Subj : Re: Power Point
To   : JAY EMRIE
From : Alan Zisman
Date : Fri Sep 09 2005 12:47 am

-=> JAY EMRIE wrote to ALL <=-

 JE> I finally decided to try out Power Point (hereafter PP) tonight.
 JE> First time ever. I finally made a slide show (of sorts) and managed to
 JE> actually make it work. Tomorrow I will hook up my digital projector to
 JE> the laptop and see if I can present the slide show using it.

 JE> This is in preparation to trying to get our camera club to get into
 JE> digital photography a bit deeper. As of now the only digital doings by
 JE> most members is making digital prints from either their slide scans or
 JE> digital camera images.

 JE> PP wasn't nearly as complicated as others have lead me to believe.

 PP is reasonably straight-ahead, though MS seems to change parts of the 
interface with each version. Note that you can create exported versions that 
can include a run-time EXE to play it on systems that don't have PP installed. 
Note as well that while you can export presentations to web pages, the websites 
that the current version of PP create (I can't comment on earlier versions) 
only run on IE.

 Because of that, when I need to export PP presentations to the web, I use 
OpenOffice.org's presentation module-- which reads PP files, and exports 
smaller, more universally-readable HTML pages.

 If your camera club members are just starting to get involved with digital 
photography, you might want to point them in the direction of three free 
applications:

-- Picasa (www.picasa.com - owned by Google) is "software that helps you 
instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC." - photo album 
software with some editing options, export albums as web pages, etc.

-- Irfanview (www.irfanview.com) offers lots of handy options: resize, crop, 
convert file format, adjust brightness/contrast/colour balance, etc, along with 
perhaps the best print dialogue around.

-- Serif PhotoPlus 6.0 (www.freeserifsoftware.com) is one of a series of 
last-generation for free products from this company that markets 
reasonably-priced DTP, web design, vector, bitmap, and 3D graphics editing 
products. (Worth checking out all their free versions).
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