Before we can use our drawings in Prezi, we have to scan the drawings. All scanned drawings consist of pixels (squares). An image made of pixels is called a raster image or a bitmap. We could use them directly in Prezi, but the pixelated images won't look very nice. It's much nicer to vectorize our drawings.
Especially when you zoom in, you can clearly see the difference between a raster image and a vector image. It is shown in the following diagram:
First, we have to vectorize our scanned image. We will use Adobe Illustrator for This. Vector images are saved as an AI or EPS extension. However, we can't use these formats in Prezi. We need to convert the image to SWF. This is Flash's document format and, as Prezi was designed in Flash, this is the right format for vector images to use in Prezi.
Before you can use your drawings digitally, you have to scan the drawings and save them as PDF, JPG, or PNG.
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degrees (in our case) and click on OK.Now, the cool part starts. Let's vectorize!
We need to create separate images for our prezi. This gives us more flexibility because we can position and scale the separate images and easily fit them in our design.
We're almost finished. Now, let's export the file to SWF format.
Do the same for the cloud and export it as a separate SWF file. If you drew more than one lightning arrow just like us, you can choose the best one and export that arrow as a SWF file. In Prezi, you can duplicate it for multiple uses.
Now, repeat this for the other drawings and save them all as separate SWF files. We separated the drawing with the five ideas into eleven images: the head, five arrows and the five ideas.
In this task, we vectorized our drawings. First, we scanned our drawings and then used Adobe Illustrator to convert our pixelated drawings into nice vectors. The Trace Image feature did the job for us. We isolated the separate images and exported them to SWF. Now, let's put everything in Prezi and create our presentation.