All the tools are open to you in Keynote for creating cool things in your collages.īut in this case I just want to go and export it here. You can do Shapes, you can do Quote Bubbles and do funny quote bubbles if somebody is talking in one of the photos. Now when I have something I like, after I've worked with this, there's so many other things you can do. Anything you want to position perfectly you can just use arrow keys to do it one pixel at a time. I can use arrow keys to position this perfectly. Arrange and move both of those, the line and the photo, to the front right there. I can move it up a little bit to create some room for the text. I'll Shift Click to select both of those. So if I grab this, maybe I grab this line here as well. Maybe I can even move this image up here. I can put the text here and I can make the text white so it's nice over the background. Instead of doing it again I'm going to Copy, Command C and Command V to paste and I have a new line where I can drag the edges. Now snapping will work really great again. There's a little line that appears there. But if I click here I can get to all the Tools. You don't see the Shape tool here at the top because there's not enough space. It's undoing the changes here all the way back to where there's no border. Now you can see it but I don't like the white around the top and the bottom and sides.

Let's make it white and make it a little big, 6 points there. Then I could do Format and I could say Align Border. It's exactly what I want and I could be done here. I can kind of position it here to get it like I want. Now it's behind these two even though it's the last one I brought in. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go to Arrange and Send It Back. We can snap it in place but I want it to actually fill the space here. So I will drag this down and snap it to the top left corner there. This one I'm going to have to resize as well. Let's go in here and I'll grab another image and I'll stick it over here. It'll snap to there and I can drag this corner down and it'll snap to that. I actually want to put it here in the upper right hand corner. So I'm just going to grab a corner here and shrink it down. It's going to snap to the width as well which is going to make it huge. Keynote's snapping feature works great here. It's going to size itself to be the exact width of this so I can easily drop it down to the bottom. I don't need this on the left side here so I'm going to drag the line over there and now I have the maximum amount of space here and I can start brining in photos. Now I'm going to, under Zoom, make sure I go to Fit Slide so I actually see the whole slide filling the screen here. So I will put it here on the left and then I will click to choose Photos here on the right. I'm going to click and hold the green button there until I get split screen mode and I can decide if I want Keynote to be on the right or the left. This is a great time to use split screen. Now we have a canvas and we've got photos over here. You probably want to account for margins too but you can go into those details and depending upon the printer and whether you do edge to edge. So now we've got something that's about the size of 8.5 by 11 sheet of paper. If I'm printing to 8.5 by 11 say 300 DPI, so use Spotlight here. Here's where I want to maybe think about what I'm doing.

So I want to go to Document and then there's Slide Size and I can set it to Custom Slide Size. You want to make sure it's something pretty big. Just like if you were creating something in PhotoShop, you wouldn't want to create something small and then shrink a bunch of images into it. Now I want to set the document to be the right number of pixels. I'm going to just choose Standard White background right now and go into it and get rid of these two pieces of text here. Now this is something I may want to print so I want to have a white background. So let's create a new document in Keynote. So here I have Photos open and I have some photos that I'm going to want to put into a collage. Since you have all these great graphics tools you can make really interesting collages with it and you can do it very quickly. You can use it to make a single slide that's a collage of photos. But you don't have to make a presentation with it. It's called Keynote! It's the presentation app that you use. But you actually have a great app for making collages. You can use a graphics app like PhotoShop to do it or something like that. There's some basic functionality in Photos. There are various different ways to do it. Video Transcript: So let's say you want to make a photo collage. Check out Creating a Photo Collage In Keynote at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.

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