Image by: Me! (Thanks PowerPoint!)

Today we spent some time looking at different option for creating graphics and editing photos. Some of the programs I am somewhat familiar with, such as GIMP and Photoshop but I had never known about or even considered PowerPoint as an editing tool.

Because I am lucky enough to have access to Photoshop I have been able to play around with it a little but I found that the learning curve is massive. Even with the help of Youtube tutorials it took me a long time to do something as simple as isolating a part of an image and removing the background.

In the last 15 minutes of playing around with PowerPoint as an editing tool I was able to combine three images to create the image I posted above.  Its definitely not perfect but for my first time using the program and 15 minutes of effort I think its pretty good. It is certainly  much more user friendly than Photoshop.

This is definitely something I will continue to use going forward.