Apple iWork 08 Tutorials
Create Dynamic Presentations / Add a Picture
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Alright. In an earlier module, I chastised you, I admonished you, I warned you not to make your slides a Pages document. Don't make slides documents. Let your documents be documents. And one of the ways that you'll help to make your slides backdrops to your presentation and, of course, there's lots of different uses for slideshow presentations so this doesn't effect every presentation, but one of the ways that you'll do that is you'll include lots of pictures in your presentation and if you can add text, as we've seen earlier, you can probably add pictures just as easily. It's really the same skill set. All you do is you select and if you hover, as you saw there, the screen tip or the tool tip says this image is a placeholder. Drag the media here to replace it. Easy enough. So you don't actually in this theme of Sedona, this one happens to be Sedona, you don't have to use a picture of a dude riding a bike with the shaved legs and all that stuff. So you can use other stuff. Probably you knew that already. But let's select it first and then how do we drag a new media file to replace it? Well, there's a couple different things you can do. One of the things you can do is that you can use the finder and so I've already kind of prepped this already so if you don't want a picture of that guy riding a bike, how about a picture of me riding a bike? So, all you have to do is click and drag and place a new media file there. Now, what's really cool, the good-looking one on the left there, but that's my brother and sister and I getting ready to do the MS150 and so any rate, what's really cool about this is that you can select the text, and by the way, that's still a placeholder. You can drag new media there if you want to, you can make the picture bigger if you want to by expanding the little pole handles on either side. You can also zoom in. This is what I really like and you can edit the mask and so if you want to zoom in, you can do just like that. So a lot of the times in iPhoto or something like that, you'll crop photos and try to get the picture just right. You don't even have to worry about that. You just drag what you want and then kind of do your editing on the fly in the slideshow presentation itself. So that's one way that you can certainly put a picture into your presentation. Another way, besides using the finder, you can use the media inspector and the media inspector, the media palette and you'd probably see this on a button on your toolbar here. You won't have to click the chevron. But this lets you browse through your media, your audio, your photos and movies. In this case we're adding pictures to the presentation so there's another way you can do it. We can, no, of course, if you have a lot of pictures, it's best if you have them organized pretty effectively so that you can find what you're looking for. Otherwise, you'll be scrolling through a huge list of stuff. But if you've got one, let's see, Raiders baseball and your creating an end-of-year presentation and you want to see a picture not of me riding a bike, but of me coaching Little League baseball, there you go. So lots of cool stuff that you can quickly add to your presentation, select and again, you can zoom in if you don't like the cut of the photo or you can make the picture bigger, smaller, whatever best suits your needs. The last thing that you can do to add a picture to a presentation is you can use the insert menu and all you have to do here is choose. So when you click on choose, now you bring up the finder once again and you can browse through your pictures and add whatever file you want to that item. So select this, insert, choose, but again, that's a little unwieldy. Why not use the tools that make it very, very easy, drag and drop efficiency. I think this media inspector is the one you're probably going to pick as your favorite.
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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