A great slide show with audio titled “Venus Rising” was produced by the New York Times about seven years ago using iMovie. This week we’ll build a simple slide show using SlideShowPro Director. (iMovie comes free with Macs. I’m not aware of an iMovie equivalent for PC’s. Let me know if you find one.)

And speaking of audio, we’ll discuss copyright laws relating to use of music in slide shows.

Also, please sign up for an account at YourHub. You will be posting a short news item on that site for the Citizen Journalism assignment.

Most blog interfaces, including blogger.com, will transform photos during upload for web presentation. As shown in class, the important elements for using Photoshop to manually transform a photo include:

• checking Image–>Mode to make sure the image is RGB
• using Image–>Adjustments–>Brightness/Contrast if needed
• using Image–>Image Size to set the resolution to 72 pixels/inch.
• using Image–>Image Size to adjust height and width. Remember that an image can be sized smaller in a web page, but not larger.