Creativity on the Move: Keynote 01

 Hello and welcome to using Keynote 01 Photos on your iPhone and/or iPad for quick, fun and easy scrapbooking and memory-keeping! It can produce pages, either for digital use or to print out, with photos and text (plus sound and video if you wish). Its ease of use makes it a great tool for scrapbooking on the go on a iphone or ipad. Best features?

• you can weave your scrapbooking and memory-keeping into your day, making creative use of little pockets of time

• it saves automatically every thirty seconds, so you can put it down and attend to something else at the drop of a hat, and it will be there ready and waiting when you pick it up again

• pages can be as simple or as complex as you like, using digital scrapbooking elements if you wish

• makes great 'mini-pages' if you want to pop them later into your Project Life-type albums, digital or paper

This is what we're looking at today ...


When you open Keynote, it offers you a series of possible themes. A theme is a design with its own colour swatches and a background paper or two. You don't actually have to stick with these as you will see later in the series. (The one which I've used below to demonstrate is called White and it's the one I use most often).

Here's how Keynote works ...

On the left is the navigation panel, which shows you the slides (pages) you have in your presentation (album). Along the top is the toolbar: just four simple icons with a multitude of functions accessible at a tap. On the screen above in this presentation you are offered a placeholder for the photo and two text boxes, but Keynote is very customisable, as you'll see. Here's an overview of what the icons do ...


There are two ways of adding photos, and the how-to is in the pdf below. We'll be covering the how-to of text and journalling in a later post ...


Photos can also be styled in lots of different ways with a couple of taps - these are only a few of the possibilities ... (More detailed how-tos on the pdf.)

The photo-placeholders which come with Keynote are rectangular and, for those of us who scrapbook, a little unimaginative! So I've created a file for you to download with lots of differently-shaped photo-placeholders which you can use to which you mask your own photos, by copying and pasting the one you want ...

You have two possibilities for downloading the Shaped Masks file below:

• dowmload to your computer, then email it to yourself on your iPad or iPhone. When you open the email and tap the file icon, it will ask you if you want to open it in Keynote, so just tap and it will automatically import.
• If you have Good Reader, you can download it directly to your iPad, tap Manage Files, tap AlexaShapedmasks.key to highlight it, then (in the Manage Files pane) tap Open In ... and choose Keynote. (Quicker to do than it took me to type!).

Here is the pdf. for today, and the shaped masks download:
Download KNAlexa01Photos (pdf)
Download AlexaShapedMasks (key)

Previous posts and files are here:
Creativity on the Move: The Map
Creativity on the Move: Managing Your Photos
Download COTMManagingYourPhotos (pdf)

Hoping that these are useful to you, and that you'll think about having a go. It's a lot of fun!

(For strictly personal use only. No copying, adapting, extracting, re-distributing or selling allowed. All images, files and text are copyright and belong to Alexa, www.simplyalexa.typepad.com/trimmingthesails. All rights reserved.)

Comments

[Abi]

Alexa you have put so much time and work into this! Thank you! The download looks wonderful. x

[Karen Walker]

Thanks, Alexa! I'm wondering if this would work well as a travel journal. I've never found anything that really worked for me while traveling, but I always have my iPad, and now that I have Photo Stream working it seems like it would work well.

[Jennie-Wren]

Thank you so very much for doing this Alexa - i don't do much digi stuff - but what do is thanks to your tips. J x

[Jen Hart]

Oh wow, what a great tutorial. I am eager to start already as your digi/hybrid work always inspires me to a project! Thank you.

[Amy]

My thoughts echo Abi's sentiments - your instructions are clear and thoughtfully laid out and very easy to follow - thank you very much!

[Debs14]

I have never tried digi-scrapbooking before as I don't have photoshop or anything like that on the computer. But ... I do have an ipad! And your instructions are so clear and concise, I feel like I may actually be able to do this. Will I be brave enough to try? Watch this space ...

[Suzanna L]

Now this really is quite a set up you've got here! Thanks for the time and effort you put into educating us.

[sandie]

Wow Alexa... you have a wonderful way of explaining and describing. I have an HTC phone so when I have more time I need to try out some of your ideas and see if I can use some of the downloads you mention. I hoped to be able to do more blogging on the move (ie. during my breaks at work).

[Becky]

I'll be honest and say that I haven't read this properly yet! I intend to print it off and read it a few times to totally get to grips with it over the weekend. You have given us so much information here - thank you!

[Fiona@staring at the sea]

Even though I don't have an iphone, I am finding your series fascinating Alexa. It is truly amazing what you can achieve on the move.

[Melissa]

Very interesting! I've only recently begun to use my iPhone to capture a few photos, and I'm always amazed at how much we can do with these Smart phones.