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Clipart

Clipart consists of graphics that can be used to add piazza to any multimedia project including papers, presentations, and web pages.Some programs like Microsoft Word and Hyperstudio have built-in clipart, but sometimes you cannot find what you are looking for or the program that you are using does not have built-in clipart. If this is the case, you will need to find your own clipart and one of the best places to look is on the web.

Where to find

A list of suggested websites that you can use to locate royalty-free clipart follows, or you can use a search engine to locate additional clipart websites.

As you are searching for clipart and images, please be sure to look for images that are not copyrighted! If you find a copyrighted image that you would really like to use, ask the owner for permission to use it for educational purposes.

How to save

When you find a clipart image that you like, you will need to save it on disk or in the ETC folder. It is a good idea to keep all clipart that you save in one location to make it easy to find when you want to use it later on. To save clipart from the web:

  1. Click and hold the mouse button on the image that you would like until a pop-up menu appears.

  2. Choose Download Image to Disk (Internet Explorer) or Save this image as... (Netscape).

  3. Use the Save Image dialog box, to navigate to the location that you would like to save your image.

  4. If you like, you can rename the image by typing a new name in the Name: (Explorer) or Save image as: (Netscape) field. Make sure that you do notdelete the extension that follows the name (either .gif or .jpg) when you change it because that is how the computer identifies the file as an image.

    NOTE: It is recommended that you do this only if it has a name that makes it difficult to identify what the image is.

  5. Click the Save button.

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