The Power of PowerPoint

PowerPoint is an extremely useful tool for photographers, in that it can crop pictures, resize them, and lighten or darken them. It can also be used to create "logos" or other jpg files which can be uploaded to your wiki, blog or web page, and it can be used to create very effective templates. The following is a short lecture showing how to make logs from your own favorite pictures with PPT.

Capturing the Mind's Eye

These before and after pictures were taken on Ogle's Meadow, Yancey County, North Carolina, just this week. Several tools including brightness/contrast, color balance, and hue/saturation were used, along with the quick selection and lasso tools.