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Improve your presentation skills: how to make smoother slide transitions in Keynote

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Modern presentation apps like Keynote and PowerPoint still encourage you to think in terms of “slides”: discrete, isolated objects to be presented one after the other, as though we were still using those old  slide projectors to show film-in-square-frames slides. Our audiences may even expect to receive printed or PDF copies of our slides, one tidy image per page.</p><p>
But that metaphor is a relic of an earlier time. Technology has moved on, and you can create far more interesting and appealing presentations if you move beyond the idea of “slides” and adopt a more fluid, seamless approach.</p><p>
The best-known tool for presentations-that-are-not-slides is Prezi (http://www.macworld.com/article/2036845/review-prezi-makes-it-easy-to-create-cinematic-presentations-with-zoom-and-pan-effects.html) (4.0 mice), which gives you a huge canvas on which you place individual elements; you then pan, zoom, and rotate the view to highlight specific items. It’s a neat effect, but I prefer to downplay animations and transitions, not to call extra attention to them.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2458957/improve-your-presentation-skills-how-to-make-smoother-slide-transitions-in-keynote.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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