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A drawing/painting program called "Paint" comes
with Windows. There is also a Painting Program in AppleWorks.
Below is a small sample done with Paint.
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Among other things, a painting program
allows you to draw, with various size "brushes", in various
colors, to fill in spaces with color, to erase, to make shapes, to
crop your drawing, and to save your creation in various formats. The
best way to familiarize yourself with Paint is to play with it.
When you are ready to save your drawing, the procedure is the same as
in saving any document. Choose "File" in the menu bar,
then "Save as" and in the box that appears, you give your
drawing a name, choose a location where it will be saved and the
format you want to save your drawing in. If it is a simple
drawing as shown here, you can save it in "gif" format,
otherwise choose "jpeg" format.
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Microsoft Word has some drawing and
art features that can be used to make clipart. In the Menu bar, click on
"Insert", then choose Picture. Now choose one of the drawing/art
features: AutoShapes, WordArt, and New Drawing
are all ways to make your own clipart.
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AutoShapes and New Drawing are very
similar. Both work with the AutoShape toolbar. (see below)
AutoShapes allows you to drag your shape to the size you want, and
then puts a "drawing box" around it. "New
drawing" puts a "drawing box" into your document first,
and then you add autoshapes into it. You can add more than one
shape in the box. The picture below shows the drawing box when
you click on "New Drawing".
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An area for your drawing appears in your
Word document as shown here. You can enlarge this drawing area,
or shrink it, by dragging the black corner boxes. I chose
"Stars and Banners" from the AutoShapes toolbar, and from
Stars and Banners, I clicked on the 24 point star. The star on
the left appeared. If you drag the little yellow box inward, you
can alter the shape of the star, and the star on the right is one
variation. You can change it's size by dragging the white boxes
surrounding the star. Other AutoShapes include Arrows, Lines,
Flow Charts, Speech Balloons, and Basic Shapes.
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Another feature of Microsoft Word is
"WordArt".
If you want to include text in your
clip art, WordArt lets you make some very fancy text! You choose
a style from the gallery shown, click ok, then type your text in the
box that appears. Clicking Ok again will insert your fancy text
into your document. Once you've inserted it into your document,
you'll be able to size it, rotate it, and alter it if the yellow box
is available. The
"Belmont
School-wide Code of Conduct" is an example of clipart I made
for the Belmont web page using WordArt.
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