Lesson 4: Adding A Background; Lesson 5: Adding Text Effects - ScanSoft Kai’s Power SHOW User Manual

Lesson 4: Adding a Background

If you don't want to place text directly
onto a photo or picture, you can place it
on a background.
The background presets provided with
SHOW are divided into 5 categories,
offering 100 choices. They're perfect for
creating business slides comprised of both
static and animated text. They are also just
right for fun home projects.
In this lesson, you'll create a new slide
using a "Wild & Fun" background.
First, drag the Current Frame
Indicator in the Nano Sequencer to
the empty frame at the end of your
show.
To create a new slide using a
background:
1. While within the Text fx dialog, click
the Background button (far right).
The Backgrounds dialog appears.
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The Backgrounds dialog shows you previews of
all the background presets available in SHOW.
2. Click the Wild & Fun category button
(far-right at the bottom of the
Background dialog box). The
background previews change to
display all the Wild & Fun
backgrounds.
The name of each preset appears as
you move the cursor over it.
3. Click the Wild Mosaic background.
4. The new background appears in the
Text fx dialog's Preview window.

Lesson 5: Adding Text Effects

Text effects are animations that you assign
to text strings. There are a wide variety of
effects you can create using SHOW's text
effects. The best way to find the most
appropriate effect is to apply them to your
text and see what happens.
• Click to select, then delete all text
strings on your current slide.
• Click the Randomize control "dice
icon" to see random text effects. Click
anywhere to stop and select the
current preset one.
To apply an In text effect:
1. Click the fx In menu and choose
Pinch.
2. This effect animates in the Preview
window. Since you had no text string
selected, a quote was used.
3. Click to select the quote text string.
4. Edit the text using the Text Entry box.
5. Click the Projector icon to preview
your custom animated message.
It's possible to assign an In and an Out
text effect to the same text string if you
really want to get fancy. You can also click
the Fade button to add a fade variation to
the text effect.