9-Day Make a Greeting Card Class: Graphics Selection

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9-Day Make a Greeting Card Class Graphics Selection From Jacci Howard Bear, your Guide to Desktop Publishing Think you know what a graphic is? Today we'll find out. You'll also discover there's more to graphics selection than just finding a piece of clip art that you like. This is Lesson 4 in the 9-Day Create a Greeting Card Class. If you did not receive or lost a previous lesson, retrieve it here: Missing Lessons Definitions What is a Graphic? In addition to the basic definitions for graphics, clip art, and graphics style, explore the expanded definitions for Clip Art, Border, Dingbat, Downrule, End Sign, Graph, Lines, and Rule. Instruction A Matter of Style In addition to sources for graphics, this lesson looks at how to mix and match multiple pieces of clip art or other images. Be sure to examine the images linked in the last few paragraphs of this lesson. Assignment Find Your Image Take as long as you need to go through the clip art and photos that came with your software or other image collections you own. Find the graphics you want to use on your greeting card. Keep graphics style in mind. Don't miss the exercise included near the end of this lesson. DTP Classroom Have questions about where to find the best clip art collections? Ask in the classroom forum. Related Tutorials & Resources of Interest Images for Desktop Publishing Looking for more sources for clip art and photos for your greeting card and other projects? Start here. You'll also find tutorials on how to pick the right pictures and how to place pictures into desktop publishing software. This email is written by: Jacci Howard Bear Desktop Publishing Guide Email Me | My Blog | My Forum   Missing a lesson? Click here. About U. is our collection of free online courses designed to help you learn a new skill, solve a problem, get something done, or just learn more about your world. Sign up now, and we will email you lessons on a daily or weekly basis. You are receiving this email because you subscribed to the About.com '9-Day Make a Greeting Card Class' email. If you wish to unsubscribe, please click here. About respects your privacy: Our Privacy Policy Contact Information: 249 West 17th Street New York, NY, 10011 © 2010 About.com   Advertisement