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Edit or Modify Graphics for Use in Desktop Publishing

Crop it, convert it, flip and turn it, colorize, mask, filter, or otherwise change images. Learn how to combine clip art and photos, remove backgrounds, redeye, or elements from scans or digital photographs. Edit and modify images for use in page layout and graphic design projects.
10 Step Picture Prep
Graphics Software Guide Sue Chastain offers a start-to-finish guide to photo processing from saving your image initially to saving a final copy for output - with all the steps that come in between. Includes related tutorials for each step.
10 Ways to Modify Clip Art
You don't have to rely on just what's available in your clip art collections. After you've determined that you need to use clip art to enhance a layout, discover easy ways to modify canned clip art to increase its usefulness. Flip, resize, rotate, distort, crop, colorize, convert, and combine multiple pieces of clip art into new pictures to use in desktop publishing.
5 Ways to Use and Modify Dingbat Fonts
The simple shapes and pictures found in dingbat fonts make them especially useful in logo design or as icons or symbols in newsletters, books, brochures, or other types of publications. Look at 5 ways to use dingbat fonts more effectively.
Determine the Perfect Format for Your Photo Files
Choose the right format based on what you're going to do with your images.
Drop Shadows
Preserve the illusion of depth with tips for more realistic shadows.
Histogram
Learn what this common graphics software tool tells you and how to use its information to correction photgraphic images. Explained by Guide Sue Chastain.
How to Combine a Color and Black and White Image
There are two basic methods for combining a color and a black and white or grayscale image into one image.
Improve Your Image
Sue Chastain shows you how to brighten your teeth, remove red eye, and give yourself a digital facelift using several different popular graphics software programs including Photoshop and Photo-Paint.
Messing With Perspective
Dave Johnson describes how to fix pictures of buildings that look all askew.
Modifying Graphics in Page Layout Software
Why is it Not OK to Resize, Rotate Graphics in a Page Layout Program? Resizing, rotating or flipping, and cropping images in a page layout program can create larger files, increase processing time, and cause output problems with the digital file.
Multiple Images
There are easy ways to use the same image over and over without being boring. Explore 3 techniques to mulitiply the effectiveness of your clipart.
Posterization
Is Posterization a Good or Bad Thing in a Photograph? Posterization is an effect that uses a limited color palette or range of tones. A posterized image doesn't have subtle gradients or continuous tones; no smooth transition from one color to the next. Posterization can be intended or unintended.
Resizing Your Digital Photos
You don't want them too big but when you go smaller you can lose quality. Learn how to do it right.
The Many Faces of Black and White
Learn how to convert a color photograph to black and white. There are several approaches.
Transforming Color Pictures to Black and White
While color is pleasant, there's a certain elegance to black and white that keeps artists coming back to it. Armed with your digital camera, you can make your own black-and-white masterpiece.

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