Insight Tutorial

Srinivas Deshraju

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OIT‐ LT

Insight Tutorial

Create presentations and Media Groups SrinivasDeshraju GraduateAssistant–LUNA,OIT‐LT UniversityofMaryland–CollegePark

Insightprovidesarichvisualenvironmentforworkingwithcollectionsofimagesandtext.Itallows simpletocomplexsearchesforfindingandaccessingimages,andoffersmanywaysoforderingand presentingtextdocumentation.Imagesmaybegroupedandarrangedaccordingtouserinterestina varietyofways.Thereisalsoarichsetoftoolsforgrouping,arranging,editing,linkingandviewing images.

Create a New Group

Create a new Group when you want to save and come back to selections of images or share them with others. Also, creating a Group is a first step in using Insight’s Presentation feature. Images may be copied from one or more collections into the same group. Images can be copied from one group to another group. Groups can be saved to folders on your computer, and groups can be saved to folders that you share with other users who may be located anywhere on the Internet.

Before you can create a Group, you mustlog inandopen an Insight collection.

Creating a New Group

From theFilemenu option, click onnew group.

You will be presented with a new, empty Group window.

Copying Images into a Group

1.Select (click on) one or more thumbnail images in an open collection or an open Group. Selected images in the collection window will have a highlighted border.

Note: You can select thumbnail images in an open collection before you open anew group. It can be more convenient to perform selections in advance, with only the collection thumbnail window open, so that you can see more images at once.

2.Press the mouse button down over any (one) highlighted image, and drag and drop it into the new Group window. You will see a thumbnail outline as you drag from one window to the other. If multiple images in the collection are selected, all of them will be copied to the new Group. Drag and drop selected images into the New Image Group.

Once you drop the images by releasing the mouse button, the selected images will appear in the new Group.Note:The original images remain in the collection, while an identical copy now resides in the new Group.

Dragging and dropping thumbnail images into the new Group from the same collection, other collections, or other existing groups, can be repeated any number of times. As you drop thumbnail images into a Group, Insight will check whether they already are present in the Group to avoid adding duplicates.

Creating

a Presentation

Allows you to author and show a sequence of images. Presentations can be as simple as a series of sequential images shown at maximum screen size, or you can create richer presentations with customized images residing sidebyside for comparisons.

1.This groupIn order to create a presentation, you need to have an image group opened. could be one that you have just created or it could be a saved group. Activate the group by clickingFile,Open Group, and then double click on the Group title to open it in the Group Workspace. (Create a New Group (shown above) if you do not have an image group.)

2.Activate the Group by clicking on its title bar.Open an image Group.

3.SelectGroupfrom the main menu, and thenCreate Presentation

.

You will be taken to the Presentation Editor where you can begin composing your presentation. You will also see the Presentation Remote Tool (on the left of the screen) and Image Workspace Tool on the right of the screen ( ) .

4.Complete creating your presentation and then clickSave and Closeto provide a name for your presentation and to close the actual presentation.

5.Now, you can close the Presentation Editor by selecting the Close Image button on the Image Workspace Tool. Then to return to the Group Workspace, select theReturn to GroupWindow button on the Image Workspace Tool.

6.Your presentation will now be saved inThis will return you to the Group Workspace. your Group.

Exporting the Presentation:

You will only see this feature if you have an existing presentation. Also, you must be authorized or have the privilege to use this feature. This feature exports a presentation to a destination of your choice as an html file or a PowerPoint file. You also have the ability to select a resolution for exporting your presentation. After the presentation has been exported, Insight enables you to immediately test your presentation by opening it in your active browser.

1.Create a presentation and save it (if you do not currently have a presentation). 2.Select the presentation that you just created or find another presentation by clicking on the Presentation icon on the Group toolbar. 3.To export a presentation, you must first select an existing presentation in your current collection and click onFilein the main menu, and thenExport Presentation to HTML to export as an HTML orExport Presentation to PowerPoint. ( You can also export to Keynote but only on Macs)

Note: Export to PowerPoint is only available for Window Clients

4.Select a resolution to view the images in your presentation.

5.Specify aExport a presentation to a destination of your choice as an html file. destination folder and Insight will provide a name for your file. For example: in the graphic below, Insight will automatically create a file calledpres.html or pres.htmlthat may be placed in yourGroup Fileswithin theMyPresentationfolder.

6.SelectSave, and Insight will display the path to where the presentation was exported.

Note: Insight creates a folder and uses the title of the presentation as the name of the folder. The HTML or PowerPoint files are placed in this folder. In the example below, the title of the presentation is "Untitled1," therefore, Insight creates a folder namedUntitled1and the.html files or the.ppt filesare placed in this folder.