Goleta DeskTop Publishing User Group
Meeting Information

September 6 -- MGI PhotoSuite 4, VideoWave 4, & PhotoVista Virtual Tour
by David Whittle

We have the good fortune to have David Whittle, a representative from MGI, demonstrate the following MGI products:

MGI PhotoSuite 4 Platinum Edition lets you capture, touch up, organize, show, and share your photos. With it you can turn your photos into greeting cards, personal calendars, certificates, and much, much more. It also allows you to create personal Web pages in minutes, complete with 360-degree Panoramas and animated GIFs. The program includes tools for organizing photo, video, and audio files in a wide variety of industry-standard formats into easy-to-search albums, for presenting photos in multimedia slide shows, and for sharing photos and creations through e-mail or a free photo-sharing web site.

MGI VideoWave 4 lets you quickly and easily capture, edit, and produce videos on your computer for presentations, content for the Web, or to spice up home movies. With VideoWave you can easily combine video clips, transitions, photos, special effects, music, and narration to "tell a story" in video. VideoWave is aimed at the non-technical, general business or home user.

MGI PhotoVista Virtual Tour is an easy-to-use suite for creating interactive Web sites. Now Web designers can create virtual tours complete with controlled-motion panoramas, audio and 3D image objects. Let your site visitors zoom, rotate or pick up merchandise and other objects. Add hotspots that link to other images, locations and scenes, allowing visitors to explore your online world -- no plug-ins needed.

If you have been wondering what these products are like and whether they will meet your needs, come and see them demonstrated by an expert. Be sure to bring questions!

Please send email to gdtpug@troutcom.com with suggestions for topics you are interested in seeing covered. Or even better, volunteer to give a presentation!

The Goleta DeskTop Publishing Users Group is a SIG (Special Interest Group) of the Santa Barbara PC Users Group. We are not platform specific: some members have PCs, some have Macs, some have both. Linux and other systems are sprinkled in as well for good measure. We focus on the issues of publishing in all forms, be it on paper, web, CD-ROM, or some other medium.