Good point summing it up at the end about re-using the "template" of the mask by inserting a different image. Seems obvious, yet easily forgotten point that can save time. Thanks, Gary
Gary, you surprise with all these tips...thinking out of the box! Come on, who would ever think of an app to write (pages) to edit images ! Wonderful video. Thanks.
Dang! I just spent a couple of hours trying to learn how to add text with a border to a photo in PS Elements to put on a friend's social media for their birthday. This would have been so much easier!
Cool stuff, Gary! Thanks! I do some video editing in FCPX, and sometimes it's easier to do things in Keynote, then export the slide and incorporate into FCPX. These tips can be real timesavers, or allow me to do things I couldn't otherwise figure out.
I wish they had some kind of one click auto mask. 90% of the time, I'm working with images that have a white background and I'm cropping to the main object.
Once you created the Masked Image can you export it I assume but, will it look like the mask with the image behind it. Does that sound like a silly question? Just curious and have not tried it YET. I can see opportunities for that though.
You can't import, but you can draw or alter existing shapes, or combine them in various ways. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--YCb_2xWMRQ.html
When you put a photo as an image fill to use in a word typed in Keynote, is there a way to move the photo around once it's placed so you can get what you want in the letters you have typed?
Not easily. You'd need two copies of the image, one masked and the other not, but with lower opacity. Or, you could make the image look like what you want in Preview or another image editing app first, then import that in.
