1. A method, comprising: providing a presentation surface having multiple presentation tiles; receiving a control directive to associate a content file with a presentation tile; identifying a content file type for the content file; selectively extracting a portion of content from the content file based on rules concerning which content to extract from the content file based upon an available area within a defined region of the presentation tile and the content file type; generating a tile object based on the content portion; formatting the content portion within the defined region of the tile object; storing the presentation surface and tile object as a montage capable of navigation using a gesture interface; and deleting the tile object from the montage.