Subj : Re: Power Point
To   : JAY EMRIE
From : Alan Zisman
Date : Fri Sep 09 2005 08:34 pm

-=> JAY EMRIE wrote to ALAN ZISMAN <=-

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

You're right... Powerpoint (and OpenOffice.org Presentations and others of that 
ilk) aren't designed for great photo display; rather they're for mixing text 
and graphics to accompany a talk.

Both Picasa and Irfanview can be used to display full-screen shows, using all 
the images in a folder. Certainly these sort of shows look better on screen, in 
my experience, than a Powerpoint presentation-- and don't require much work to 
put together... certainly MUCH less than creating a PP file-- especially if the 
contents of the folder is subject to change.

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

It wasn't clear to me when I responded earlier that you were specifically 
looking for software for display of photos only...
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