I gave two talks on using graphics with LaTeX. The slides, in source and PDF format, are available here.PDF of my first talk: attachment:graphics-talk-1.pdf , and LaTeX source (and images) of my first talk: attachment:sd9-talk-1.tar.gz
One warning: you really need PGF/TikZ version 2.00 to compile the slides. Right now, TeXShop doesn't include this, and nor does Ubuntu. I have no idea what the state of affairs is with Windows. To fix this in OS X:
download [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgf/ PGF]
extract the package. You get a directory pgf-2.00
create the directories ~/Library/texmf/tex/generic
move the pgf-2.00 directory into the generic directory you just created.
in a terminal, go to the ~/Library/texmf directory and run "texhash ." (note the dot!)
In Ubuntu, it's almost the same thing, but create a directory /usr/local/share/texmf/tex/generic and put the PGF package there, just as above, and run "sudo texhash ." from the texmf directory.
In Windows you are on your own.
This all seems very complicated, and it is because (1) a complete TeX system relies on tens of thousands of files, and (2) the system for finding the right file dates to the 80's.
[Nils Bruin] There is actually an easy way of putting animations in pdf-presentations created by LaTeX. See the [:days9/PDFLaTeXAnimations: LaTeX animations] page.