Keynote 6 Colorizing

As creative director of a prominent design agency I implemented Keynote as our main design tool years ago. Basic objects created with Photoshop and Illustrator could easily be manipulated in keynote. Sizes, hues and tints of jpg or png files could be altered and evaluated directly in Keynote.Text and vectorized symbols could be added in a similar fashion. Basic elements could even be designed in Keynote by using basic Keynote tools, shapes, gradients, etc.
Using Keynote as our main design tool has had fantastic results, and we've all been waiting for new utdates to this fantastic product.
Now I've checked out Keynote 6, and found that a couple of the most versatile tool have been changed:
• Colorizing: In the previous version, a jpg could be colorized in a rich way. A grey or desaturated image could be turned blazing red, grassy green, shining yellow or deep purple, or any other color. With Keynote 6 this possibility has disappeared. Although Temperature and Tint still are adjustable, they don't reach far enough. I think the Keynote folks have only had photographic images in need for slight adjustments in mind.
• Placeholder: When evaluating variations of a design, the image placeholder function is priceless. The new Keynote's placeholder function is limited to images from iPhoto, music & movies. All this can be solved by adding an option to place the current copied image to the placeholder.

Hello gradinc,
It is hard to say what this could be. If you are still getting prompts to upgrade Keynote, it may be trying to open an older version. I would try and delete Keynote and then download it again. I would also try to open it within Launchpad or opening it directly from the Mac App Store to see if the error comes up again. If it does let me know.
OS X Yosemite: Install, update, and uninstall apps
https://support.apple.com/kb/PH18752
Regards,
-Norm G.

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