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So I want to show you something really easy that will make your presentations look a lot
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better, and that's the ability to remove the background from any photo
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So you'll notice that this is a presentation that I'm currently working on. It's called How to Teach with Zoom
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And I went online and I was able to find the Zoom logo as well as this photo of a MacBook
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But when I saved the photos, I noticed that the photos came with this white box around them
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So sometimes that might be okay, but in the situation of this presentation, it kind of
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restricts some of the things that I could do in terms of creating a nice visual for
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my opening slide. So fortunately in Keynote, there's a really simple feature called Instant Alpha that will
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allow you to remove any color. In this case, I'm going to want to remove the white color that surrounds this image
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so I have a much cleaner intro slide. So it's super easy to use
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You just take the image that you want, okay? And then you'll want to, when you click on the image, you'll want to move over here to
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the Inspector tab, and you'll want to click on the option that says Image, okay
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And then you're going to choose this option, Instant Alpha, okay? You're going to click Instant Alpha
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And then with this finder or this dropper right here, you're just going to click on
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the color that you want. In this case, it's that white. And you'll notice that it doesn't get everything, so I have to kind of adjust my mouse just
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a little bit. I'm just kind of dragging with my finger on the trackpad to take a little more
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Okay, there I go. I'm going to click Done. Okay, so you'll notice that I have this logo
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For the most part, it's just about taken out. It's not perfect
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I could go back and do it again, but one of the things you'll notice is that the white
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and the O is still there. So all I'm going to do is go back to Instant Alpha
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I'm just going to try that again. There we go. Okay, now that's removed
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You'll also see, like, around the edge, there's just a really thin, thin, a little bit of white
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I'm going to try doing that again. Kind of like that. If that's something that's really going to bother you, you could go back to Instant Alpha
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and kind of try to drag your finger and remove as much of that as possible
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But now that that white is done, I can kind of make my Zoom logo bigger
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I can move my text down so it's right on top, kind of like this
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Lots of different options that I have once I remove that white box
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I'm going to do the same thing to this MacBook as well, because Yolotl said if I do that
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it doesn't quite look right because there's that white border around the MacBook
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So again, to do this, click on the image, move over to the menu, the submenu that says
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image, click Instant Alpha. You can see right there, click color to make it transparent
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I'm just going to click my finger on this one and sort of just drag my finger down
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So it gets closer to the edge. Click done. And there we go
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So now that I have this MacBook, I can just sort of play around with my images
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It gives me a lot more flexibility in how I want to design my cover slide
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It's going to end up looking a lot better. It's something that's really quick, very easy
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And if you use Keynote, it's definitely a feature that you're going to want to try
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Thanks for watching. I'll see you next time.
