Creating a Presentation:

Luna allows you to create a presentation made up of images from collections as well as their associated annotations and links. A presentation controller allows you to show your presentation.

Begin by creating a group of images in the Group Window.

Create a presentation by clicking on Create Presentation from the Group Window. This transfers you to the Image Workspace and shows a thumbnail window of the group you created.

The thumbnail window can be moved to any location on the screen. The window slider can be used to bring more images into view. The way in which images are arranged, from left to right and then down, indicates the order in which the presentation will be shown.

The default image is a full image, fit to the maximum size of the screen. (See following illustrations.)

The different features of the Image Workspace can be used to manipulate views of the image. Drag, Resize, Zoom or Pan can be used to get the desired effect.

Linking multiple copies of the same image can be very effective in preparing a presentation. A first image may be the full default view. A linked copy of this image may be zoomed to a detail or resized to a smaller window and then positioned in a corner of the screen.

When the images are shown, then the full image would be shown first and then the detail or smaller image will appear over the larger one when the screen is advanced.

The presentation has been saved and closed. The Group Window now shows that there is a presentation for this group. (See the presentation icon.) You can now save the group thus saving the presentation in it.

If you have the proper permissions you can save groups to the server, but if you do not save them locally to the machine you are working on. You can save groups to removable media (floppy disks, cd, zip disks, etc.) and open them from other workstations later.

Copy:
Copying duplicates the selected image. All of the same functions to create a particular view of an image can be used with copies. Whenever a copy is cut, it is deleted from the presentation.

Cut:
Cut removes an image from a presentation. When an image is cut, it will gray and a red outline will appear around it. The presentation sequence skips over this image during playback. Cutting an image affects only the presentation. It does not change the images in the group. Copies of an image do get deleted when cut.

Restore:
Restore makes a cut image active again.

Link:
Linking allows you to show two images at a time. In the default condition for presentations, an image appears only once, in its sequence position, and then it disappears when a new image is shown. Linking determines how long (for how many additional images), the selected image will persist. In the illustration below, images 1 and 2 are linked together.

Unlink:
Clicking on a selected image that is linked to other images, unlinks it. Selecting unlink also unlinks images.

Moving an image:
Use the mouse to mouse down an image and drag it over another image to move it to a new location. Images can be moved past the top or bottom of the thumbnail window: reaching the top or bottom edge with the thumbnail will start the window scrolling up or down.

Saving the presentation:
Clicking the close button at the top right of the thumbnail window will save the presentation and exit the authoring mode. Click the return arrow to return to the Group Window.

Ending the authoring mode:
To save the presentation and end the authoring mode at any time, click the close button at the top right of the thumbnail window.

Showing a presentation:
In the Group Window, a blue presentation icon will appear in any title bar for an image group that is already a presentation. Click on the presentation icon or select Show presentation from the Group Window.

The presentation will be shown in the Image Workspace in its inactive state.

You will see the first image of the presentation with the presentation icon in the upper right corner of the image window. The presentation remote will be available at the bottom right of the screen.