Using an app such as Pages, Numbers or Keynote on iOS or macOS select a shape that suits the theme and compliments or frames your photo.
Follow the link — Preview button — for the method illustrated with four screenshots.
Holiday Shapes
Tag: Creativity SIG
Members attending the Creativity SIG are interested in obtaining more joy from using apps on their Macs or iPad such as Pages, Numbers and Keynote. The emphasis is on using our devices in a creative way. The Creativity SIG currently meets at 10am during each Saturday Main Meeting. For further details see Events under Quick Links.
Draw perfect shapes
Obtain perfect shapes when drawing in a Note, while marking up a screenshot or using Freeform.
Follow the link — Preview button — for the method illustrated with four screenshots.
Lift Subject Tip
Add a photo without its background to another
app — Lift Subject.
Follow the link — Preview button — for the method illustrated with four screenshots.
Drag and Drop Tip
Add one of your photos to another app — Drag and Drop.
Follow the link — Show Me button — for the method illustrated with four screenshots.
Do you use drag-and-drop in other ways?
Visual Lookup tip
Learn more about your photograph— Visual Lookup.
Follow the link — Show Me button — for the method illustrated with four screenshots.
iPad Screenshot and Markup tip
Take a Screenshot and Mark it up using an iPad.
Follow the link — Show Me button — for the method illustrated with four screenshots.
Vignette effect
A Keynote file with details for presenting an image with a vignette effect is available for download at
Creative R&O
File used at the March 2023 meeting
Shapes can be used to create drawings. The file below provides a few shapes that are the building blocks to produce images of animals.
Use this file to discover which shapes were used and try to create other animals using this system.
Download the numbers document
Repurpose your Device for Entertainment
I have a suggestion for the AUSOM Community this Holiday Season. I have almost finished writing a series of articles for our Newsletter.
All of the articles are on the Mom and Pop developer team of Boy Howdy Technologies. They’re mind-stimulating and fun games for the young and young-at-heart, ranging from Card games, matching games and even crossword puzzles. They push you to think creatively to succeed, but have fun doing so.
Some of these items will be in AUSOM News, February 2023 but you can also look at all the games by searching Boy Howdy Technologies.
Why not Repurpose those old iPads or iPhones and load them up with these fun thinking games, plus Apple’s suite of school Apps?
What a treat that could be, keeping those youngsters and oldsters happy.
A gift like this for older people or those sick in Hospitals would help while away the hours.
—George Engel
New Markup Tools NOTES iPad
Have you found the new Markup tools in the Notes app?
They are a little hard to find and at this stage, I cannot find them in any other iPad apps.
Let me know in the Comments if you find these posts useful.
We may look at these new tools in the Creativity SIG in February if there is any interest.