If at a certain moment we are proposed to carry out a 'slide show', Almost inescapably the name "Microsoft PowerPoint" will come to mind.
But it could happen that at that very moment, we do not have this module of the office suite at hand and therefore, we must go to any other free resource to "get out of trouble"; perhaps at that time you will be grateful for what we are going to suggest at this time, because we have come across an interesting online application that has the name of Struty, which has a large number of features that we will surely know how to take advantage of perfectly well and creatively.
Alternatives to use with Strut for our image slides
Obviously we must clarify from this moment, that Strut will not have all those functions that you may have discovered in Microsoft PowerPoint, although it does have very interesting functions and of which we will mention some in this article.
The first thing you have to do is go to the link of Strut's official website, where even you will have the opportunity to admire three little tutorials, which are already telling us what this web application can do for us. Primarily, there is reference to the possibility of creating the image slideshow, although the potential of this tool goes much further since we could even use video files or web pages, all in the very style of a presentation professional multimedia.
When we are on the official Strut website, we just have to press the red button to start a new project. The interface of this online tool will appear in the same browser window, where we will use a few functions from the toolbar that is displayed horizontally and at the top of this entire interface:
- Text.
- Image.
- Video.
- Websites.
- Shapes.
- Background.
- Surface.
All these elements are what you will find in the toolbar located at the top, being able to select one of them or all of them depending on the project you are going to carry out. For example, if you are going to choose the «text» tool, A cursor will appear in the middle of the window for you to start typing immediately. Besides that, you will also have the possibility to choose the vertices to change the size of the text; as if that were not enough, if you double click on the text you have generated, a few additional options will appear that will allow you to change the color of the text, the typography, the size of the font among a few other options.
Towards the left side, all those pages that we are generating in our slide show will be shown. As in PowerPoint, a "+" sign is displayed at the bottom of each box (representing a page), icon to which we must select to create a new page.
There is no limit in the generation of pages and texts, something that will surely appreciate our creativity; Now, a very interesting element that we cannot fail to highlight is located towards the upper right side, where a box with the name of «summary»Will allow us to change the display of our slideshow.
For example, we can review all the pages as boxes, which can be sorted in different ways depending on how we want that presentation to be shown. The green button that says «impress»Will help us to generate the slide, which will be displayed in a new browser tab and full screen. If the entire project that we have generated has come to please us, then we could easily save it anywhere.
For this we will only have to use the button with the «Strut»Which is located towards the upper left side; A few options will appear right there, from which we must choose the one that will allow us save the project locally; This is a great idea, since if we have developed an excellent project with Strut, at the same time we could save it on the USB pendrive and later, recover it on a different computer as long as we go to this online tool.