Thoughts and impressions of happenings in the world of PowerPoint and presentations, continuously updated since 2003.
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As President of Grass Roots Software, Lou Dooros‘ primary role is in securing partnerships to advance the use of Grass Roots Software technology in a broad range of vertical markets and business to business solutions. Grass Roots Software creates Freepath, a new tool that creates presentation playlists from PowerPoint presentations, and several other document and media file formats.
In this interview, Lou discusses Freepath, PowerPoint, and non-linear presentations.
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Tagged as: Freepath, Interviews, Lou Douros, PowerPoint
This book extract is from Beyond Bullet Points, a book that teaches how you can use PowerPoint to tell visual stories without using bullet points. Author Cliff Atkinson uses his three-step approach to help readers discover how they can combine the tenets of classic storytelling with the power of projected media to create a rich, engaging experience.
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Tagged as: Books, Cliff Atkinson, PowerPoint
Have you wondered why some pictures show jaggies on the edges when they are resized larger. Or why some pictures don’t show jaggies when enlarged? Those jaggies have more to do with the type of graphics you’re resizing, and broadly speaking, there are two types of computer graphics: bitmaps and vector graphics. If you use graphics often, understanding these two formats, their differences, and how they are created is essential. To put in a nutshell, bitmap graphics get the jaggies when they are resized. And vector graphics can be resized to any extent without the pixelated jaggies.
Learn about the differences between Bitmaps and Vector Graphics.
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Tagged as: Bitmap Graphics, Digital Cameras, Drawing, Graphics, Illustration, Photography, Photoshop, Pictures, Pixels, PowerPoint, Vector Graphics
Whatever be the numbers or skills, no one disagrees with the fact that many PowerPoint presentations do fail to leave an impact on the audience. And that’s exactly what Jeff Van West tackles in his Effective Presentations tutorial that I’m reviewing. Effective Presentations is a movie-based tutorial from Lynda.com that’s available both on CD-ROM and an online movie library.
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Tagged as: Books, PowerPoint, Training, Tutors
O’Reilly Media announced the 2006 O’Reilly Photoshop Cook-Off, a contest featuring eighteen top Photoshop experts as judges including Mikkel Aaland, Katrin Eismann, Harris Fogel, Tim Grey, Deke McClelland, Bert Monroy, Eddie Tapp, Vincent Versace, and John Beardsworth, among others.
O’Reilly is aiming to inspire creativity and discover new and promising talent from the ranks of the 4,000,000 plus Photoshop users. The winners will be recognized with awards and fabulous prizes which will be presented at an event at PhotoPlus Expo in New York on November 2, 2006.
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