RE: Video vs The Written Word

["Al Geist" <al -dot- geist -at- geistassociates -dot- com>]

Rick Stone wrote: 

"Just playing Devil's Advocate here, but let's just say that you are
attempting to coax the user into turning a knob that is located among a very
complex maze of other similar objects. And further, assume that nothing
currently exists in the form of photographic help. If I were the person
needing assistance with locating said knob, I would cheerfully and
gratefully appreciate ANY form of photo that simply showed me where the darn
thing was, using a callout, as opposed to reading three paragraphs of text
that explain where it may be located."


Photoshop and Illustrator (or CorelDraw and Photopaint) are excellent tools
for taking a marginal photograph and making it extremely useful, including
removing extraneous garbage and adding callouts.  If you save the photos as
TIFFs or PSDs for archival purposes and also as a JPG, you can use the JPG
easily in any video.  I use them all the time in videos and they look great.


Al Geist
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