Daily Dose of DTP: 38. Cut the Clip Art Clutter

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Daily Dose of DTP 38. Cut the Clip Art Clutter From Jacci Howard Bear, your Guide to Desktop Publishing Sure, a picture is worth a thousand words, yadda, yadda, yadda. But a picture is worthless if it interferes with the message your document is meant to convey. And to be honest, there's an awful lot of what passes for "clip art" that has very little art about it and deserves to be clipped right off the page. Class Notes: This is not simply a word-a-day course. The lessons follow a specific order in roughly the following groupings: General concepts > Things you need > Font specifics > Image specifics > Prepress & Printing > Rules & Tutorials (bold indicates the stage in which this lesson falls) Rule #10 of Desktop Publishing Use Less Clip Art Clip art is wonderful, abundant, and fun to use. It can spice up fliers, newsletters, and posters. But you probably realize by now that there's a downside to all that wonderful clip art... Today's Trivia Say Cheese! You may have seen the term cheesy applied to clip art, as in "Look at all that cheesy clip art he used." Cheesy is not what you want people calling your clip art choices. But exactly what is cheesy clip art. The dictionary calls cheesy "poor quality, shoddy, inadequate." In terms of clip art we can take it a step further. Any piece of clip art, even it is of good quality, is cheesy if it is overused or used inappropriately. 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 'Daily Dose of DTP' 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