If you have a “cover” for the e-book, make it the first page of your document. File > Open will open the document for you, and you may wish to change the document font or add images if you’d like. Open your document in Pages and make sure it’s ready to go.If you’ve written the novel in Pages, and have properly set up chapters and a table of content, you’re set. So, you’ve written your amazing novel during National Novel Writing Month ( NaNoWriMo) and you’re excited about getting it self-published. You’d be surprised how much fun you can have with Instant Alpha in Pages! Once you’re done with your image, it’s best to capture it by doing a screenshot on your Mac (Command-3 or Command-4). It’s not the best “PhotoShopping” you can do, but it certainly works in a pinch.I can add other effects here I used the Pages Style pane to add a curved shadow to the logo and offset it a bit so it looks as if it’s floating in front of the landmark (image below). Now I have the OWC logo in blue over the background of El Capitan.Here, I want to make the white background, so I click on the white area and drag across the image to eliminate as much of the background as possible. Instructions appear, telling you to click on a color to make it transparent and to drag to make similar colors transparent (image below). Select Format > Image > Instant Alpha.Here, we just need to know that the image has been selected. Resizing handles appear around the edge of the image these can be used to resize or rotate the image. Click on the OWC trademark so that it is selected.You can see that the OWC trademark currently blocks out El Capitan (image below). Open a blank document in Pages (File > New).However, the only image of the trademark that I have on hand has a white background. Let’s say, for example, that I want to place the OWC trademark on a photo of El Capitan (the rock formation in Yosemite National Park, not the operating system). This first tip is one that I learned a long time ago, and it has served me well when needing to mash up a few photos quickly. Today we’ll try to dispel that misconception by pointing out some of the lesser-known powerful features of Pages.ġ.) “PhotoShop” images with Instant Alpha However, it always seems to be the “red-headed stepchild” to word processing apps like Microsoft Word or even high-powered text editors such as BBEdit. The app is free to most owners of Apple products or just $10 if your device is a few years older, and it is full of amazing capabilities that are more than enough for most users. Pages, the word processing/page layout tool that is part of Apple’s iWork suite, is really underrated. Each week, the Friday Five takes a quick look at a Mac OS X or iOS app to point out five things you may have overlooked before. It’s the end of the week, but that doesn’t mean an end to learning more about your favorite Apple devices.
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