project home page
• introduction
• background & more information
finding the images you need
• on-line galleries
• scanning
• making your own
• taking your own
digital image sizes
• digital image sizes
• resolution
• file size
• e-mail
• copyright
adding images to documents
• position
• cropping
• enhancement
• paper size
• posters
image file types
• jpg or gif
• transparency
screen prints and clip art
• screen prints
• clip art
the problems with text
• fonts
• line length
• emphasis
• text boxes
• text images
free tools
• text
• drawing
• image editing
• web page design

If it’s not a photograph you need and you can’t find the ideal graphic then you can try making your own. Word™ and PowerPoint™ have a useful Drawing toolbar which provides access to a wide range of ready-made shapes as well as freeform drawing tools

No special artistic skill is required for any of these examples – if you haven’t experimented with what the Drawing toolbar can offer then give it a try. The images formed can be copied and pasted easily into another document if required. If you want to save them as individual image files then use PowerPoint rather than Word where the option to save as a gif or jpg file is available.

You may also have some dedicated drawing software on your computer and OpenOffice™ has an excellent and free element for this in its Microsoft™-challenging set of software.

More details on how to create your own images in either Office programs or in commercial alternatives can be provided on request but are beyond the scope of this project.