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Over the course of many years beginning with DOS and less powerful desktop publishing software, one acquires many handy little skills in manipulating text and graphics. Here is a work in progress for those ideas along with some clipart that you can use to get you going on that important design project.

For print

  1. Use serif font (i.e., Times, Times New Roman) when there is a lot of text in a document to hold the eye to the page. Use sans serif (i.e., Arial, Helvetica) if there are images throughout the text.

  2. When using Open Type fonts, remember that there are 2 types: 1 with a TrueType outline for everyday use and 1 with a Postscript outline that is required for printing  houses.

For web

  1. For images:

    • Use web-safe RGB colour mode if you want to guarantee that everyone will see the same colours as you on any browser or operating system. The 216 web-safe colours contain RGB values of 0, 51, 102, 153, 204, 255 or 0%, 20%, 40%, 60%, 80%, 100%.

    • Save photos as jpg files and diagrams/clipart as gif files unless you're familiar with png.

  2. For web-safe fonts:

    • Arial     Arial Black    Courier New     Comic Sans MS     Georgia     Helvetica Impact     Lucida Console     MS Sans Serif     MS Serif     Palatino Linotype     Tahoma     Times New Roman     Trebuchet MS     Verdana

    • Symbol (Symbol) ebdings (Webdings) Wingdings (Wingdings)

  1. Obfuscate your email address to prevent spammers:

    Type your email address in this box:
    Cut and paste the resultant mailto: tag into your HTML document.
    Change "email me" to whatever you want, except your/any real address or domain. 

  2. Alternative method of hiding your email address from the bots is to replace the @ sign with something like {at} so the reader knows to change it back for email. 

  3. Past copied html text or javascript code from a website into Notepad before pasting it into the html code of your page.

For Both

  1. Create original graphics at a minimum 300dpi and twice the size as needed if possible. Images for print require a higher resolution and you will retain image quality when you save down for the web at 72dpi. Otherwise, if you start with a 72dpi graphic and try to increase it to 300, the program will add the pixels resulting in poorer image quality.

  2. To clean up a poor quality jpg in Corel:

    •  import the image into a new document; convert it into a bitmap; sharpen it slightly

Cool Tech Clipart

Click on image to open in browser> right click on image> Save Picture As

  • RGB mode
  • 72dpi
  • transparent bkgd
  • royalty-free
  • free to use
  • PhotoShop
  • Cool 3D

phone150x202.gif (18658 bytes)  

powerbar150x129.gif (4857 bytes)  

underconstruct.gif (116073 bytes)

welcome-hwy.gif (15552 bytes) safe-hwy.gif (11740 bytes)

Phone

150x202

19k

Powerbar

150x129

5k

Under Const 

600x600

114k

Welcome

300x219

16k

Stay Safe

300x219

12k

gears2.gif (12303 bytes) gears3.gif (13849 bytes) bulb-off.gif (3219 bytes) bulb-on.gif (10546 bytes)

Animated Gears

125x125

53k

Animated Cube

125x125

25k

Gears

144x144

20k

Gears

300x300

14k

Bulb Off

133x184

4k

Bulb On

134x184

11k

Webdings Clipart

Click on icon to open image in browser> right click on image> Save Picture As

  • 72dpi

  • RGB mode

  • no matte

  • transparent

  • gif format

  • 220 images

  • 1-4kb each

  • royalty-free

  • free to use

  • Corel

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