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VOLUME 23, NUMBER 1

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Clip-art adds extra spark to your publications. It can liven up your pages, attract attention to specific EDITING articles, and illustrate the meaning of your text. Most of the time, you can find just what you need in The Newsletter Newsletter. But occasionally clip-art an article would be enhanced by a piece of customized clip-art. For these times, editing existing clip-art is the solution. Many programs, such as Microsoft Word, Adobe Photoshop and CorelDraw, offer editing options Microsoft Word Tool Bar Crop Line style Text wrapping Format picture that are effective and easy to use. They allow you to remove type, add type and combine images to produce person’s name, the title of a specific limited image-editing capabilities. specialized effects. You can add a church event or any unique idea to Nonetheless, they can still be beneficial. artwork you want to present in A cropping tool can be very useful your newsletter. because it allows you to cut off por- To get started, here are some tions of an image. For instance, you specific ways different kinds of pro- can delete text from a piece of clip- grams can edit images. To find out art or cut off a portion that is not what specific tools your program useful. If cropping does not get rid of offers, refer to your software manual an unwanted area, try using a white or onscreen help menu. box to cover the area. Then you can add new text to the Desktop Publishing image. For example, a birthday [Cropped] programs graphic with a “Happy Birthday!” caption can quickly become a cus- Microsoft Word, PageMaker, tom greeting that says, “Happy Microsoft Publisher and other desk- 100th Birthday to Millie Williams!” top publishing (DTP) programs have Keep in mind that with desktop publishing programs the new text does not actually become part of the image, although it appears that way when you print it. Another technique to consider is combining images. Using this kind of program, simply place clip-art A cropping tool can be very useful because it allows you to cut off portions images close together or overlap of an image. For instance, you can delete I will sing aloud of them in layers, if possible. This cre- text from a piece of clip-art or cut off a your steadfast love ates endless possibilities for art. portion that is not useful. Final cropping can get rid of any in the morning. unwanted material that remains. —Psalm 59:16 You can also use white boxes to Continued on page 2 crop out unwanted areas. The [With white box] [With new text] black rule shows you where the white box covers the text.

1 Continued from page 1 Corel Draw Tool Bar copied from one image to Image-editing another. These Pick programs image-editing pro- grams are also ideal Shape Crop In image-editing for combining programs such as images. The marquee Lasso PhotoShop, Photo- tool or lasso tool can Paint and Image Paint be used to select the brush Composer, area you wish to bitmap images Original artwork Eraser Pencil copy. Then you Rectangle such as TIFF, GIF can paste it into or JPEG can be another picture. edited, using a few Portions of an image more options. can also be copied Cropping tools, simi- and pasted back into lar to those in desktop the original picture to publishing programs, repeat elements. Tex t can be used to Paint remove unwanted Drawing Bucket type or portions of the picture. Programs In addition, image- CorelDraw, Adobe editing programs pro- Illustrator, Freehand Expanded artwork vide the options of or other drawing/ erasing areas with an illustration pro- eraser tool, cutting grams allow vector Outline and deleting elements images such as using a marquee tool WMF and EPS to be Fill or a lasso tool, or fill- edited and created. ing areas with back- To remove type or other ground color using a portions of the art, you can usually fill tool, paint bucket Adobe select it with an arrow tool, tool or a pencil Photoshop then delete it. A text tool Tool Bar tool. With these allows you to add fonts of

Condensed artwork

Artwork can be stretched or condensed with a drawing program.

Similar to image-editing programs, these drawing programs are also use- ful when combining images. The pick tool or select tool can be used to choose the area you wish to copy. Parts of an image can be filled using a paint bucket tool. An eraser tool can be used to Again, an entire image or just por- delete unwanted elements. tions of it can be copied, then pasted various sizes directly to the image. into another picture. Portions can also be copied and pasted back into the possibilities, you can greatly alter What is unique to these programs is original picture to repeat elements. any image. that text can also be resized, Type can also be added directly to stretched, condensed and have other Each program has its own special- the image using a text tool. For vari- special effects applied to it. Text can ties, but all offer some options to ety, try using the different fonts and also be copied from one image to enhance your library of clip-art. sizes of text that are usually avail- another. Experiment with different Take the opportunity to explore what able. In addition, text can also be fonts to see what you can create. clip-art can do for your publication. —Rebecca Purdum

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