Rediscover the flavors of Sonoma for Keynote '08 - a tremendously adaptable, print-inspired theme that invites you to create your own definition of variety.

 

Order from Chaos. The print-inspired, block-panel layouts in the Sonoma '08 design allow you to bring wildly divergent styles or topics together into a single, highly-ordered layout with drag & drop ease.

 

Sonoma '08 blends classic print-inspired styling with a color-neutral framework, designed to propel imagery, color and type forward while maintaining a consistent, structured feel. The result is a theme that not only allows you to make your quick-change customizations via a palette change or placing a photo: the design actually encourages you to take that approach to another level, mixing shape-based solid color blocks or contrasting photographic palettes into a diverse array of color and texture. The included layouts - from single-panel, full-page designs all the way to six and seven-panel photo or "module" oriented layouts - are all approached with an eye to balance, detail and style that will make your material look great with very little effort. And since every master includes running footer space, it's easy for you to add company, presentation or copyright information without adding clutter to
the design.

All New for '08.

The Sonoma themes have been completely overhauled in the transition to Keynote '08, producing a whole new generation of the Sonoma themes that are even easier to use and customize than the original release - all at a fraction of the filesizes of the original. Now built entirely with native shape objects and placeholders, you can change the soft grey background contrast to a tinted variation, gradient or photo with a simple change on the Appearance Inspector - even change the white "page" panels and color accents on the master slides to better match your corporate palette, or create your own layout variations thanks to the ease of the new shape object approach. Bullets and Interactive Button Objects have gone native as well - enabling you to customize every aspect of the theme without external image editors. The Sonoma Master Slide pool has also expanded even further - up to 57 Master Slides in the Pro/HD version - including more variations on your favorite layouts from the Sonoma 2 release, and a range of new layout options designed to make the theme even more flexible in the new Keynote '08.

 

 

Page Within a Page. The Sonoma '08 theme features a range of commanding text + photo-oriented layouts - both full-slide and mosaic block-panel layouts - in a crisp, ordered style that frames your custom color changes, photography or even video to create a tight, print-inspired feel.

The Slides

The Sonoma themes includes up to 57 master slides (Pro/HD) - a mix of photo-oriented and alternate text layouts, in both standard and "Caption Style" designs. The Sonoma layouts are designed to allow for maximum flexibility with an understated order imposed by the visible framework - allowing for the "page" panels to take on a clean, highly-designed look and feel within the larger design. Whether using the stock palette, your own custom or mixed palette, or full-scale abstract or narrative-driven photography as a base, your layouts take on the crisp, ordered appearance of highly-produced printwork with little effort. The accompanying chart palette is subtle and professional - blending contrasting primary colors and subdued earth tones in an eye-catching, easy-to-read solid-color palette that translates well from screen to print.

The Big Picture: Sonoma '08 HD.

Sonoma '08 HD, available exclusively in the new Sonoma '08 Pro and Pro+Mobile Editions, expands the style into HD format with aspect-optimized 16:9 and 16:10 versions of the Sonoma '08 design, so you can take advantage of the clean simplicity of the new iMac, a MacPro-driven 20, 23 or 30" Cinema Display, or a next-generation HD projection system as target presentation platforms without the "dead space" associated with running traditional 4:3 presentations on an HD display. Even run full screen on your new MacBook Pro to take full advantage of every inch of the remarkable display. Your presentation will look like it was custom-tailored for your machine.

Take it on the Run.

Sonoma '08 goes mobile with the Sonoma '08 EP Edition - included in the new Sonoma '08 Pro+Mobile Edition or as a stand-alone theme download - built to take the Sonoma '08 style to the iPhone/iPod Touch or classic-format video-capable iPod in a format optimized for small-screen viewing. Our EP Edition Themes, short for Elevator Pitch, recreate their full-scale KeynotePro Theme namesakes with optimizations for increased readability and clarity on the iPhone and iPod Video screen, as well as Title Safe adjustments allowing you to use your EP presentations with the iPod Composite or iPod Component AV Cables and a television or projector without losing any of your important details.

Sonoma '08 EP Edition for classic-format video iPods includes 34 complete Master Slides: a wide range of text and photo-oriented designs cross-optimized for iPod and television display. Sonoma '08 EP Edition for iPhone/iPod Touch includes an expanded 46 Master Slides optimized for viewing on the iPhone or iPod Touch's larger, HD-leaning display.

Find out more about our EP Edition themes and download a sample Quicktime of Sonoma '08 EP for your iPod or iPhone/iPod Touch from our EP Edition Themes page.

 

Make it Your Own. Use a simple slide-level background change, customize the Master Slides or use the supplemental Overlay Objects to easily customize the Sonoma '08 design and layouts to make a presentation more uniquely your own.

 

Supplemental Material

The Supplemental Materials file includes the Sonoma '08 chart palette, along with native button objects for use in interactive presentations and native bullet shapes to make your custom color changes a snap. Need more flexibility? Use the pre-formatted Running Text and Accent Text elements to add more of your own style to the layouts, or follow the included tutorial slides to create or modify your own Sonoma-themed custom layouts. We’ve also included the legacy Overlay Objects from Sonoma 2 - a combination of a custom Keynote shape object paired with an overlay Shadow - which can be layered onto your slides to customize the area surrounding Sonoma’s “page” area via a change to the Overlay Shape’s fill.

Only With Keynote

Only Keynote gives you the power to create such striking, classically-styled presentations with aboslute ease. From the razor-sharp text and professional charting capabilities, to the wide range of native graphic format and alpha-channel support that give you unprecedented flexibility with your imagery and movies, Keynote provides you with the tools you need to present a classically-styled, print-inspired look with absolute ease. And thanks to the new native shape architecture, you can transform a Sonoma presentation from a simple, 2-color presentation into a full-color, photo or movie-rich presentation all your own with drag & drop ease - looking good every step of the way. Keynote makes it a snap, and Sonoma '08 makes it a pure delight for your audience's palette.

 

Eye-Catching Charts. An understated, professional chart palette rounds the Sonoma '08 style - with contrasting primaries and muted colors balanced in a solid-color style that translates well from screen to PDF or print.

Requirements

Sonoma '08 requires iWork '08 (Keynote 4.0) or higher, and the Helvetica Neue font face.

* Supplemental Materials file not included in stand-alone EP Edition downloads.
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