" solution, putting the logo column first moves the logo to the left side, like you wanted. Also, placing \vline inside the column environment eliminates the space before the line. It may not be elegant, but hopefully this is what you had in mind. Note that with this approach the height of the logo determines the height of the headline.

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage[size=a2, orientation=landscape]{beamerposter}
\usepackage{mwe}
\setbeamercolor{separation line}{bg=black}
\setbeamercolor{headline}{bg=white}
\setbeamercolor*{example header}{fg=black}

% ----------- Global Background -------------
\usebackgroundtemplate{%
    \includegraphics[width=\paperwidth,height=\paperheight]{example-image}%
}

% ----------------- Headline ------------------
\setbeamertemplate{headline}{%
\begin{columns}
\begin{column}{0.2\paperwidth}
\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=0.99\linewidth]{headline}
    \vfill
    \centering
    \includegraphics[height=9cm]{example-image-golden-upright}
    \vfill
    \end{beamercolorbox}
\vline
\end{column}%

\begin{column}{0.6\textwidth}
\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.6\paperwidth]{example header}
    \centering
    \usebeamercolor{title in headline}{\color{fg}\textbf{\Huge{\inserttitle}\\[1ex]}}
    \usebeamercolor{author in headline}{\color{fg}{\huge{\insertauthor}\\[1ex]}}
    \usebeamercolor{institute in headline}{\color{fg}{\LARGE{\insertinstitute}\\[1ex]}}
\end{beamercolorbox}
\end{column}

\begin{column}{0.2\textwidth}
\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=0.2\paperwidth]{example header}
\end{beamercolorbox}
\end{column}
\end{columns}

\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=\paperwidth]{lower separation line head}
    \rule{0pt}{2pt}
\end{beamercolorbox}
}
\title{Title}
\author{Author}
\institute{Institute}

\begin{document}
This is some text.
\end{document}

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