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S Giannavola

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PubMed2001

Adding power to PowerPoint. Add-ons and plug-ins.

Microsoft's PowerPoint (PPT) has been around for about ten years. It works on both the Macintosh and Windows platforms. Many users have a Macintosh at home and a Windows PC in the office and files can be easily transferred. Presentations magazine estimated that 85 percent of all presentations given in the U.S. last year used PPT. These presentations can be done as 35 mm slides, black and white or color overhead transparencies, electronic lectures or the software can be used to produce pages for Web sites. PPT has become the "Swiss Army Knife" for presenters and can be found everywhere. Since PPT has such a large share of the marketplace, a secondary market has developed to cater to PPT users who need something that didn't come in the box. These products are referred to as add-ons or plug-ins. They are available as commercial products, shareware or even directly from Microsoft. This article will look at several of these add-ons and discuss their possible use in a health care media production environment.

Computer Graphics↗
PubMed2001

Converting a large photographic negative collection to digital form.

Like many media production facilities in recent years, we at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences' Media Services have made the transition from silver and wet photographic processes to digital production methods. During that process we found that many of our products had to be transferred from traditional to digital form. One major asset we had was a portrait negative file that contained about 13,000 photographic negatives of nearly 6,000 individuals. These negatives were of individuals currently on staff or who had had their portrait taken while on staff in the past. The oldest of these negatives went back twenty years. About 65 percent of the collection consisted of 4 x 5 black and white negatives and the rest evenly distributed between 120 and 35 mm film formats. Less than 20 percent of the entire collection was color.

Arkansas↗
PubMed1996

Digitized media--we used to call it clip art.

One major problem when dealing with thousands of images is finding the exact image that you want to use. All of the packages reviewed in this article come with a printed catalog of thumbnail sketches of the various individual images, as well as an electronic image browser that will call up on the screen selected images that fulfill specific search criteria.

Computers↗