Keynote for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide (Visual Quickstart Guides) - Softcover

Negrino, Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0321197755 ISBN 13: 9780321197757

Publisher: Peachpit Press, 2003

Synopsis

Tired of the lackluster graphics and dull, canned look of PowerPoint presentations? At last you have an alternative: Apple Computer's graphics-intensive Keynote presentation software. If you give presentations on a regular basis, you¿ll want to start leveraging the power of Keynote immediately―dragging and dropping graphics, digital photos, QuickTime movies, and audio into your slide shows; creating animations, shadows, and labels for your charts and tables; producing dynamic drop shadows and cinematic transitions between slides; and more―and this Visual QuickStart Guide will show you how.

Veteran presenter, QuickStart author, and Mac guru Tom Negrino makes it easy to dive in and start creating high-impact presentations in no time by providing step-by-step instructions peppered with plenty of screen shots, tips, and sidebars. You¿ll learn how to use Keynote¿s professionally designed "themes" to create coordinated backgrounds, fonts, colors, bullets, tables, and charts in seconds. And if you¿re interested in creating a custom look, you¿ll find plenty of instructions for that as well. The best part? You don¿t need to be a graphics artist to produce visually stunning (and stunningly effective) presentations with Keynote.

About this title

Synopsis

The first task-based guide to Keynote-Apple Computer's new PowerPoint-killer-Keynote for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide gets readers quickly up-to-speed on the powerful presentation software through detailed step-by-step tasks and hundreds of screenshots. Business and educational users will want to start leveraging the power of Apple's graphics-intensive Keynote presentation software ($99) immediately-dragging and dropping graphics, digital photos, QuickTime movies, and audio into their slide shows; creating animations, shadows, and labels for their charts and tables; producing dynamic drop shadows and cinematic transitions between slides; and more-and this Visual QuickStart Guide will show them how. Task-based instructions peppered with plenty of screenshots, tips, and sidebars make it easy to dive in and start creating high-impact presentations in no time. Readers will learn how to use Keynote's professionally designed "themes" to create coordinated backgrounds, fonts, colors, bullets, tables, and charts in seconds. And if they're interested in creating a custom look, they'll find plenty of instructions for that as well.Readers will soon learn that they don't need to be graphic artists to create visually stunning (and stunningly effective) presentations with Keynote-available only for computers running Mac OS X.

About the Author

A veteran presenter who knows the value of a strong presentation, Tom Negrino is the author of Macromedia Contribute for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide and numerous other Visual QuickStart guides, including (with Dori Smith) JavaScript for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide.

About this edition

• Publisher: Peachpit Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0321197755
• ISBN 13: 9780321197757
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288