Status

Available

Released

Apr 8th, 2011

Apple Preview is the OS X program used for opening and editing PDFs, images, and other graphical content on your Mac computer. In this 2-hour tutorial Francesco Schiavon shows you how to get the most out of Preview!

In your day to day work with your Mac computer, you're going to open and edit a lot of PDFs, JPGs, PNGs, and other graphics files. Preview is the software application you'll use to accomplish these tasks, and many more.

This tutorial begins with a detailed overview of the tools you'll use to edit and modify images and other files in Preview. You'll learn how to use the Move and Select tools, the Text tools, the Lasso, and the Instant Alpha tools.

Next, you'll move on to discover how easy it is to annotate text and PDF files with preview. You'll learn how to use the Strike Through and Highlight tools, and also the Underline tool. Preview also provides a Side Bar you can use to navigate through your annotations, and you'll learn all the tricks you need to get the most out of this time-saving feature.

With a solid text treatment under your belt, you'll next learn how to edit images by rotating, cropping, and color shifting graphics files. You'll even discover how easy it is to resample images, and transcode from one image format to another.

PDFs are a big part of Preview, and you don't need Adobe Acrobat Reader to edit these files - Preview provides a perfect alternative! You'll learn how to create multi-page PDFs, add images to PDF files, and even how to password protect a PDF so other people can't edit or change files for certain security purposes.

This is a comprehensive tutorial, but you don't have to watch the entire show. Use the detailed menus and keyword search functions to quickly find topics of interest ... that's the essence of NonLinear Educating!

• Mac OS X (10.7) 101: Core Lion
• Mac OS X 104: Preview
• Mac OS X 106: Address Book
• Mac OS X 107: Calculator
• Mac OS X 108: DVD Player

For a full list of the topics covered, see the Tutorial Outline
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• Chapter 1: Preview
• 1: Introduction
• 02:39
  1. Introduction To Preview
• Seciton 2: Preferences
• 03:30
  2. General Preferences For Opening Files
• 03:11
  3. General Preferences For The Window's Background Colo...
• 02:35
  4. Setting The Initial Image Scale In Preferences
• 04:50
  5. Defining The Type of Scale Being Used To Display the...
• 04:04
  6. Setting How A PDF Will Open Using Preferences
• 05:54
  7. More Personal PDF Preferences
• 00:30
  8. Removing Bookmarks In Preferences
• 3: Tools and the Tool Bar
• 02:36
  9. Customizing The Toolbar
• 01:44
  10. Using The Actual Size Tool With Zooming
• 01:44
  11. Previous And Next Versus Back And Forward Tools
• 04:16
  12. The Move, Text And Select Tools Applied To PDFs
• 01:59
  13. The Move And Select Tools Applied To Images
• 01:42
  14. Using Circular And Elliptical Selections
• 04:40
  15. When To Use Lasso Selections Or Instant Alpha
• 02:04
  16. Making Selections With The Smart Lasso
• 01:58
  17. Optimizing How You Use The Smart Lasso
• 4: Annotations
• 04:16
  18. The Power Of Annotations
• 02:07
  19. Working With Annotation Text
• 03:40
  20. Making Notes On PDFs
• 05:01
  21. Using Annotations To Make Links
• 04:31
  22. Adding Highlighting, Underlining And Strike Through...
• 01:54
  23. Navigating PDF Annotations With The Sidebar
• 01:27
  24. Navigating Image Annotations With The Sidebar
• 04:07
  25. Saving Annotated Files
• 5: Editing Images
• 02:23
  26. Rotating And Flipping Images
• 03:57
  27. Cropping And Rotating Images And PDFs
• 04:43
  28. Adjusting Colour And Size Of Images
• 01:13
  29. How To Resample An Image
• 04:19
  30. Getting Into The Inspector
• 6: Working With and Creating PDFs
• 04:06
  31. Exploring Multiple Page PDFs
• 03:43
  32. Creating Multiple Page PDFs
• 04:19
  33. Modifying PDFs by Adding New Pages And Images
• 03:30
  34. Password Protecting PDFs With The Encrypt Option
• 7: The Sidebar
• 04:43
  35. Viewing Options With The Sidebar
• 04:16
  36. Searching Within Preview
• 01:20
  37. Searching Image Filenames
• 8: Deeper into Preview
• 04:05
  38. Slideshows On Preview
• 05:19
  39. Bookmarks In Preview
• 03:20
  40. Using Preview To Take Screenshots
• 05:24
  41. Viewing Animated Gifs And 3D Images In Preview
• 00:47
  42. Wrapping Up

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