- Prezi Cookbook
- Charlotte Olsson Christina Hoyer
- 448字
- 2025-04-04 20:56:35
Inserting images from your computer
Images can be inserted onto the Prezi canvas from your computer, or from the Internet. In both cases, you will begin by going to the Insert menu and choosing Image.
How to do it…
One way to insert images into the Prezi canvas is as follows:
- Go to the Insert menu.
- Choose Image.
- Use the dialogue box now available to the right of the Prezi canvas.
- Click on Select files to access your computer.
- Locate the image you want.
- Insert it by selecting it and clicking on Open or by double-clicking the image, as shown in the following screenshot:
Another method is drag and drop. It is so easy to insert images in a prezi using this cool drag-it method. You don't even have to use the Insert menu to insert great images in your canvas. Perform the following steps to insert the images:
- Share your screen between your prezi and your image folder. To do this, click on Restore Down (upper-right corner of the screen) for the prezi's window and the image folder's window to allow the open windows to fit side by side on your screen.
- Locate the image that you want in your prezi.
- Drag the image from the folder to the canvas (this will create a copy of your image), as shown in the following screenshot:
Tip
Pressing on the key L (use lower case) on your keyboard opens your filesystem for easy access to insert an image on the canvas.
See more shortcuts in Appendix C.
There's more…
Too many large images in your prezi can make your prezi's movements slow, and may cause it to not run smoothly during your presentation.
The maximum size for an image for Prezi is 2880 x 2880 pixels. You can safely insert at least 20 images as big as this in your prezi. If you insert more, it may cause the presentation to run less smoothly when presenting; worst case scenario being that it crashes and cannot run.
The solution is to only use large images when you need to zoom into them. And this is where Prezi actively lends a hand to help you.
When you are inserting a large image in your prezi, Prezi opens the dialog box as shown in the following screenshot to ask if you need the image to keep its current (large) size or if you prefer that Prezi resizes the image in order to make it smaller. Consider this as an offer! If you do not need to zoom into this image, click on Resize image. If you need the image to be large enough for close zooming, click on Keep original.
