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=kevin e. brooks=
 * Fiesta 2**

I use PaintShop Pro on a regular basis in my daily work but I am familiar with PhotoShop and iPhoto as well. To create the photos below, I used a combination of the above applications. The orginal work was done in PaintShop Pro. It's a very robust picture editor on par with PhotoShop- but I'm not sure it's commercially available any more. Then, for this class, I took the photos through PhotoShop again to see if I could duplicate the effects. I did and I must say that PaintShop Pro and PhotoShop rendered virtually the same results.

Grayscale
I reduced the color depth by converting the image to grayscale. In PhotoShop, this is accomplished by selecting Image-Mode-Grayscale. In iPhoto, it is done by selecting the photo and then clicking the B&W button.



Line Art
I was attempting to create a piece of clipart for an informational flier about the SHSL so the file size would be more manageable and so taht B&W laser pinters would retain the detail. So, I began adjusting the brightness/contrast and using various filters to find contours and edges as well as sharpen. This cannot be accomplished in iPhoto. PhotoShop and PaintShop Pro both allowed this kind of filtering.

Clipart
This final version never did quite make the cut as far as inclusion into an information flier. I used the lasso tool to outline the students in the photo and then deleted the books behind them so that they stand out a bit better.