Tech talk: 3 Applications to help you boost your slides
Slideware doesn't always offer the right features to visualize presentations. In this post I present Gimp, Inkscape, and Blender, 3 free multi-platform applications to take your visuals to the next level. Slideware offers limited features to create that diagram that you want, or to manipulate that image in the way you want. But you don't have to settle for that ugly looking diagram or unwanted photo effect, let the multi-platform Open Source Software help you. Maybe you have heard about The GIMP, which is a similar application to Adobe Photoshop. If you haven't, take a look here . Gimp is free and runs in Windows, Linux, and Mac ... and it is powerful. It is so powerful that it can be intimidating. From all of the free resource to learn how to use it, or to bring it to the next level I recommend these two sites: Grokking the GIMP is a book available online and can be downloaded. Meet the GIMP is an excellent blog on GIMP with tutorials and articles. If you