Apple iWork 08 Tutorials
Cool Pages Tips / Mask with a Shape
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Here's a cool little trick that we'll combine a couple of the skills that we've learned earlier and what's more the technique that you see here you can pour it to your Numbers, Spreadsheets or your presentations that you make with Keynotes and use this in a slide as well as a document and that is you can mask an object with a shape. And specifically here, typically you will do this with a graphic. So if you go and first insert a graphic or a picture into your document so I'll just click and drag this over into the document. I'll choose this picture, cute kid there and so I can resize this as I want to. Remember it can be inline or a floating object, I can just resize it here, put it in the center using the alignment guides here and now to mask this with a shape I will choose the format menu and I'll come down here, mask with shape. Now if I choose mask it'll look like that, but I'll just undo that. If I choose mask with shape, I can choose an oval, a triangle, a round rectangle and so on and so, there's my oval which looks more like a circle until I start to drag and reshape this thing using either the corners or the middle of it to make it bigger, smaller etcerta. I can also use the hand to click and drag the picture around and kind of center it into the object itself. So if I select, if I give it a double click, I just select the object, I can move this around up here. I can edit the mask here with the object selected and then I can resize the shape of that mask with the hand tool, I can reposition it if I want to, something like that, then if I click elsewhere there it is and I can click and move this thing around wherever I please, going back and editing the mask if I want to by clicking that. Because this is context sensitive, I can even use zoom to zoom in and out of the picture. So there we go, that's how you mask with a shape, just a quick little trick here to give you a few more options with your pictures.
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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