New Dynamic Backgrounds With Mac Keynote

A new feature in Keynote lets you easily place an animated dynamic background behind your slides. You can customize them with your own colors, sizes and movement.

Comments: 5 Responses to “New Dynamic Backgrounds With Mac Keynote”

    Juris Ozols
    2 years ago

    Gary - Very nice tutorial, appreciate it as always. Question - is there some way to add some text, make it transparent, and mask out the rest of the slide so that the dynamic background is only visible through the text part?

    2 years ago

    Juris: Not that I can think of offhand. You could do it by building that graphic in a graphics app like Pixelmator or Photoshop, and then just covering the slide with it.

    Juris Ozols
    2 years ago

    Yep, that works fine with Photoshop, creating a png image with a solid background and a transparent hole. Also, playing around with PS Chroma Keying plus the Keynote dynamic backgrounds exported to movies can make for some intriguing effects. Thank you, sir!

    Troy
    2 years ago

    Hi Gary,
    Is it possible to create a dynamic background in Keynote and export it to PDF and have that PDF show the movement? When exported the pdf becomes still. I am making a cover for work for a lookbook I share with clients.
    Thanks,

    Troy

    2 years ago

    Troy: No. PDFs don't really support animation.

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