Monday, September 22, 2008

Digital Photo tools: getpaint and Faststone

Photo applications from JJ (and only 1.6 MB)

Paint program (like Photoshop/Paintshop) Retrieved September 22, 2008 from http://www.getpaint.net/

It started development as an undergraduate college senior design project mentored by Microsoft, and is currently being maintained by some of the alumni that originally worked on it. Originally intended as a free replacement for Microsoft Paint.

Image viewer Retrieved September 22, 2008 from http://www.faststone.org/

Animage browser, converter and editor that supports all major graphic formats including BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA. It has a nice array of features such as image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping, color adjustments, musical slideshow and much more.

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

A commentary of the relevance of images in a presentation

Although imagine if it was just John McCain in front of a blank screen - would this be better or worse??

http://www.presentationzen.com/presentationzen/2008/09/john-mccains-background-visuals.html