Graphics & Imaging

• About Color - Projected Light (RGB) vs. Reflected Light
• Adding images to Success Stories
• Introduction to Halftones and Scanning - Adobe Technical Guide
• Image editing Programs:
  • GIMP
    • You don't have GIMP? Download & Install GIMP
    • Tutorials from GIMP.org
    • Grokking the GIMP - tutorial & reference info from gimp-savvy.com
    • Using GIMP's Plugins - examples
    • GIMP User Manual & Color Section
    • The GIMP for Windows Website
    • GIMP for Windows FAQs
    • The Official GIMP Website
  • Adobe Photoshop
    • The Official Adobe Photoshop Website
    • Tutorials from Adobe
    • Photoshop Features In Depth
    • Photoshop FAQs
    • Photoshop Technical Guides
    • Laurie McCanna's Photoshop Tips & Tricks
• Tutorials & Reference
  • Bandwidth Conservation Society - information on preparing images for the web
• Clip Art
  • See listing of available clipart files including maps, icons and logos.
  • How to Save a Clipart file in Netscape 
  • Common ACES Web Images - Please link to these images where they already reside online rather than making duplicate copies of them for your own web directories.
    For example, use the code: <IMG SRC="http://www.aces.edu/pic/yourimage.jpg">
• Copyright Issues
  • The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 - U.S. Copyright Office Summary
  • Educause Copyright Information
• Staff Photos for County Webpages
  • County staff photos should be 135 pixels X 200 pixels at 72 dpi. They should be named using the county name with the first letter capitalized and saved in "jpeg" format using the capitalized ".JPG" file extension such as "Lee.JPG". The files should be uploaded to the "pic" directory in the county web directory.
• Screen Captures - Ever needed to grab an image of something on your computer screen? It's easy!
  • Windows - Hold down the "Alt" key and hit the "Print Screen" key. By default, this will take a snapshot of the active window on your screen and save it to your clipboard. If you want everything on screen including more than just the active window, click on the desktop to select it before hitting "Alt+Print screen". You can then open any graphics program or Word or Wordpad, etc. and paste the image. If the captured image is more than you need, just crop and edit as needed in your image editing program.
  • Macintosh - On a Macintosh running Operating Systems 7 through 9.1 you simply press the following keys similtaniously to capture the entire contents of the computer screen: "COMMAND (the apple/cloverleaf key) + SHIFT + 3 (the number three key)"! By pressing those three keys at the same time you will capture an exact copy of the computer screen at a given moment. You will know that an image has been captured because you will hear a shutter click that sounds like a 35mm camera. Once you hear the shutter click, a copy of the screen will be encapsulated into a file called a PICT (short for Picture File - a native Macintosh File Format) and saved in the first level of your hard drive. When you open your hard drive, a file called "Picture 1" will exist in the Hard Drive and can be opened using SimpleText or any image editing program like Photoshop.