drawing program recommendations?

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I'm looking for a rudimentary (inexpensive) drawing program that offers
features beyond MS Paint.

Specifically, I have several images that I want to import into a PowerPoint
presentation. These are .bmp images, and I want to make the backround
transparent.

Bernie
 
You might want to try Jasc's PaintShopPro. they have a free trial period. Check
it out here http://www.jasc.com/products/trialreg.asp?pid=k-psp8-usdir

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I'm looking for a rudimentary (inexpensive) drawing program that offers
features beyond MS Paint.

Specifically, I have several images that I want to import into a PowerPoint
presentation. These are .bmp images, and I want to make the backround
transparent.

Bernie
 
Thanks!

I didn't install this program when I loaded Office XP, but it does the
trick.

Bernie
 
If you really want a *drawing* program, Real-Draw Pro is hard to beat. It's
brilliant, easy to use, enormously powerful, comes with a ton of extras--and
cheap ($50).

If you are familiar with the old MS PhotoDraw that came with Office 2000
Premium, you may think of it as a PhotoDraw replacement on steroids.

Oscar has lots of other cool tools too.

www.mediachance.com
www.mediachance.com/realdraw
 
Thanks for the Reply. Your tutorials are very helpful. Using the one
referenced below, I find that my image has a white hairline per your
example. I'm using PP 2002SP3, MS Photo Editor 3.0.2.3. and Paint 5.1

"One way of finding the exact blue is to display your presentation in
powerpoint as a slideshow, do a screengrab with the "Print screen" key, then
paste this image into photoshop or paint shop pro, then use the "Eyedropper"
tool to find out what the color is."

Can I determine mathematical color coordinates using Photo Editor or Paint?

Bernie


TAJ Simmons said:
Bernie,

You may find that with MS Photo Editor....and powerpoints inbuilt
Click to expand...
transparency wand...you can make the image
 
Can I determine mathematical color coordinates using Photo Editor or Paint?
Click to expand...

If so, I can't see how. But with IrfanView (www.irfanview.com ... free!) you
can click anywhere in the image and it will display the color of the pixel for
you (watch the title bar)
 
I'd recommend GIMP, which is open source software that does an incredible job with photo editing and image creation
NEW version - 2.0 just released - will require a gtk runtime environment, also. (Supplied at site.

There's also a small (doesn't even need to be installed) program available at tinyapps.org that allows you to click on any screen color and it will automatically give you the hex#, rgb#, etc. for use in web pages - I don't remember the name, except that it began with 'n'..

-LJK
 
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