Subj : Re: Power Point
To   : ALAN ZISMAN
From : JAY EMRIE
Date : Fri Sep 09 2005 11:16 am

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

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

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

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

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

We have already determined that PP will NOT project the quality of
picture suitable for competition. Picasa, Irfamview and Serif are image
modification applications, not high quality image projection programs.
At least that is the consensus of several of our members who are
reasonably up on things. I already have Picasa. Great for it's intended
purpose.
 In club competitions, the ability to resize, crop etc. is not
usable DURING the competition - that must be done BEFORE the images are
submitted for competition projection.

Most of the members doing digital entries already have Photoshop or one
of the above mentioned programs.

I will present your thoughts to the membership for the benefit of those
that haven't already obtained a program. Could well be a good starting
point for many.

Thanks a lot for the info.

Jay

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

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

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

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

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