About pictures

Pictures, graphics, and art are some generic terms used to describe the elements in your documents that aren’t text (such as charts, illustrations, decorative elements, and photographs).

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Charts and graphs

Illustrations

Decorative elements

Photographs

To put a picture in a document you want to print, you first need to get it into an electronic form (a computer file). Then it’s simple to copy it into a document—the user’s guide for the software program you’re using tells you how. Here are some possibilities for getting your pictures into electronic form.

■Draw the pictures yourself, using the drawing tools in a software program.

■Use ready-made clip art—you can get it from a variety of sources, including the Internet and your software programs. See “Need a picture?” for more ideas.

■Scan the pictures yourself. Use your own scanner or gather your pictures and rent a scanner at a local copy shop.

Handy Hints

NEED A PICTURE?

Look through computer magazines for the names of companies that sell clip art. They’ll be happy to send you full-color pictures of their extensive offerings. Or browse in the art sections of bookstores for books of copyright- free pictures.

Remember that it is against the law to copy any photograph unless you have been given specific permission to do so by the person or company who owns the original.

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