Accessing textures in Keynote

I'm posting the following message in a couple of places since I think there are a few of us wondering about this:

Here's a -relatively- quick way to access all those 3D charts textures (wood, metal, etc) mentioned in the Keynote documentation, without creating a new theme each time:
- Select the Keynote application icon in the Finder.
- Right-click (or control-click) and select "Show Package Contents".
- Navigate to "contents/ressources/themes".
- you now have a list of every theme available in Keynote
- Right-click (or control-click) on a theme and select "Show Package Contents".
- Find the textures (tiff files) and COPY them to a folder on your desktop (I named mine "Keynote Textures").
- Do this with all the remaining themes.

You'll end up with with a folder containing every texture (or image) available in Keynote, so the next time you're editing a 3D chart (or anything else needing a fill), simply select "image fill" from the Inspector and choose one of the textures from this folder. If you use column view in the dialog box you'll even get a nice preview. IMPORTANT: be sure to COPY the files and NOT MOVE them as this would either break the application or the themes.

Hope this helps everyone.

Powerbook G4, Mac OS X (10.4.4)

Posted on Feb 4, 2006 8:22 AM

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Mar 7, 2006 11:26 PM in response to Jade Leary

IMPORTANT: be sure to COPY the files and NOT MOVE them as
this would either break the application or the themes


One way to avoid accidentally moving them is to drag the subject TIFFs into an iPhoto Library dedicated to your Keynote bits.

Several added benefits...
• When you drag a batch of textures to the Albums pane, an album is automatically created with those textures.
• Textures from different themes can be temporarily assembled into a single album for convenient access.
• Export options for resizing or exporting as TIFF or PNG (... or even JPG -- OK, I don't know why you'd want to, but you can)

Mar 8, 2006 11:57 AM in response to Jade Leary

I'm also wondering if iPhoto might not be a place to conveniently store photo masks... make a duplicate TIFF or PNG image in iPhoto; open it in an external editor; make your cutout and apply transparency.

If I get a chance, I'm going to play around with that idea this weekend to make sure one doesn't accidently destroy one's iPhoto database with an inadvertent save to the iPhoto Library folder in the process -- that would kinda' defeat the "convenience" aspect.

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