⌃ ↑             View Mission Control

⌃ ↓             Show app’s windows

F11             Show desktop

F12             Show Dashboard

⌃ ← ⌃ →     Move between spaces

⇥               Show windows for next app after ⌃ ↓

spacebar     Enlarge window under cursor after ⌃ ↑

⌘ command   - The Command key is similar to the P.C                              “Ctrl” key.

                        - On some older keyboards the Command                             key is also referred to as the apple key                             because it had an apple icon on it, like                             on the external keyboards in this lab.  

⌥ option         - used in many key board short cut                                     combinations

                        - Often changes or reverses the function                               of a tool or keyboard short cut

                        - Example, click and “drag” a file while                                 holding the option key.

⌃ control        - Same as “right” clicking with mouse

                        - In Finder, clicking while holding this key                             opens a “contextual menu”

⇧ shift           - Not just for making upper case letters

                        - Used to select multiple objects                                           positioned in a row

                        - Constrain movements (in some                                         applications)

⌫ delete     ⇥ tab     ⎋ esc     ⏻power

⏏ eject     ⮐ return

⌘ ← ⌘ →             Go to the start/end of the line

⌘ ↑ ⌘ ↓               Go to the start/end of the document

⌥ ← ⌥ →             Go to the previous/next word

⌥ ↑ ⌥ ↓               Go to the previous/next paragraph (Add                                ⇧ with any of the above to select)

⌘X ⌘C ⌘V           Cut / Copy / Paste

⌘ A                      Select all

⇧ ⌘ L ⇧ ⌘ Y        With selection: web search / sticky                                      note

⇧ ⌘ 3             Screen to file

⌃ ⇧ ⌘ 3          Screen to clipboard

⇧ ⌘ 4             Area to file (then space to get window)

⌃ ⇧ ⌘ 4          Area to clipboard (then space to get                                        window)

⌃ F1                Turn keyboard control on/off

⌃ F2 ⌃ F3        Focus on menu bar/Dock

⌃ F4 ⌃ F5        Focus on window/window toolbar

Then, use ← → ↑↓ to navigate, space to select, ⎋ to exit

⌘ ⇥        Advance to next app

⌘ `         Next window in current app

⌥ ⌘ D     Hide/Show Dock

⌥ ⌘ 8               Toggle zoom feature (turn on to use                                       zoom)

⌥ ⌘ = ⌥ ⌘ -    Zoom in / out (also ⌃ and mouse scroll)

⌥ ⌘ F5             Show accessibility controls

⌘ N               New window

⌘ ,                App preferences

⌘ O               Open file

⌘ H               Hide app

⌘ W              Close window

⌥ ⌘ H           Hide others

⌘ S               Save

⌘ T               Show fonts panel

⌥ ⇧ ⌘ S       Save As

⇧ ⌘ C           Show colors panel

⌘ P               Print

⇧ ⌘ /           Help

⌘ Q              Quit

⌃ ⌘ F           Full screen mode

⌥ ⌘ Q          Close and quit

⌘ M              Minimize

⌥             Choose boot volume

⌥ ⌘ P R    Reset PRAM

⌘ S          Single user mode boot

⌘ R          Disk Utility and Internet recovery

T              Go into Target disk mode

- Found on the Top Left Corner window

- Access to: Information about your Mac, Software updates, Logging off options.

- System Preferences

- this is where you can customize settings for your computer, you can change

the preferences to items or methods on your computer.

ie: how fast your mouse moves, changing gestures on your track pad,

connecting to external monitor options, language...

Are computer programs that are various software tools that can range

from keeping organized, editing photos, surfing the net, calculating,

video games, etc.

Examples: Adobe Photoshop, Internet Browsers, Microsoft Word, iTunes,

Calendar, Calculator, Address Books = these are all applications.

- Is the bar found on the top of your computer. Its appearance will change with each

application you are working in.

- Just like its name says: It is an organized menu, where you can go to access tools and

options for the programs you are using. Take the time to look through the menu bar for

each application you use. It will help save time when you are trying to trouble shoot.

- is an application that allows you to keep you navigated through your

computer and also keep you organized.

(Think of it as a your computer’s organized filing cabinet, this is where

you would go to search for folders, files, applications, external devices)

- You use the ‘Finder’ to FIND items on your computer!

- Houses the shortcuts to applications.

- It is found on the bottom of your screen, with all the little icons. You can customize your doc to

appear either on the bottom or left or right side of your screen.

This is done through System Preferences - Dock.

- For the applications that are in use, a little dot will be under the icon indicating the apps are

opened and are in use.

- You can add and remove short cuts to the

doc by dragging them off to remove them

or dragging them into the doc to add them.

- Application icons will appear on the left.

Documents, files, open windows will

appear on the right side of the dock

(Notice a line that divides the two)

1. Select: File - (in Finder Menu) File - Move To Trash

2. Drag & Drop file to the Trash icon on your doc.

3. Right click on file and choose ‘Move To Trash’

4. Select your file and use Keyboard short cut:

Delete

Shows you the path you created when you clicked through the Finder to get to a folder/file.

Found directly under the main window of the open folder.

Displays the number of items in that location and the amount of available disk space.

It is found directly under the path bar.

While you have the file selected/highlighted, press the spacebar.

This can be done with multiple files as well.

Another word for search.

Spotlight allows you to search for items quickly on your computer.

It will search for files, folders, applications etc. instantly as you begin to start

typing in the field.

• Use this to get a quick overview of every window you have open on your desk top “right now”

• Control-Side arrow keys: will allow you to cycle through your “spaces” individually or 3 finger up swipe on track pad (can customize trackpad)

• You can create various desktop Spaces and

organize which windows appear in each one.

•Quick access to applications (Apps)

• by default, you see the Mac apps first

• use two finger swipe left or right to see additional apps

• To add an application, drag its icon from the Finder to the Launchpad icon in the dock

• F4 key on your laptop is the keyboard shortcut to Launchpad

Computer's Hard Drive

USB Drive

Memory Card

DVD

Your Phone or Other Connected Devices

• Eject from the Finder menu. Click on your device,

it will become highlighted, press the eject button on the right side of it.

• Drag and drop volume to the trash can, once you

hover over trash it changes to the eject icon.

• Right click with Mouse, window pops up, choose

“Eject”

Air Drop provides a really easy way to share files between supported, Wi-Fi enabled Macs, without having to connect through the local Wi-Fi network.

You can find AirDrop in the:

Finder Icon - (Under “Favourites”) - AirDrop

or

MenuBar - Go - AirDrop

• A zip is a compressed item (folder, file, fonts)

• Zipping an item consists of compressing one or

more items into a smaller archive

• A zipped item takes up less archive space and it

takes less time to transfer to another computer.

• Connect your EH to your computer

• Access DISK UTILITY (Under Applications- Utilities)

• Choose your External Hard drive on the left menu

• Choose the ‘Erase’ tab

• Choose the type of formatting

- To be read/written only on Macs: Mac OS Extended (Journaled)

• Enter the name you want to appear on your volume.

• Press Erase button

•System Preferences - Time Machine

• Turn ON

• Select Disc

• Choose your volume (External Hard drive you re-named)

• Choose : Back up Disc

• Notice your External HD now has the Time Machine Icon

on it. You are ready to back up your entire computer and

have a peace of mind when you go to sleep at night!

Bit

Byte

Kilobyte

Megabyte

Gigabyte

Terabyte

Vector Graphics (A drawing, geometrical,text)

They can be scaled to any size without loss of quality

Raster Graphics (Images, photos, created from pixels)

.jpg

.tiff

RAW

1. A raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of a digital

camera.

2. Raw files are not yet processed. They are to be used with a graphics editor Software

like Photoshop or Lightroom and then converted to another file format. The image will be

processed by a raw converter in a wide-gamut internal colour space where precise

adjustments can be made before conversion to an RGB file format such as TIFF or JPEG

for storage, printing, or further manipulation.

3. Raw image files are also known as digital negatives, because similar to film negatives

in traditional chemical photography; the negative is not directly usable as an image, but

has all of the information needed to create an image. Similar to photographic

negatives, a Raw file has had zero to minimal in-camera processing and will have a wider

dynamic range or colour gamut than the final image format such as a tiff or jpg file.

4. There is still no widely accepted standard raw format. Adobe's Digital Negative

(DNG)format has been put forward as a standard, but has not been adopted by many

major camera companies (ie: Canon = .CR2, Nikon = .ARW )

- You have the ability to possibly recover lost detail in overexposed highlights and

blocked shadows, (in jpg files that data would have been lost) The RAW conversion

software can reconstruct and restore data to an area where some of the pixels channels

get over exposed. (could be that only one of the Red, Green or Blue pixels got

overexposed)

- More exposure latitude: you have more colours to work with, which will mean a

smoother looking image. The world is made up of tremendous gradient variations ie:

blue sky, that when captured as an 8bit jpg, you are compromising all that extra colour

detail which would result in a choppy/ posterized look. With raw...more latitude to

capture all those colours and process them properly.

- Tagged Image File Format (abbreviated TIFF) is a file format for storing images, including

photographs and line art.

- The ability to store image data in a lossless format makes the TIFF file a useful

image archive, because, unlike standard JPEG files, the TIFF using lossless

compression (or none) may be edited and re-saved without losing image quality;

other TIFF options are layers and pages.

- Great file format to use and save in when you will be doing multiple edits, and re-saving

the file frequently. i.e.: When using Photoshop

- A TIFF also can include a vector-based Clipping path (outlines, croppings, image frames)

-Not many DSLRs save files as tiffs, you would have to export your RAW file as a tiff.

1. commonly used method of compression for photographic images.

2. The name "JPEG" stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group, the name of the committee that

created the standard. The group was organized in 1986, issuing a standard in 1992, which was

approved in 1994 as ISO 10918-1.

3. The compression method is usually lossy compression, meaning that some visual quality is lost

in the process and cannot be restored.

4. JPEG is also not well suited to files that will under go multiple edits, as some image quality will

usually be lost each time the image is decompressed and recompressed (generation loss). It is

preferable to use a non-lossy format such as TIFF while working on an image that will undergo multiple

post editing (such as use in Photoshop), and then save a JPEG version after all editing is complete.

Jpeg files will be easier and smaller to send as email or sending to the printers.

5. File sizes are smaller when saved, because file becomes compressed. Therefore you can save more

files onto a memory card. The more the file becomes compressed, the more quality you might be

jeopardizing.

iMovie is an Apple application that

allows you to create and edit video.

You can easily browse your video

clips, create HD movies to share &

view on various devices.

Library/Events

Project Viewing Area/Canvas

Time line or Project Browser

Library

The area of the iMovie sidebar where you organize and

select your libraries and events. When you select a

library or an event in the Libraries list, it’s clips and

projects appear in the browser.

Event

When you import video clips and photos,

or record directly into iMovie, the source

media files (your raw footage) are stored

in events. An event is similar to a folder

that can hold video clips, audio clips, and

photos, as well as movie projects. Each

event in the library refers to media on

your hard disk. (name your events the

same as you’d name your project, easier

to organize)

Colour, contrast and brightness

Cropping effects and Ken burns effect

Special Effects

A creative crop, motion/panning shot of

a still photo.

-You can choose what part of the

image the video transition effect

starts and ends on

-Give a nice creative, motion

effect to your still image.

-This allows for an easy way

to incorporate a smooth

transition from one image to

another

A smooth or blending change from one scene to another. You can

have a photo fade in or out, dissolve into another clip, zoom in to another clip, etc.

Transitions can be added manually, choosing which effects to add between

particular clips, or you can set iMovie to add transitions automatically.

By default, iMovie makes all the transitions in your movie the same length.

Standard transitions are aprox. 1.5 seconds long. You can change these default

durations in your movie settings.

For quick access: double click on

transition icon to change the duration of time.

To customize your toolbar:

View - Customize Toolbar

or

Right click on toolbar for

option.

“Drag your favorite items into

the toolbar”

• Duplicate a slide...

• Highlight it by clicking on it in the sidebar

• Then press Command + D

• or Menu - Edit - Duplicate

• or Right click on slide and choose duplicate

- Select the slide in the side slide bar and :

- press delete key on your keyboard or

- (Menu Bar) Edit - Delete or

- Right Click on mouse - Delete

Format

Animate

Document

Allows you to modify and stylize your slides, create

animated actions for objects/text/photos.

Inspector includes controls to change the appearance and other aspects of

selected objects, charts, tables, shapes, and text. The controls you see

are context specific, meaning they apply only to the type of object

you have selected.

For example, if you select text, the Format inspector

displays tools to modify the text’s font choice, colour, etc.

Change the appearance and other

aspects of selected objects, text, photos, shapes, charts and

tables.

The controls you see are context specific, meaning they apply only

to the type of object you have selected. For example, if you select

text, the Format inspector provides tools to modify the text’s font

style, colour, etc.

It can animate an entire slide, known as a

transition or it can animate selected items on the slide such as:

text, photos, graphics etc. Animating selected items on a slide are

known as build animations.

Object animations are called build effects.

Different build effects are available depending on whether the object is a text box, chart, table,

shape, or image.

Moving an object onto a slide is building in. Moving an object off a slide is building out. Moving

an object around on a slide is an action build.

Click & Drag your song from the Media box

or right from your itunes, into the:

- To play music on your ENTIRE slideshow =

Document Inspector - Audio Soundtrack Box

- To play music on a SINGLE slide only =

Drop your file onto that particular slide.

This play icon will appear on your single slide that will play a song.

- Use Alpha tool for when you want to

make a colour transparent/cut an area out.

- When making the selection, selection

grows to include areas that use similar

colours.

- Click and drag over area you want to

eliminate. Press DONE button when

finished selecting.

You can mask photos (like adding a matte) to crop part

of the photo . or mask it into different shapes

A Mask can be resized. Photo image can be resized and

moved within the mask for cropping effect.

Format - Image - Mask With Shape = Choose Shape mask

Use a shape as a mask and insert photo

from your media icon or drag and drop

photo into shape.

or

if your photo is already on the slide and

you want to add a shape mask,

follow the path from the

Keynote Menubar under Format.

Great to use for presentations to remind you to address

something to the audience, etc…

The audience will not see the Comment Notes if presented on proper view mode.

Comment Notes can be added onto selected text, objects and tables cells

Comment Note can be resized, placed anywhere on the page to make reminders for yourself.

- Presenter Notes appear on the bottom of the slide.

- Great to use to add reminders for yourself when presenting a presentation. -

- Presenter Notes can be hidden from the audience when set in proper view mode for final presentation.

Turn Presenter Notes

on or off.

Found in:

Menu Bar - View-

Hide or Show Presenter

Notes

Predesigned themes that you can easy edit and

drop in your own photos, text and video

• Typical text editor.

• For letters, essays, reports, resumés, etc

• Text flows from one page to the other. Pages are automatically added when needed.

• Word Processing Templates have set Sections.

(To add a new page under Menu bar - Insert - ‘Section’

i.e.: writing essay and splitting it up to: Table of Contents,

essay section, reference section, etc.

• Pre Designed creative layouts for creating:

news letters, brochures, flyers, posters, cards,

certificates

• Page Layouts have pre-designed Pages, like

Keynotes Master Slides

• To add an extra page, go to:

Menu bar - Insert - Page

- Pages’ Format Inspector is similar to Keynote’s

- Format Inspector allows you to customize the object/text selected.

- Format Inspector will change its menu depending which item you

have selected: photo, text, shape, etc.

- Use guide lines to help align or centre items in your report or

poster designs.

- To add a guide, make your rulers visible.

- From the ruler, click and drag: a yellow line will move with your curser. Line it up to where you want the guide to be placed.

- To view, hide or clear guide lines:

MenuBar - View - Guides

To size or resize your document:

File - Page Set Up - Paper Size (Select size from drop down menu)

or

Size will be displayed in units.

Document Inspector -Document (tab)

- select from drop down menu.

An object refers to any graphic such as: photo, shape, table, chart, text

boxes

An object must be ‘anchored’ onto the document somehow. Either by a:

- specific location on the page. Text or other objects will not affect the objects

location.

- specific text. Object moves with it’s associated text and a marker appears

in the text where the object is anchored.

Stay On Page - the object remains in a fixed location. It can be moved wherever

you would like it on the page, the object will stay there and the text will just flow

around it.

Move With Text - The object maintains its position in relation to the text it is

anchored to.

Your Pages document can be saved in other formats, eg: pdf, Word,epub.

Pages can be saved as a Microsoft Word document, which will allow

you to open and edit with Microsoft Word.

Select Item(s) to lock

Pages Menu Bar - Arrange - Lock

You can also Group Items if you want a

certain selected few to become one item.

Select Items to Group

Pages Menu Bar - Arrange - Group

So they don’t move

while you are designing

How Do You Access the Special Character "Copyright" ©?

Allows you to monitor any changes suggested by you or by other peers about changes to make to your written essay/report.

Changes will appear highlighted, and once clicked on, will show who made the suggestion.

You can accept the change request or reject it.

Under Menu Bar: Edit - Track Changes

Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format used to represent documents in a

manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.

Each PDF file encapsulates a complete description of a fixed-layout flat document, including

the text, fonts, graphics, and other information needed to display it.

PDF was developed in the early 1990s as a way to share documents, including text

formatting and inline images, among computer users of disparate platforms who may not

have access to mutually-compatible application software

wikipedia

A PDF file can be accepted and read by many

different applications.