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David Rivers
Keynote '08 Essential Training
by lynda.com, Inc (CD-ROM)

Training specialist David Rivers teaches viewers how to use Keynote '08 to its full potential, from customizing the interface to editing and sharing professional presentations. He covers how to format text with columns and lists, add links, and insert graphics, photos, and animated effects. David concludes with how to export Keynote files to various formats, including Flash, HTML, MP3, PDF, and hardcopy. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.Topics Include:Customizing the Keynote interfaceCreating and editing slides and presentationsWorking with textInserting shapes and photosWorking with tables and chartsCreating transitions and object buildsSharing presentationsCreating custom themesDuration: 7.25 hoursOn 1 DVD-ROM

Tom Negrino
Creating Keynote Presentations with iWork: Visual QuickProject Guide
by Peachpit Press (Paperback)

With its dazzling transitions, dozens of professionally-designed themes, and wide selection of typefaces, Keynote—Apple's top-notch presentation software—lets anyone create elegant, attractive presentations with ease. Now, to help users deliver high-quality presentations even when they're short on time, is this smart, concise guide designed to take them from standing start to stellar finish with their first presentations. Rather than cover every last option Keynote offers, author Tom Negrino steps readers through on a single, basic presentation, showing them the quickest, easiest, most effective way to communicate their ideas. Each short lesson builds a component of a basic presentation, from creating slides, formatting charts and tables, incorporating sound and video, creating transitions, and adding a bit of polish to their debut presentations. Friendly, step-by-step instructions and large, full-color screen shots make the information instantly accessible.

Tom Negrino
Keynote 2 for Mac OS X (Visual QuickStart Guide)
by Peachpit Press (Paperback)

The first task-based guide to Keynote is back, just in time for the revision of Apple's elegant presentation software, Keynote. Keynote 2 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 ($79, as part of Apple's iWork suite) 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 QuickProject Guide will show them how. Task-based instructions, peppered with plenty of full-color screenshots, tips, and sidebars make it easy to dive in and start creating high-impact presentations in no time. Readers ...

Tom Negrino
Keynote for Mac OS X (Visual QuickStart Guide)
by Peachpit Press (Paperback)

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 ...

Garrick Chow
Keynote 3 Essential Training
by lynda.com, Inc. (CD-ROM)

In Keynote 3 Essential Training, Garrick Chow shows viewers how to use Apple’s robust presentation software to build dynamic and compelling slideshows. Keynote 3 Essential Training teaches presentation tools that will keep audiences engaged, whether in the boardroom, the classroom, or the family room. Garrick begins by exploring the Keynote interface and demonstrating how to create and manage slides. From there he moves on to adding text, graphics, tables, charts, and even audio and video files to slides. Once the slides have been created, Garrick teaches users how to dazzle their audiences with animated transitions and object builds. Additionally, Garrick explains how to create custom templates and how to export presentations in a variety of formats.

Curt Simmons
Absolute Beginner's Guide to Keynote for Mac OS X
by Que (Paperback)

Priced at $99, Keynote is the new application that promises to bring to everyone the ability to create stunning, professional-quality presentations. It includes professionally designed themes, top-end typography, animated charts and tables, and cinematic quality transitions. Keynote has Apple's traditional elegance and ease-of-use, with intuitive controls and beautiful graphics.Keynote 1.0 has been positively reviewed by the press. Though Apple has not yet released any sales figures, it is clear that the software is gaining rapid adoption. According to MacCentral, the company's CFO was saying that its software sales were great, "fueled by the release of iLife, Keynote, and Final Cut Express." The First Looks reviews are just coming out now, but they are undeniably positive.This book shows users how to:Design compelling presentations swiftly, using Keynote's advanced typography, gorgeous charts, and included layout themes.Give a presentation pizzazz by using spiffy visual effects ...

Lisa A. Bucki
Keynote Fast & Easy
by Muska & Lipman/Premier-Trade (Paperback)

Relax. Now you can easily create and deliver impressive presentations using Keynote. Targeting just the skills you need, "Keynote Fast & Easy" offers step-by-step instructions and plenty of screen shots for creating new presentations, importing data, adding special touches like animation and transition effects, and delivering your final slideshow. With "Keynote Fast & Easy" you simply look and learn!

Erik Holsinger
Presenting Keynote: The Insider's Guide to Creating Great Presentations
by Sybex (Paperback)

Unveiled to a cheering crowd at Macworld Expo 2003, Keynote is a new breed of presentation software that allows anyone to create stunning, graphics-rich presentations. At $99, it's an irresistible value. Presenting Keynote is extends well beyond the manual by using case studies to demonstrate professional design and production techniques. With its friendly tone and striking visuals, this book will appeal to presenters, teachers, students, artists, photographers, film and video professionals--anyone who wants to create interactive multimedia materials that look marvelous. The accompanying CD features new themes, examples, and source materials for your presentations, plus trial versions of essential software. This sophisticated book, with its matte cover, coated paper for the interior, and handsome design throughout, is a perfect companion to Apple's sophisticated new software.

Sean Colins
Keynote 2 Essential Training
by lynda.com, Inc. (CD-ROM)

Keynote 2 Essential Training with Sean Colins will help you understand how Apple’s phenomenal presentation software really works. Sean gets into the depths of custom theme creation and shows you how to use just about every tool in the program, as well as several tools in other programs that integrate very well. You are given Web resources for further research, and practice files are included so you can follow along to create a beautiful custom Keynote theme that can be used over and over again. When you feel comfortable creating custom themes, you can come back and watch again, using your own graphics to create your very own professional-looking custom theme. If you thought it was easy to build presentations using what Apple provides out of the box, you’ll be thrilled to see how easy it is to build a unique look using Keynote. In the process of learning these techniques, you’ll become a Keynote pro!

Jennifer Barr Kruger
Pioneers in their field: 2007 DIMA Lifetime Achievement Award winners, Graham Nash and R. Mac Holbert, the DIMA 2007 closing keynote speakers, share the ... - Connecting the Imaging Communities
by Thomson Gale (Digital) (Release Date: 2007-02-28)

This digital document is an article from PMA Magazine - Connecting the Imaging Communities, published by Thomson Gale on February 1, 2007. The length of the article is 1775 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Citation DetailsTitle: Pioneers in their field: 2007 DIMA Lifetime Achievement Award winners, Graham Nash and R. Mac Holbert, the DIMA 2007 closing keynote speakers, share the story of Nash Editions.(Interview)Author: Jennifer Barr KrugerPublication: PMA Magazine - Connecting the Imaging Communities (Magazine/Journal)Date: February 1, 2007Publisher: Thomson GaleVolume: 82 Issue: 2 Page: 24(2)Article Type: InterviewDistributed by Thomson Gale

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