Episode 17: Creating Unique Desktop Pictures & PowerPoint Backgrounds

In Episode 17, using Photoshop's filters, D.Lee shows how to easily create your own unique picture from scratch that you can use as a computer desktop picture or a background for PowerPoint slides. Watch this video to learn how to avoid those old boring PowerPoint templates that everyone has seen way too many times before. Stand out from the crowd, make ours unique, and dare to "think different".

This video podcast ("vodcast") is available in the older mp4 format & in a higher quality H.264 fromat (requires QuickTime 7 Player installed). Click on one of the links below to view the video (or to view the video in a resizable window, right-click on the link and choose "Download Linked File" from the resulting pop-up menu then open in your player).

Hosts: D.Lee Beard & Brandon Jackson

Camerawork: Nisha Josson, Daryl Royer

 

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(MEDIUM QUALITY Quicktime 6 compatible version - MP4)
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