Apple iWork 08 Tutorials
Cool Pages Tips / Watermarks and Master Objects
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I want to show you a quick little Pages tip that's closely related to do something that we did in the fourth chapter and that is to create a watermark and what we're dealing with here is either a picture or a shape that you insert. So let's say you insert, I don't know let's just do a star I guess and we'll make it a big star, 8 point is fine, we'll even put some text inside, we'll give it a double click, call it sun, something like that and we'll center it and we'll hit enter a few times so that it's in the center of the, center of that star itself. So any rate, building this thing up and I want to select it, now I'm going to go to the inspector and I'm going to go to the graphic inspector, just combining some things here and let's do the color fill, let's make this purple or something like that. Now what I'm going to do to start make this into a watermark is I'm going to notch down the opacity and this up to you how, how much of a background or how much you want to fade it out, but general rule of thumb is somewhere between 20 and maybe 30 percent opacity if you have something that's very colorful, of course you might want to turn it down even further, but for now I'll just do 25 percent opacity and then I'm going to close the colors and so now I got a graphic with a color fill, some words in it which may not be appropriate, but again I'm going to click off of it so I can select it again, I had the text selected, click it and then make it a little bit bigger now, remember that I can hold down the option key and rotate it if I want to so you can position this thing just the way you want to, if I hold down the Shift key I can make this thing bigger and keep it to scale. If a command key let's me rotate the sun and so I drag it now finally where I want it to reside in the document. I also want to make sure that through the inspector, I want to make sure that my object causes - this doesn't matter so much, but I want to make sure that it's a floating object. Now with the object selected, which you do to finally make it a watermark and probably this is easier in the button clicking then it is to just simply describe. But I can go to the arrange menu and I can send the object to the background, now that goes behind the text itself as you can see. Now the text is right in front of the object and I've got a watermark in my document. Now do I want to go back and adjust the watermark? Yes I do. Not always, once you've got the watermark there you wanted as a watermark. But if you ever want to deal with that watermark again, notice that as I'm clicking around here, I'm selecting text not the watermark. I want to arrange and make the background object selectable and now I give it a click and I can deal with that watermark once again, including, hit the delete key and make it go away.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Apple iWork 08 |
| Author: | Brian Culp |
| SKU: | 33851 |
| ISBN: | 1-934743-50-X |
| Release Date: | 2008-02-07 |
| Duration: | 6.5 hrs / 105 lessons |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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