Computer Info – July 31, 2002

This Week’s Meeting

Too many digital photos – no longer having film developed – no longer adding photos to your picture album – develop a new type of photo album by printing an 8 ½ by 11 sheet and grouping pictures together with a few captions (you know the notes that you would always write on the back of the photograph). By titling the page and placing a date on it – you always know what the pictures are about. We will demonstrate this in PhotoShop – but all photo editing programs will allow you to do something like this.

Protecting Pictures On Web Pages

There are ways of preventing someone from right-clicking on an image on a web page and copying or saving it.

A fairly common method is adding JavaScript code to your Web page. Such code is available on many sites, including The JavaScript Source ( http://javascript.internet.com ). Go to the site’s main page and enter keywords, such as “prevent right-clicks”, in the search engine. The results that return will provide code you can enter on your HTML document.

Using such a script is fairly easy to do and serves as an ample deterrent for most would-be thieves, users who are determined and knowledgeable may still be able to bypass the code and save the images. A user may be able to disable the JavaScript in his browser – or take a screenshot of the image.

Digital watermarks are another fairly strong form of image protection. A digital watermark is embedded onto the image and is invisible. The watermark would be viewable using the proper decoding software. The watermark can contain any information the creator wants to embed. Normally they are strong enough that cropping, altering or rescanning an image will substantially damage the image.

One of the best known watermarking software is Digimarc ( http://www.digimarc.com ). Digimarc watermarking means you can track your images and how they are being used. This is possible through the use of a Web spider that combs the Web looking for watermarked images.

Present Your Photos

How To Use Your Images In A PowerPoint Slide Show

(Info from PC Photos & Video by Smart Computing Learning Series)

(1) Set up

Starting PowerPoint is the first step. If the application’s task pane (to the right of the window) doesn’t display, click View and then Task Pane. Click Normal View, either from the View menu or using the Normal View button to the bottom left of the window. Display the Standard and Formatting toolbars. Do this by clicking View, Toolbars, and clicking Standard. Do the same for Formatting.

(2) Work with the AutoContent Wizard

Deciding what you want to say and how to say it is difficult. More often than not, the text portion of a presentation takes the most time to compose. The AutoContent Wizzard contains an impressive list of templates that provide suggested content for a variety of presentations.

In the New Presentation task pane, click the From AutoContent Wizard option in the New section. Follow the Wizard’s instructions. The Wizard will ask you about Presentation Type – Presentation Style – Presentation Options

(3) Add content in Outline View

The Normal View to the left of the window contains two tabs: Outline and Slides. Click the Outline tab. Here are tips for working with the Outline format:

n To replace text, simply highlight it and type over it.

n Place the pointer over a slide icon. When it turns to a four-headed arrow, drag the slide to a new position. To remove the slide, click the icon and press DELETE.

n To alter bulleted items, place the mouse pointer over a bullet. When it turns to a four-headed arrow, drag the item to a new position or press DELETE to remove it.

n Place the cursor before the text of a bulleted item. Press TAB to demote the item as a bullet of lesser importance. Press SHIFT-TAB to promote an item to a higher importance.

n Place the cursor at the end of a text item and press ENTER to add another item of the same importance.

(4) Choose a design

To change the presentation design, click Slide Design on the Format menu. The task pane will switch to Slide Design. Thumbnails of each design template appear. To apply a design to a single slide, click the Slides tab in the Normal View pane. Click a slide to select it. If you wish to use this background for all of your slides, then click the drop-down arrow for a desired design and select Apply To Selected Slides.

(5) Scroll the slide show

It’s time to view what you have done so far. You can edit the text or slide layout. Check for titles that may be too long – slides that have too much text. To move a block of text, click anywhere in the block. A diagonal-line border surrounds the block. Place the pointer over the border and use the four-headed arrow to drag the block.

(1) Add extras

Add objects to your slide show like digital photos and video clips.

Choose a slide from the left pane by clicking it. On the Format menu, click Slide Layout to display layout choices on the task pane. Layouts can include text only, graphics only or a combination of text and graphics. Adding objects, such as photos and video, can be easy or complicated. To add a photo, click the Picture icon in an object placeholder on the lisde. In the Insert Picture dialog box, select the location where the photo you have is stored using the Look In drop-down menu. To insert a video, click the Media Clip icon in the object placeholder on the slide. When you insert a video, PowerPoint will ask you if the video should play automatically or when you click it. You can also add clip art by clicking the Clip Art icon in an object placeholder.

(2) Automate

Let’s look at the slide show. On the Slide Show menu, click View Show. Or you can click Slide Show on the View menu or click the Slide Show icon on the lower-left side of the Normal View screen. These last two options start the show from the slide that is currently selected.

Once the show begins, click the button to advance through the slides. To end the show, press ESC.

Automating your slide show includes setting how the actual show will run. You can opt for an Automatic or Manual (advances by clicking with your mouse). Other automations include deciding how text and objects appear on slides (known as builds) and how slides transition from one to the next.

On the View menu, click Slide Sorter View. The Slide Sorter View shows a thumbnail of each slide in the slide show. On the task pane title bar, click the drop-down arrow. Click Slide Design—Animation Schemes or Slide Transition. To select one slide, click it. To select consecutive slides, click the first slide, press and hold the SHIFT key, and click the last slide. To select nonconsecutive slides, click the first slide, press and hold the CTRL key, and click each additional slide. To select all the slides press CTRL-A. From Slide Transitions, you can choose to advance slides manually or automatically.

(3) Create speaker notes

Even good speakers sometimes need notes for reference. In PowerPoint, you can use a pane at the bottom of the window in Normal View to display notes.

To add notes to a slide, display the slide you want in Normal View. Click in the Notes section below the slide work area and type the notes you want. Select and format the notes as you would in a word processing program.

(4) Add or modify headers and footers

Slides, outlines and notes pages can include headers and footers. On the View menu, choose Header and Footer. On the Header and Footer dialog box, click the Slide tab. Options include showing a date and time, slide number and footer text for all or individual slides. You can also opt to leave these choices off the title slide.

(5) Print and Show

Before you print your show, view it. To print it, click File and then Print. The Print dialog box lets you make selections in the Print What section including --- Slides (prints each slide on a separate sheet of paper) -- Handouts (choose the number of slides to print on each sheet of paper) -- Notes Pages (Prints one slide plus the corresponding notes for the slide on each sheet of paper)-- Outline View (prints the outline only, with no graphics)