Master Keynote: 15 Essential Tips

3.2 How to Add Images in Apple Keynote

As the old saying goes, pictures are worth a thousand words. The same can be said for your Key Note presentations. Virtually any slide that will benefit from including images. They help to illustrate points and add interest. And in Key Note they're very easy to add. Of course, the first step is to select the images to add to your presentation. You might have photos of your own to showcase and that's always a great option. But suppose you want to use a series of stock photos in your presentation. You can't simply go online and find random images to add because of copyright concerns. Make sure that you're using photos that you're fully licensed to use. As an embeded elements member you're in luck elements now offers a giant selection of royalty free stock photos to all members. You can download as many as you want and add them to your key note slide. I'm working on a slide here and I want to add two images to it. One of a locomotive and one of a ship. The first step is to choose the photos to add. Lets jump over to elements here and browse to the photo section. Since I know what I'm looking for, I will go ahead and type locomotive up here in the search box at the top. I'll hit Enter, and elements will return hundreds of stunning photos. I'll scroll through a few here and when I find when I like, I'll click on the thumbnail to view it in more detail. When I'm ready to use it, I'll click Download here on the right side and then specify license usage for the photo. This is just a statement of how you plan to use the photo. Even if you stop subscribing to elements in the future, your licenses will still be valid and you can continue using the items you downloaded. When finished, I'll click add and download, and my image selection will download. To get my ship photo, I'll just repeat these same steps and then jump back over to Keynote. The slide I'm working on here already has a built in placeholder for an image on the right side. To use it, I'll click on this photo icon here in the lower right corner. A browse window will open inside of Keynote that I can use to find a downloaded image. I'll navigate to it, and click to insert it onto my slide as you're seeing me do here. Keynote will drop it into the placeholder, now it's time to add the other image I chose. But notice there isn't a built in placeholder for it, no problem, to add it, simply come up here to the Insert tab at the top of the screen. Then click on the Choose menu and browse to insert the photo of your choice. Keynote will add it to the screen. The image will appear in a default location, but Keynote offers a ton of editing options to customize your images. First off, you can resize the image by clicking and pulling on one corner like you see here. I can also move it around the slide just by clicking and dragging it. The Arrange tab in the right sidebar here on the right side offers even more options to edit photos in Keynote. I can align the photo to the left side of the slide by clicking on this Align drop down and selecting Left. Watch as Keynote snaps the photo into left alignment instantly. There are a variety of other options here, including custom sizing selections, rotations, positions, and more. Also, you can crop an image if you only want to use part of it on your slide. To do that, let's jump over to the image tab here on the format sidebar. Then I'll click on the Edit mask button here. You'll see this menu up here with your image. Make sure you're working on the crop option here, and then click and drag on the slider to scale the crop as you're seeing me do here. To focus on a certain area of the image, you can click and drag to alter the alignment, when finished, click done and keynote will lock in the crop, that's it. In a few moments, we've transformed a blank slide into a beautiful side by side image display. Be sure to use images in your next presentation to make it engaging, stylish and effective. Thanks for watching.