Add Dynamic Backgrounds in Keynote on the Mac, iPad, and iPhone

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In this video, we’re going to look at how you can add a dynamic background to a slide in a Keynote presentation. With a dynamic background, what we can do is we can basically have a moving background, it can be moving from one color to another as an example, it’s dynamic. We’re going to look at this on the Mac, iPad and iPhone. Now, before we switch over to my Mac, this is what we’re going to look at it first on, what you want to do is make sure that you have the latest version of Keynote, when I started recording this, I had to re record it because I didn’t have the latest version, I couldn’t find where I add dynamic backgrounds. That’s because I didn’t update Keynote on my Mac. So you want to make sure that you go to the App Store and have the latest versions of Keynote.

So now let’s see how we add dynamic background. So we’re first going to look at this on my Mac. So I’m looking at this Keynote presentation, it’s a pretty basic presentation, I just have a white background. If I want to change the background color, what I do is I go up to Format here, and then we go over to background. Now you’re going to see when you update it that you’re going to have two options, what I can do is choose between standard and dynamic standard is what we are used to I want to change it to a blue background, I just go over to my current fill here. And what I’m able to do is switch it to a blue background. If I want to go to a gradient, I go over to colorfilled here, and I can switch it over to a gradient. Well, you’re going to see that we have our new option here dynamic with dynamic, it’ll create a moving background. And we have a few different options with these backgrounds. And we can customize them. So I’m going to click on dynamic here. And now we can see we have some new dynamic backgrounds.

If we look at my presentation, you can see those colors are moving. Let’s go over to this one here, you’re gonna see it’s a little easier to see. Click on it. And now we can see that that green is moving away from the black. So we have different layers in here. Now each one of these has different options depending on which dynamic background you choose. With this one here, what we’re able to do is choose the color. So I could easily change the colors for this dynamic background, I can also set what the movement is what the height is, and what the peaks are. So if they’re peaking too high, I can lower them not peaking high enough, I can raise them. And again, each one of these is going to have a different option. So I’m going to go to this first one here, you’re going to see that we have different options, here we have a lot more colors that I can add. And I can change the angle, scale and speed.

If we go over to this one here. With this one, I have the speed heightened peaks. So once you add your dynamic background, what you can do is you can customize it. And then if you click on the arrows here, you’re gonna see that you have more options. And if you create your own, let’s say you change it and you’d like to save it and you want to save it for other keynotes, all you have to do is just go over to the plus here, and you can use it and new Keynote presentation. So you can create your own based on one of the default settings here. We also have new themes with these dynamic backgrounds. I’m going to close this. And then let’s go ahead and delete it. We’re just going to go to New here. And you’re going to see that I have some dynamic templates.

So let’s go with my presentation here. What this is going to do is create a new presentation. With those dynamic backgrounds. I click on the Add slide here. And I can choose from different slides with dynamic backgrounds. Let’s see how this works on the iPad basically works the same way. So I’m in my Keynote presentation here, I want to change the background again, make sure that you go to the App Store and update. All I do is just go over to format here. And then you’re going to see background, I tap on it. And then you’re going to see I can choose between my standard and dynamic. I want to go to dynamic I tap on dynamic. I have all of the same options here. And then when I click on it, I can go and change the different settings for if I want to change the colors. I can also change the colors. And again, just like with the Mac, if I create a new presentation, let’s go ahead and create a new presentation. We’re going to close this here and I’m going to create a new one. Choose from a theme and you’re going to see that I have options for a dynamic background theme

On the iPhone, it basically works the same way. I have my basic Keynote presentation here with a white background, what I need to do is tap on the paintbrush in the toolbar. This allows me to format it. And then from here, what I do is I go down to background. When I tap on background, what I have here is dynamic. I tap on dynamic. And now I can choose from all the different dynamic backgrounds. When I select one, I can also edit it, I just swipe up and we have all of the same customization options. And again, we have those same themes. I’m going to go back we’re going to create a new presentation. And what you’re going to see when I choose a theme is I have my dynamic themes. So that’s how we add a dynamic background a moving background to a Keynote presentation on the Mac, iPad, and iPhone