Get Started in Prezi
Back to LearnTutorial wasn't enough? Below are a few more suggestions to help you get started on your first prezi:
1. Navigate the canvas
2. Get to know the zebra
3. Start from a template
4. Customize colors and fonts
5. Anchor yourself on the canvas
6. Insert a Drawing
7. Draw Shapes
8. Add URLs to your prezi
9. Path Points: Navigate and rearrange with path sidebar
Use your mouse: scroll to zoom, drag to pan
You can use your mouse to zoom and pan in prezi. To pan the canvas in Edit or Show mode, press and hold the mouse button while moving the mouse. Use the scroll button on your mouse to point to and zoom to an object.
Get to know the zebra
The zebra is your best friend in Prezi. Once you add anything to the canvas, click once on it to bring up the zebra, allowing you to move, scale, and rotate any content you have selected. By using frames, you can click once on the frame to bring up the zebra to move, scale or rotate everything inside at once.
Start from a template
When you open a prezi, you can choose between 5 reusable templates or a blank canvas. When choosing a template, you can edit everything you see on the canvas just as if you were creating your own prezi, including copy/pasting pre-made content you would like to duplicate.
“Steal” from reusable prezis: reuse
Reuse allows you to share ideas more effectively and helps you get started by saving an editable copy of another user’s prezi. Through reuse, you can borrow assets, animations or sound effects you see in another prezi. Select a reusable prezi from the Explore page, then click Make a Copy to create a copy of it in Your Prezis page.
Customize colors and fonts: Theme Wizard
Use the Color Wizard to customize Prezi theme colors, and select a font set from the Wizard's font library. You can also create branded Prezi themes by adding your exact company colors to the wizard. Paying users (Pro, EduPro and Enjoy, EduEnjoy) can even add their logo to a custom theme.
Home button: Anchor yourself on the canvas
To make sure that you get the most out of Prezi's zoomable canvas, or to get an overview of everything you've added so far (both in Edit or Show mode), you can use the right zoom bar's Home button. Clicking the Home button before you get started will also ensure that you're starting from the right position.
Insert a Drawing
Prezi designers created 12 premade drawings, diagrams, and charts that can help in many types of presentations. Quickly add content to your reusable drawings, and duplicate (using the right click menu or keyboard shortcuts) your drawings to quickly populate your prezis.
Draw shapes: arrow, marker, pencil
Choose Insert > Shapes from the bubble menu to add shapes, lines, arrows, and more to your prezi. Use rectangles, circles, and triangles to draw gemoetric shapes; use Arrows to show relationships between ideas; highlight text with the Highlighter. Jot down ideas and make sketches with the Pencil.
Add URLS to your prezi: live links
To create live links in your prezi that open when clicked, copy the desired URL, paste it into a text box and click OK. Save your prezi and click Exit. When you return to the prezi, the link will be live.
Path Points: Navigate and rearrange with path sidebar
When presenting on a stage, it can help to have a narrative in your prezi. With the Path tool, you can create a path to follow while you present (after going into Show mode).
To set your path, select the path button from the bubble menu, then click on objects in your prezi canvas in the order you wish them to appear when viewing.
Creating a path is a whole lot easier using the path sidebar. When you add a path point (using the path button from the bubble menu) - it automatically creates a thumbnail on the sidebar to the left of your canvas.
Click on a thumbnail in the sidebar to zoom to your path point, or rearrange and delete path points with a single click!
View the video below to see the path sidebar in action: