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Recently I attended a reunion of military families who served in the same unit.This is a very special unit in many ways, but because unit members spend a lot of time away from home in strange - and often dangerous - places, families are alsovery close, supporting each other through good times and bad. As a result, thisreunion was very much a family reunion where family photos were shared alongwith "ops" photos. Children and grandchildren were celebrated as much asmemories of deployments and wild parties.My iPad attracted a lot of attention in this geeky crowd, but what delighted themmost was the photo gallery. Not only are the photos big enough to view, but it'salso easy to zoom in on details like an adorable smile in a group shot. As we ladiessat there oooh-ing and aaah-ing over the photos, I was reminded of earlier dayswhen a family photo album was shared with visitors. Other than the technology,the one thing missing from my photo album was the handwritten captionsdescribing who, what, when and where.Later, after I got back home, I started looking for options to create an iPadversion of that old family album - one that could be shared far beyond the limits of my device. My original plan was to create something on my desktop that couldthen be moved to the iPad, but it dawned on me that I already had everything Ineeded right on my iPad. The challenge now became to create an album withphotos, captions and design elements using only my iPad.
 
The results were surprising. Not only did I create a photo album right in my lap,but it was both easy, affordable and fun.One of my favorite Mac applications is Keynote, the presentation applicationthat is part of Apple's iWork office suite [http://www.apple.com/iwork]. Apple hasbuilt iPad versions of each app in the suite and they can be purchased in the AppStore for $9.99 each. The iPad version of Keynote can import presentations from thedesktop version and from Microsoft's PowerPoint software. It also connects with thephotos stored on my iPad, making it easy to include them in a presentation. It's agreat tool for building digital albums andslideshows!There are a couple of issues with importedpresentations. First, Keynote on the iPad doesn'thave all the whistles and bells included in itsdesktop cousin - or PowerPoint for that matter. Themost likely issue you will face is missing fonts. TheiPad version supports about 30 font styles andthere is no facility to add more. Unless you alreadyhave a project underway, it's just as easy to startfrom scratch on the iPad.Keynote on the iPad includes 12 design themes.I chose the Photo Portfolio theme because itreminded me of the old family albums I remember.Each theme has several slide types available toinclude in your presentation. You choose whichyou want by touching the plus sign (+) at thebottom of the navigator pane on the left thentouching the slide type you want. I’ve chosen thetitle slide with image type to get started.
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The first thing I need to do is change the title text. I just double-tap anywhere inthe default text included with the theme to bringup the iPad keyboard so I can start typing.Touching the information icon at the top of thescreen displays several useful formatting optionswith the first being Style. You can choose any of the styles included in this theme to format yourtext or you can scroll to the bottom and chooseText Options to make your own font choices.As you can see here, you can change the size,color and font style from this pane. Once finished,touch the back arrow in the header to return to theprevious pane.
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