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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

3. 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. 

4. 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. 

5. 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

Phone

150x202

19k

Powerbar

150x129

5k

Under Const 

600x600

114k

Welcome

300x219

16k

Stay Safe

300x219

12k

Animated Gears

125x125

53k

Animated Cube

125x125

25k

Gears

144x144

20k

Gears

300x300

14k

Bulb Off

133x184

4k

Bulb On

134x184

11k