Create transparent objects completely in Apple Keynote with Instant Alpha [TUTORIAL] 

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You're the only RU-vidr I've clicked the bell for. Always fabulous. Please keep up the great work

That transparency lesson is wonderful! And so fast! It really helps!

Just wow! Keynote is amazing, and so are you for figuring this out for us non-PS people.

I just found your videos this morning and holy sh@t !!! Absolutely valuable, no nonsense information!! THANK YOU!!

Excellent technique 💕

Just to add yet another way of creating the transparent mask, before exporting as an image, you could just exclude the form from format --> arrange --> exclude which just will cut out the form, making the export / import / Instant Alpha shananigans obsolete.

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I was wondering why you have suggested photoshop when it can be achieved in keynote.. good someone asked about it for benefits of others. Also, it helped me to refine my implementation.

I've been using Instant Alpha for years. It's also accessible in the Inspector under Images. I love how you're using it for a mask.

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Great to know on transparency and that too by working within Keynote. Thanks Stephen !

Brilliant!!

Love it - but why not to create a shape to cover the whole background (rectangle), create the shape of the ovals (like the black ones here) - choose the background shape and that oval shape - go to format, arrange and subtract??

The bender in the corner , legendary haha

Love your tutorials. It really helped me a lot. But why didn't you subtract the shapes?

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Thanks. As I don’t have photoshop

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Hi. Great idea. My approach for a circle with a hole in it to highlight part of a slide was to work with a blank slide, superimpose a smaller black circle on a slightly larger red one, then open Preview, opt to Take Screenshot from selection and copy the circles to Preview. Using Markup and instant alpha, make the circle surround plus the inner bit transparent, then export, ensuring that you use PNG format, to the Desktop. Hy presto, a red circle with a hole in the middle. Hope that makes sense.

You approach this so creatively & intelligently too...to make the most of what’s possible and helpful (to being legible/credible) and not wasting time. A cut above other tuition if I may say so! I was thinking I should try & employ someone to make my Keynote ...but now maybe, just maybe I can do it myself! Can you give personal advice or undertake special bits of a project for a fee? (Am in 🇬🇧)

Hi! thank you for posting this tutorial. When creating a custom branded slideshow either for Powerpoint or Google slides, do you suggest creating one on illustrator or photoshop? And if so, is there a way to create the slides so that the elements are editable or should the custom slides be designed only in the native software (Google slides or ppt) Thanks in advance!

Your videos are excellent and have helped me quite a bit recently, so THANK YOU and keep it up! Quick question: Is there any add-on software for Keynote that will allow the presenter to edit the text of a few table cells DURING the presentation? I switched to Keynote from PowerPoint because Keynote has the ability to include tables with formulas, and I (incorrectly) assumed they would be editable while presenting. So now I'm looking into any upgrade software I can buy that will provide this functionality, and I'm having a tough time finding anything. Thanks in advance for any hints you may have!

Hey, I went searching for software to help with my RU-vid channel, settled on learning Keynote at 1am and learned a ton already from you! On the subject of transparency, I feel you missed an even BETTER way: 1. Create your 5 grouped pill shapes, then UNGROUP them all. You'll now have 15 objects that comprise the pills. 2. With them still selected, Unite them to make them all a single object. 3. Create a full size white rectangle and move it to the back. Use the sidebar to get it exactly the right size and position (0,0). 4. Select the two objects you should now have: the background and the "5 pill" object. 5. Choose subtract. This makes a fully vector based overlay object. The big bonus of this is that there's zero issues with alpha edges and the file size will be way less. It will probably perform better, and certainly will scale better. Maybe... you.. better.. make another video. ;)

What about transparent videos? I want to import 3d objects and animate them, but keynote does not support that, so I now export animation from blender and use it as a video in the keynote, but the problem is the background of the video. I need a more reliable and better solution.

Going through ZOOM How can I use keynote as an interactive page where students can write on the slide or move things on the slides?

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Stephen, let me tell you something, few months ago I knew nothing about keynote, thanks for your channel and the others on RU-vid I learn a lot. Now strong statement: I am better than you :) I would never export to jpeg, I would never export to png, no photoshop either, rather extract two objects. Result is still crispy, sharp edges, vectors, easy to modify if needed. Alpha channel use for different purposes, not vector graphics. What do you think?

Lip sync issue after the intro graphics but I'll work it out 👍🏾

Why not use PNG?

Just wondering why you couldn't just subtract those shapes from a rectangle within Keynote?