Object Properties / Size and Position (Scaling) and Guides
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Guides can be very, very powerful. Here, I have a theme, and here it is right there. It's really a nice color. This is the theme that I'm using. First thing I'm going to do is get rid of this text box. Then, show the rulers. And now I want to position guides. You always want to position your guides in a grid like format, and you can pull some guides off from the left side as well. Now, what we are going to do is import some graphics. Now that we have these guides, I import the frame, shrink the frame down, position it just right. You can use your arrow keys on your keyboard, and now we have to put a picture on the frame. So let's go ahead and lock this into place, and pour our picture. There's our photo - you need to scale it down and constrain the proportions, place it over a frame and send it to back. Now that we have sent it back, we can go ahead and scale it down a little bit more - get it inside the frame. Now we'll go ahead and lock the picture in place as well. Let's bring in some more elements. Let's type some text here. And it's wonderful that, how guides can help you arrange everything that's necessary. 'Walking in the park' - move that over, see how the guides allow you to line it up just right, and knock it into place. Let's go ahead and bring another graphic in. There's our little movie. Now, it is about a good time to scale this QuickTime movie down. Let's scale it down even more. And we have to position it, scale this even more. There we go, scale it just right, and position it. Let's add some more text. We'll place this next to the sunset picture, 'The dog at the beach'. I'm feeling kind of patriotic at this moment. I would like to bring something in very special. We have our little logo. It's time to bring in that special object. Let's save our project. Use underscores instead of spaces: it's proper file naming. Now we save the project. And now that special graphic that I would like to place for you the audience. And here's the image library. I'm opening up flags, copying my special graphic. And I'm going to paste it in this document and resize it. And there we go. ent and resize it. And there we go.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Keynote |
| Author: | Mario Leone |
| SKU: | 33421 |
| ISBN: | 193207225X |
| Release Date: | 2003-05-15 |
| Duration: | 6 hrs / 103 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | For Online University members only |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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