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Before creating your very own prezi, you'll need to make sure you have an account. It's easy to sign up for one, and as long as you don't mind your presentations being available to the public, it's completely free. There are options to upgrade your account, which along with various features allows you to make your prezis private.
In our example, we'll be creating a prezi from a template. Templates are pre-designed canvases from which you can build presentations. While it is possible to build a prezi from scratch, it's fairly time consuming and can be pretty difficult. Prezi offers a variety of templates to fit most presentation needs.
Before we move forward with editing our first prezi, let's get to know Prezi's interface. It probably looks different from other presentation software you may have used in the past. While Prezi is relatively simple to use, its interface has several features you'll want to become familiar with.
Click the buttons in the interactive below to become more familiar with the Prezi interface.
Click the undo or redo button to undo or redo recent actions.
Clicking Save will save the current version of your prezi. Your prezi also saves automatically as you work on it.
The Insert button allows you to insert a variety of elements into your prezi, including pictures, shapes, and videos.
Clicking Customize will allow you to change the overall look of your prezi, including its background and color scheme.
Click Present to view your prezi, frame to frame.
Using the Share button, you'll be able to share your prezi with others via email, Facebook, or by creating a link to your prezi.
In the Settings menu, you'll be able to turn keyboard shortcuts on and off. You can also change the aspect ratio to make sure your prezi fits a certain screen or projector you may be using.
The Add New Frame button allows you to create a new frame for your prezi. You can customize the shape and size of your frame after adding it.
In the Frame Navigation pane, you'll find all of the frames currently in your prezi. From here, you can click a frame to view how it will look in your presentation. You can also reorder your frames from this toolbar.
In the Navigation pane, you can zoom in and out of your canvas or click the Show overview button to view your canvas as a whole.
With the Edit Path tool, you can customize the path your presentation takes from frame to frame and add animations to your transitions.
Prezi templates have preset frames, as shown in the frame navigation pane. Within these frames, there's something called placeholder text. This is text you can replace with your own content.
In addition to placeholder text, some templates include sample pictures in certain frames. You'll probably want to replace these with pictures more relevant to the content of the prezi you're creating.
As mentioned previously, Prezi uses things called frames instead of slides. When creating a prezi, it's important to know how to add, delete, and reorder frames to make sure your prezi is a good fit for the information you want to communicate.
Sometimes a template may have less frames than you need for everything you'd like to include in your prezi. Luckily, Prezi makes it easy to add frames to your presentation.
Sometimes a template may have too many frames for the prezi you want to make, or you may not like one of the preset frames.
Once you've completed your prezi, you may find that you want to reorder the frames.
In order to communicate an idea most effectively, you may want to include pictures, videos, or background music. You may also find that you want to change the color scheme of your prezi to better reflect the theme of your content. Prezi makes customizing things easy with the help of two buttons in the editor's interface: the Insert button and the Customize button.
When creating your prezi, you may want to include more than just words to get your point across. Prezi has an Insert button that allows you to insert pictures, videos, shapes, and background music. These can help to both communicate ideas more effectively and to make your prezi more engaging to your audience.
Prezi provides a variety pictures and shapes for you to choose from, and you can include also include YouTube videos. You'll also find premade layouts for frames and paths in the Insert menu.
Located at the top of the Prezi interface, the Customize button opens a pane on the right side of the window that lets you change the background and theme of your prezi. The Customize tool allows you to keep the physical layout and look of the template you chose while changing only the color scheme and font. There are more than 24 themes to choose from, and you always have the option of clicking Revert to original if you don't like the changes you've made.
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