Graphics
Graphic can be anything that is not considered a text even though some text can be graphics.
Some examples include:
Some examples include:
- Clip art Digital photographs from digital cameras or scanned from prints
- Original artwork created in image management software such as paint or photoshop
- Line art such as rules, boxes, or borders created by tools provided in desktop publishing programs
- Charts, graphs, or maps imported from other programs
- Photographs from digital cameras
- Artwork created in image software
Placement & Text Wrapping
When inserting graphics they may float over a page or be placed inline. Floating graphics are placed over the text and move with it. If you want the image and a line of text to remain connected, then choose the inline option. Below you see several options found in Microsoft Office 2010 products.
One way in which text and graphics can be combined is to wrap the text around the image. Text Wrapping is a standard feature of desktop publishing offering two options:
- Text may be wrapped by maintaining a rectangular border between the text and the graphic.
- Text may be wrapped so that the text and the graphic merge.
- Text may be wrapped by maintaining a rectangular border between the text and the graphic
- Text may be wrapped so the text and the graphics merge as one
Clip Art
Clip art is artwork supplied by the publisher of your desktop publishing software. In the past you had a book of images that you had to cut out and paste to a page. Those were in black and white but with clip art you won’t have any of those problems. Clip art provide many things and have draw backs. There are many clip art websites where clip art is available at a cost or free of charge
- Clip art provides a temptation to use a package such as Microsoft word may have been seen by readers so often that it loses its effectiveness.
- Clip art provided as part of a desktop publishing package may have copyright restrictions for use by businesses
File Types & Sizes
When documents will limit you to certain file types but print documents wont. Printers can print most all types but you have to be careful on the image size. If it is to big a printer may cut off parts or it won’t have the memory size to read it. Also images that are to big will slow a web page so you need to watch out for that.
Note that all desktop publishing software has the ability to import graphics; it may be called importing, inserting, or placing.
Note that all desktop publishing software has the ability to import graphics; it may be called importing, inserting, or placing.
Captions
- To explain a point made in the text of your document
- To summarize a point
- To add information not provided in the text
- To make an illustration more clear