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Changing Object Properties
If you really want to take your creativity to the next level, Keynote is the tool for you. With
the design support of Keynote’s themes and the robust graphics of Mac OS X, you can get
just as much flexibility as you want to work with. This chapter describes more advanced
features for manipulating graphics and other objects in your presentation.
You can directly manipulate object properties such as color, line style and thickness, shadow,
opacity, and orientation using the inspectors and the Fonts and Colors windows, as described
in the following sections.
Using Color and Image Fills
You can create interesting effects with color in Keynote. Objects that you draw using the
drawing tools can be filled with solid colors, color gradients, or even with an image, such as a
photo or other graphic, that you drag in from the Finder or from iPhoto. You can also adjust
the opacity of an object. Giving an object a lower opacity makes it more transparent. You can
even use these fill and opacity effects to enhance charts by selecting an individual bar or pie
wedge in the chart and then selecting the desired effect.