Keynote User Guide for Mac
- Welcome
- What’s new
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- Change object transparency
- Fill shapes and text boxes with colour or an image
- Add a border to an object
- Add a caption or title
- Add a reflection or shadow
- Use object styles
- Resize, rotate and flip objects
- Move and edit objects using the object list
- Add linked objects to make your presentation interactive
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- Send a presentation
- Intro to collaboration
- Invite others to collaborate
- Collaborate on a shared presentation
- See the latest activity in a shared presentation
- Change a shared presentation’s settings
- Stop sharing a presentation
- Shared folders and collaboration
- Use Box to collaborate
- Create an animated GIF
- Post your presentation in a blog
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- Use iCloud Drive with Keynote
- Export to PowerPoint or another file format
- Reduce the presentation file size
- Save a large presentation as a package file
- Restore an earlier version of a presentation
- Move a presentation
- Delete a presentation
- Password-protect a presentation
- Lock a presentation
- Create and manage custom themes
- Copyright
Add an image gallery in Keynote on Mac
With an image gallery, you can view a collection of photos and SVG images in one place on a slide, so only one shows at a time. When you play your presentation, you can cycle through the images before moving to the next slide. A visual effect plays during the transition from one image to the next.
Note: SVG images displayed in image galleries cannot be combined or broken apart.
Go to the Keynote app
on your Mac.Open a presentation, click
in the toolbar, then choose Image Gallery.Drag the image gallery to reposition it on the slide, and drag any selection handle to resize it.
To add images, drag them from your computer to the image gallery.
To customise the image gallery, make sure it’s still selected, then do any of the following:
Adjust the position or zoom level of an image: Double-click the image on the slide, then drag it to move it in the frame. Drag the slider to zoom.
Reorder images: In the Format
sidebar, click the Gallery tab, then drag image thumbnails to reorder them.Change the transition between images: To change the visual effect that plays between images in your presentation, in the Animate
sidebar, click the Action tab, then click Change.Add an image description that can be used by assistive technology (for example, VoiceOver): Click the Gallery tab in the Format
sidebar, then click an image thumbnail. Enter your text in the Image Description text box. The image description isn’t visible anywhere in your presentation.You can also add a title to an image gallery, as well as add captions to individual images or all images. See Add a caption or title to objects.
To navigate through the image gallery, click
or 
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To delete an image from the gallery, in the Format sidebar, click the Gallery tab, click the image thumbnail, then press Delete. To extract an image from the gallery, drag the image thumbnail to a slide, document, or anywhere you want to place it.