Hi, I'm Tricia Feiglstad, and I want to show you how you can use Keynote on your Apple
computer to make animals, objects out of shapes that you group together and fill with images
to create textures or patterns.
So here's what I'm talking about.
See, my little sock monkey is an image that was created out of shapes put together, shadows
added, textures placed into each of the shapes from my image folder.
Now this requires a few tools that you might not be familiar with in Keynote.
So let's take a look, for example, at the sock monkey.
This is made out of a bunch of shapes.
You can see they're all just pieced together, and some are photos, like this is a little
pom-pom photo, added on, but it could have been just a regular circle, added on.
So everything here is just shape, and then shape can also have an image fill, which is
a choice, and then you can drop in a photo of any kind of fabric or texture that you
can find.
Then you can group the entire thing by selecting it all, and it becomes an object then that
you can add to anything or just be considered an art image that you created.
Here's a little shape that I made the same way, and I'm going to show you how I made
something like this bird.
So to get started, under the shape tab, I can use pre-created shapes, like a circle.
And the circle would be a great way to start with, or a shape to start with, for the head
on this particular bird.
When I select it, I'm going to go over to this inspector and make some decisions about
the line, and color of the line, and the thickness of the line, and then the fill of the shape.
I'm going to choose an image fill, and it's lure of fabrics, and so I can take whichever
image I want, and stick it in here, and that will fill the object, and I can change it
at any time.
So let's say I want to create this unusual shape, the body of the bird.
What I would do is I'd choose the draw with pen, and when I start, I don't have to be
very accurate.
I just have to think about points to get started.
Let's say this is going to start me out on the shape, and I had to close the shape by
touching all the points back together where I start.
I'm going to choose a line, make sure it's the same kind of line I had before for continuity.
I'm going to use image fill, and it'll remember my last one.
So I'm going to now reshape this, so it has a rounded curve like the bird I had designed
before.
So I'm going to double click on this point, and it automatically becomes a curve line,
but I'm going to adjust it, and, let's see, what if I double clicked on that one?
Yeah, that's a little nicer.
Pull it out, whoops, there we go, pull this out and reshape it, whoops, what did I do?
Okay, so you get the idea, I'm drawing with a shape, basically, I'm designing the shape,
and then I could also add a shadow to the shape, I could change the blur and the offset
and the opacity, I could do something on all of my shapes, I could have shadows, I could
decide on my shadows later, now I need this shape to go behind, so I just need to make
sure I use the arrange tab, and choose the back, and that's how I get started.
I also added a real photo of a button, I used some just basic lines, lines could be, see
those are dotted, like I could use this for a line for those legs, and then just make
it any color that I want, I could make it any thickness that I want, whoops, there we
get this, so thickness, and then place it behind, you're going to also want to think
about the duplicate button, duplicate button saves so much time, so there's no button,
this shortcut would be apple, c, apple, v for copy and paste, and then there's also apple
d for duplicate, so you can do those, you can resize them, you can get one the right
size, and then just duplicate it, and flip it, and then you don't have to worry if it's
the right size or not, let me see if this flip works, yep, and then stick it in there,
and then just click and delete that one, alright so this is the idea, once I get one
of these feathers I would duplicate it, and add it again, and do the same for the tail,
so let's go back and take a look at this sheet, that body, if I double click on it,
and get the, there it is, see all those points, those points were created originally when
I made a shape with a tool like this, and I just thought okay, sheep, lots of ups and
downs, so they started like zigzags up and downs, right, and then I double click on those
points and they become curves, and I can always delete these points if I don't like
them, like if one of these points I didn't want I can click and hit delete, and if I
want to tug it over further up or higher I can double click on it and it becomes a curve,
I can squish that curve anywhere I want, so this tool in Keynote, go ahead and use it
as a drawing tool, give your students more options for how to create, and these creations
made with the drawing tools in Keynote are also transferable in that you can copy it
and paste it into any Apple document, just put it in your clipboard and stick it in a
presentation in numbers, put it in a layout in pages, I think some of these same tools
are in pages as well, okay, so have some fun.
