Keynote for iPad
–Animating Photos on a Slide Part 6
Tuesday, June 29, 2010 Filed in:
Apple
Did you miss part 5? Keynote for iPad –
Animate a Chart, Graph, or Table on a
Slide
Animating photos on a slide is an easy process
with Keynote. There are two major approaches you
can employ. You can use builds to add or remove
elements from a slide. You can also use the Magic
Move transition to create more elaborate
animations.
Let's explore the build process.
1. Tap the animate button . Keynote prompts you
to select a slide or object.
2. Tap a photo on the Canvas that you want to
animate.
Buttons appear near the object, indicating any
build effect that has already been applied. If no
build effect has been applied, both the build in
and build out buttons are labeled
“None.”
Design Tip
Be
sure your photos are high enough resolution.
You'll typically want to size them so they are
double the size of your design canvas. For
Keynote on the iPad, make sure your pictures are
at between 2,000–4,000 pixels wide. This
will give you flexibility to size or zoom an
image.
3. You can now choose to add an effect that
reveals (build in) or removes (build out) the
chart. Tap the “Build in” or
“Build out” button, depending on how
you'd like the chart to move onto or off of the
slide. The Build In or Build Out window appears.
4. Tap the name of an effect from the Build In or
Build Out window. You can scroll to choose from
any of 13 effects for chart or graph builds.
Once you choose an effect,
a preview animation plays automatically. You
can click the play button in the Build In or
Build Out window to repeat the preview.
5. Once you've selected an animation in the Build
In or Build Out window, you can customize it.
- To change the
duration of a build, tap the Options button at
the bottom of the Build In or Build Out window.
You can then drag the duration slider to adjust
the speed of the animation.
• Many effects in the Build In window
have additional options such as direction or Up
and Down choices.
• To specify when a build starts, tap the
Options button at the bottom of the Build In or
Build Out window. On Tap begins the animation
when you tap the slide. After Transition lets you
set a time interval with the Delay slider.You may
need to scroll in the window to see all options.
Changing the Order of Builds
As you add multiple builds to a
slide, you'll notice that they have numbers that
indicate their build order on the slide. The
build in numbers are yellow and the build out
numbers are black.
The default numbering is based on the order that
you added the animations. You have complete
control however and can reorder things, as you
like.
- Select any
object on the canvas that you've applied a
build to.
2 Tap the animate button in the toolbar.
3 Tap an existing Build In or Build Out button.
4 In the Build In or Build Out window, tap the
Order button. The numbers on the slide and in
the window indicate the order of animation.
5 In the Build Order window, touch and hold the
right end of an item. You can now drag it to a
new position.
If you see three yellow-colored dots on the
upper-right corner of a slide thumbnail (in the
slide navigator) it means that a build has been
applied to a slide.
Interleaving Builds
In Keynote, you can interleave animation
elements, so that multiple events take place
concurrently. For example, you can have a block
of text and a photo animate concurrently. You can
change the order in which objects move on and off
a slide at any time, even interspersing
In order to interleave a build, you must have
more than one Build animation applied.
- Select any
object on the canvas that you've applied a
build to.
2 Tap the animate button in the toolbar.
3 Tap an existing Build In or Build Out button.
4 In the Build In or Build Out window, tap the
Options button.
5 Choose one of the following options to link
two animations together.
- With Build
# – Let's two builds happen at
the same time. You can also set a delay for the
second object with the Delay slider.
• After Build
# – Let's you create a
hierarchical relationship. One build occurs
immediately after the other finishes. Again,
you can set a delay for the second object with
the Delay slider.
To preview the animation, click the Play button
in the Build In or Build Out window.
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