Impressionist is a visual tool that enables you to create impress.js presentations in a visual, easy to use way. The drag and drop orchestrator will help define slide transitions visually.

Impressionist is conceptualized and developed by Harish Sivaramakrishnan (@hsivaram) and is under open development on github. Please feel free to watch / fork / log issues.

DEVELOPMENT NOTES 

The current version is alpha 3

Features

* WSWIYG slide authoring
* Google web fonts support for typography
* Text and Image support
* Copy + Paste support (CTRL + C & V) for object duplication
* Transform controls for slide elements
* Delete objects, Delete slides
* WSIWYG orchestration view
* 3D orchestration using controls
* Preview presentation
* Export presentation as ZIP
* Save presentation (source) to resume work.


The  preview is hosted at http://www.hsivaram.com/impressionist/alpha3. This is currently webkit only. Please use google chrome or safari to run the app. This has not been tested to a great deal on windows (blame it on me having only a mac) and I expect to find more issues on win than on mac. Please do log issues / feature requests in the issues section

CREDITS

Impressionist leverages the following libraries:

* Name for the project courtesy Anirudh Sasikumar (@anirudhs)
* Bartek Szopka's Impress.js (https://github.com/bartaz/impress.js/)
* Twitter's Bootstrap (http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/)
* jQuery & jQuery UI (http://jquery.com)
* Anthony Terrien's jQuery Knob (https://github.com/aterrien/jQuery-Knob)
* eyecon.ro's colorpicker (http://www.eyecon.ro/colorpicker/)
* Peter Nederlof's Playing with matrices (http://peterned.home.xs4all.nl/matrices/#1,0,0,1,0,0) [Adaptation] 
* Thomas Fuchs's Keymaster.js (https://github.com/madrobby/keymaster)