Using Images from a CD

Great images,

But some potential pitfalls!

This is a photograph from a CD

This is a photoof a typicalCD-ROM user.

Notice his highforehead (a signof intelligence), the anti-glare paint under his eyes, his disdainfor conventionalthings, and his gaze fixed sointently on hiscomputer.

This could be you!

This woman from the Nacirematribe is also a typical CD-Rom user.

Notice how she basks in the warmglow of her computer screen on acold winter night, draped in her ornamented leather version of ahospital gown (open back).

When using photographs or files from a CD-ROM disk, be certainthat the image selected is saved with the file rather than only linkedto the file. If you do not do so, your photo/image may not be foundunless the disk is physically in your computer.

Linked with file(no photo displayedbecause photo is notsaved with the file

Photo saved with file

You may create “thumb-mail” displays of images from yourCD-ROM as well as images from your digital camera andyour scanner.

However, if you overload your slide with pictures, the programis likely to have difficulties in presentations--it will be too largeto be transportable on standard disks, and may take too long toload.

Special Considerations

• When adding text to a photo, there are several major concerns. These include:– Order (layering of images and text)– Font color– Text Placement

Ordering or Layering

Tour the Orient! Tour the Orient!

Both images below bear the same message, but the order differs.

Left: the image is in front. Right: the text is in front.

Font Color

Font color is black.

Font color is blue.

Font color is white.

Font color is yellow.

Font color is green.

Font color is red.

Note that some font colors show up better than others, depending upon the background. Generally, the bold text will be easier to see, no matter what the color.

Text Placement and Color

Harris’s Hats and Jewelry.

Harris’s Hats and Jewelry.

Harris’s Hats and Jewelry.

1

2

Harris’s Hats and Jewelry.

3

4

What’s wrong (or right) about each line placed on the image at the left?

#1 is hard to read

#2 is easier to read but bi-color text takes longer.

#3 why bother with an image?

#4 out of the way but also unnoticed.

This could be you!

Palm Springs

Why are you still in the lab? Why don’t you go out and have fun instead of working on the computer?