Placing Images Within Objects

In a similar manner to color and gradient fills, you can fill shapes in Keynote with images. You can use any kind of image that Keynote can import.

A new addition to Keynote 2 is the tinted image fill , which overlays a color tint on the image fill (for example, you could overlay a sepia tint to a photograph).

To fill a shape with an image

1.	Display the Graphic Inspector.
2.	Select the shape you want to fill.
3.	In the Fill section of the Graphic Inspector, choose Image Fill from the pop-up menu ( Figure 5.37 ). Figure 5.37. When you choose Image Fill, you can see a preview of the image in the image well. By default, the shape will be filled with one of the Keynote file's chart patterns.
4.	To pick an image for the fill, do one of the following: Drag an image from the Media browser window into the image well in the Fill section of the Graphic Inspector. Click the Choose button. An Open dialog appears; navigate to the image you want and click Open . Drag an image from the Finder into the image well in the Fill section of the Graphic Inspector. The image fills the shape ( Figure 5.38 ). Figure 5.38. The image of the tiger fits neatly into the shape, because the Scale to Fill option was chosen from the Size pop-up menu.
5.	Choose from the Size pop-up menu to set the way the image fills the shape. See the "Image Fill Options" sidebar for more information.

To fill a shape with a tinted image

1.	Display the Graphic Inspector.
2.	Select the shape you want to fill.
3.	In the Fill section of the Graphic Inspector, choose Tinted Image Fill from the pop-up menu ( Figure 5.39 ). Figure 5.39. Use the Tinted Image Fill to add interesting color overlays to standard image fills.
4.	Add an image to the fill, using one of the techniques in Step 4 of the previous task. The image fills the shape.
5.	Choose a tint for the image by clicking the color tint well, which opens the Colors window.
6.	Set the color and opacity of the tint using the controls in the Colors window ( Figure 5.40 ). Figure 5.40. This shape was filled with an image of my cat (top), then turned into a tinted image fill (bottom) by changing the pop-up menu in the Graphic Inspector. The tint takes on the color you set. By changing the opacity of the tint, you can make the underlying image more or less visible.

Image Fill Options

You can use the Size pop-up menu in the Fill section of the Graphic Inspector to change the way that the image appears inside the shape. There are five options:

• Scale to Fit makes the image bigger or smaller to fit into the shape as well as possible ( Figure 5.41 ).

  Figure 5.41. The Scale to Fit option scaled the panda to fit within the rectangle.

  

  
  

• Scale to Fill makes the image fill the shape, leaving no space around the edges ( Figure 5.42 ).

  Figure 5.42. Scale to Fill made the panda image fill up as much of the rectangle as possible, but cut off part of the image.

  

  
  

• Stretch distorts the image, if necessary, to make it fill the shape ( Figure 5.43 ).

  Figure 5.43. The Stretch option also fills the rectangle, but distorts the image.

  

  
  

• Original Size puts the image in the shape with no change in its dimensions ( Figure 5.44 ). If the image is larger than the shape, part of the image will be cut off. If the image is smaller, there will be blank space around the image.

  Figure 5.44. The Original Size option cuts off part of the panda image in this case, because the original size of the image is larger than the containing rectangle.

  

  
  

• Tile repeats the image inside the object. If the image is smaller than the shape, you will see multiple copies of the image inside the shape ( Figure 5.45 ). If the image is larger, you will only see part of the image.

  Figure 5.45. Because the panda is not as wide as the rectangle, the Tile option repeats the panda inside the rectangle.