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Working with Media / Drawing an Object

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Take your Inspector out. And make sure you choose graphic in the Inspector, and we have a new slide, and we are using our pet show slide show, and we're going to make a rectangle. Here's our rectangle. We can choose a gradient, and we can click the color well and choose some colored crayons, or we can use the RGB sliders. And we could control the angle of our gradient, as well as flip flopping the gradient. And we can control the strokes. We can increase the thickness in pixels. We can click the shadow and have a shadow, and we will use the RGB sliders to make more of a red shadow. If we click the magnifying glass, we can sample a color from what we have already, and we can control the opacity. If, we hold down the Alt key, you can Alt drag copy. Now, we'll choose the line. We're going to go ahead and position our line and connect the 2 rectangles. Go ahead and connect the corners, the top left corners of our rectangle and we can increase the thickness. Now, we could select this line, and if you hold down Alt, it'll make a copy of course. But, if you want to constrain the line to a straight line, hold down Alt and Shift and drag. And Shift will keep it in a straight line. It'll be moving in a straight direction, and you can repeat the process. Alt and then click Shift right away. Alt first, then Shift about 2 seconds later and that will keep it in a straight direction. You could add a shadow to each line, just by checking off shadow for that particular object. Now, we can marquee all our shapes, and we can change our fill, and we can drag and drop the color on our shapes. Here, we drag and drop, and we could control the stroke thickness or the line style - and get some fancy results. And there's your gradient, and that's pretty much it. and that's pretty much it.

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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