Keynote for Mac OS X (Visual QuickStart Guide)

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, youll want to start leveraging the power of Keynote immediatelydragging 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 moreand 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. Youll learn how to use Keynotes professionally designed "themes" to create coordinated backgrounds, fonts, colors, bullets, tables, and charts in seconds. And if youre interested in creating a custom look, youll find plenty of instructions for that as well. The best part? You dont need to be a graphics artist to produce visually stunning (and stunningly effective) presentations with Keynote.Tom Negrino is the author of 'Keynote for Mac OS X (Visual QuickStart Guide)', published 2003 under ISBN 9780321197757 and ISBN 0321197755.