What this book covers
Chapter 1, Administer Your Account and Your Prezi, teaches you how to create, save, and locate your prezis and also set their access through privacy settings. You will see how to arrange your prezis using a Prezi folder system. Renaming the folder and sharing it with your colleagues are some of the tasks that you can perform on the folders.
Chapter 2, Inserting Text, Images, and Links, teaches you how to work on the Prezi canvas, and how to work with text and images. You will learn to apply templates, and use different methods to insert and edit text and images.
Chapter 3, Symbols and Shapes, Lines and Arrows, deals with symbols and shapes, a useful collection of simple graphic items that you can easily insert on the canvas to enhance it. You will also learn about arrows and lines that are attractive and useful in your presentations.
Chapter 4, Editing Elements on the Canvas, teaches you how to work with texts, images, videos, frames, and other such elements on your canvas. You will learn how to resize, turn, move, group, and layer these elements.
Chapter 5, Path and Steps, shows how to arrange the elements on your canvas and show them in a specific order. Elements that can be used as steps are anything that you can put on the canvas; texts, image, videos, symbols, shapes, grouped elements, PDF, and so on. You will learn to create steps, and how to create and edit a path in Prezi.
Chapter 6, Frames and Prezi Ratio, will cover frames, which are an integral part of how Prezi works. You will learn to add and remove content in frames, group and organize them, and control how the content is presented. This chapter also shows how to set the overall ratio for your prezi, and how this setting reflects on your frames so that they automatically match the required screen proportions.
Chapter 7, Zoom and Turn, provides a hands-on approach to learning zooms and turns. When zooms and turns are used correctly, they become powerful tools that greatly enhance your prezi. You will see how to create them, how to combine them with each other, and how they can be applied to all the elements we insert on the canvas.
Chapter 8, Animation, teaches you how to make animations. It shows how to create them and how to edit and reset your animations. It will also show you how to fade a group of elements.
Chapter 9, Reuse Favorite Frames and Elements, will go in-depth into Prezi's advanced features. Knowing how to transfer and reuse a number of elements or whole sections between the prezis in your Prezi account enables you to reuse material, so that you will not have to spend time recreating what you already created once.
Chapter 10, Media Files in Prezi, will be a fun chapter to read because media enhances your presentations in great ways and is so easy to add to your prezi. Adding speech and background music to your prezi or adding videos will be great enhancements.
Chapter 11, Templates, Colors, and Fonts, will teach you how to choose, use, and edit Prezi templates. Using Theme Wizard, you can customize the look of your prezi.
Chapter 12, Presenting with Prezi, covers all the functions in Prezi's present mode. With this chapter, Prezi's presenting features become easy to learn and understand, making it possible for all presenters to feel at home with these functions.
Chapter 13, Prezi on Other Devices, will show you how to work with Prezi for Windows/Mac and Prezi for iPhone/iPad. You will also learn how to create your prezis offline using the Prezi App.
Chapter 14, PowerPoint and Prezi, will explore three different methods for importing material from a PowerPoint presentation onto your Prezi canvas.
Chapter 15, Sharing and Collaborating, shows how to collaborate real time in Prezi to allow your colleagues to do real-time editing on your prezis and also shows you how to give your presentations in collaborative mode. Using the portable feature of Prezi, you can download and show your prezi anywhere.
Appendix A, Design, explores the basic design principles that will actively support and strengthen your prezi.
Appendix B, Transitions, covers how you can make your presentation move forward smoothly in the present mode.
Appendix C, Keyboard Shortcuts, has a collection of shortcuts that can be used during presentation and for editing your prezis.
