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The download for the book review PowerPoint file doesn’t seem to be working correctly (for Mac). In lieu of that, here are my individual slides:

So, PowerPoint is okay. My classmates did some cool things that might be worth figuring out how to do if I ever have to use the program again. In any case, here is my final presentation. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to comment!

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Now you see it:

Now you don’t:

So far, my presentation is involving Photoshop more than I thought it would. My book is an awkward shape for the scanners I have access to (being about an inch wider/taller than the scanner beds), so all of the whole page images I’ll be using in my presentation (as backgrounds) involved a series of scans, pieced together in Photoshop. The samples here were scanned in three pieces. Tonight I am thankful for arbitrary rotating and masks!

Tomorrow is my PowerPoint day. I have my presentation outline written, but I haven’t yet taken the time to figure out how to make PowerPoint work for me. During class last Thursday, we read an article that David Byrne (of Talking Heads) wrote: Learning to Love PowerPoint. He seems quite excited about the program, but I’m not entirely convinced I will be.

(These images are samples from Kristin Cullen’s [the author's] designs.)

Wow. It probably took me too long to figure out how to add a customized background to my PowerPoint presentation—like I said, I have never really spent any quality time with PowerPoint. However, what I’m really proud of is how I was able to extract all of the title text from the book cover so I could even think about using it as a background. Now I need to spend some quality time with my book so I can think about continuing to build my presentation.