Using Masks in iWork

Video Transcript

"Hey everybody! My name is Matt and I'm speaking to you on behalf of Expert Village. Another neat thing you can do is you can add masks to your media. I'm going to go over here and drag out a picture. What a mask does is it makes it so only part of a picture is visible. If I only wanted part of this picture, instead of cropping it, I can just add a mask. I'm going to scale that down a little bit. To add a mask, all you have to do is select your media and go up to format and select mask. It automatically adds a mask. You can sale and resize this just like we did our other media. When I click elsewhere, you'll see it only shows that part of the picture. If you click on a mask, you'll get a slider bar and you can slide it to make the picture bigger or smaller so you can get just right what you want from the picture. I'm going to go ahead and delete that and add another picture in here. If you go back up to format, you can come down to mask with shape. You can use different shapes for you mask. I'm going to put in a triangle in there. These work the exact same way, but they're just different shapes that you can use to mask your objects. If at any time you want to go back and edit it, you can just select your object and select edit mask, and you'll see your entire picture. You can move your picture around underneath the mask from there. That's how you use masks."