Using Graphics in Your Newsletter |
| Types of images you may want to use in a newsletter: |
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Clip Art - usually .gif format-simple drawings or artwork
Photos - .jpg,
.tiff,.bmp, (Remember you must have written permission to take and publish
student photos.)
Scanned images – photos or student art work
Logos – for headlines, subtitles or footnotes – descriptive,
abstract or typographical – create your own or ask an artistic staff
 members.
Graphic accents
– such as ruled lines, over sized clip art letters, charts, tables,
graphs, page boarders or backgrounds.
Student artwork |
| When and how to use images: |
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Use images to break up text and make the newsletter easier to read.
Use images
to illustrate the meaning of a headline.
Use images to draw people in and want to learn more about a story.
Do not use
to many images. “Less is More!”
Place images so that the face into the middle of the newspaper to draw the
eye into the text, not off the paper.
Use images with a high enough resolution so that they will print with out
jagged pixilated edges.
Make sure that you follow copyright laws. |
Where to get copyright free images: |
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Microsoft Office Clip Art and Media http://office.microsoft.com/clipart/default.aspx?lc=en-us
Take your
own photos or have students or staff take photos.
Scan students’
art work
Other online
sources
FreeFoto.com
- http://www.freefoto.com/index.jsp
Free Images.co.uk
- http://www.freeimages.co.uk/
MorgueFile
- http://www.morguefile.com/
Imageafter
- http://www.imageafter.com/
OpenPhoto.Net
- http://www.openphoto.net/
Pics4learning.com
- http://www.pics4learning.com/
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