Making Media List of Categories
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How To Crop Your Image. (Using Photoshop)
More than likely the image you have has a lot of unneeded extra space on it. You can easily crop the things you don't want in the picture out. On the floating sidebar there is a button that looks sort of like a square with over-lapping lines and a line through it. There is a button with a hand on it directly above it, a button with a T on it to it's right, and a button with a spilling paint bucket just below it. This is the crop tool. Slesct the tool and click on the picture and drag with the mouse to draw a square around the part of the picture you want to keep. Once you've drawn the square, move your mouse pointer inside the square, it will turn into a pair of scissors. If you click now anything inside the square will be kept and anything outside the square will disappear. Once you got the part of the picture you want, you'll want to check the file size again to see if you need to make your image smaller. Note: if the picture is more than half the length OR width of the screen (usually 640 by 480) you do need to make your image smaller.
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How To Tell How Big Your Image Is. (Using Photoshop)
Go to file in the menu bar and select open to open up your image. A window will open up with your image inside it. On the title bar for the image, just after the title, will be a ratio. This will tell you what size ratio you are currently viewing your picture. For example if the ratio is 1:2, you are seeing it at only half it's size. You want to resize the window so that you can see how big it really is so press open apple - + until the ratio is 1:1. (if you are on a PC the keys are ctrl - +) Now you can see how big it is but you also want to know how big the file is. Go up to image in the menu bar and select Image Size. Under "Current Size" it will tell you how large the file is, and how big it would print out, as well as the resolution. Click cancel to leave that window. As a rule of thumb it's best to keep image files 200K or smaller with a resolution of 72. when you want to use images on the web.
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Text file format (.txt)
In general, “text” refers to characters of the alphabet, numerals, punctuation, and a few common symbols. Although text is encoded in files by various methods, the most common encoding for western text is ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) format.
For compatibility, a text file, also called an “ASCII text” or a “plain text” file, should contain only ASCII-encoded text. This is in contrast to word processing file formats, which store text but also contain formatting information, special symbols, and other codes that makes it difficult to translate the text to a different program or computer platform.
There are a few differences even among text files created on different systems, such as Mac OS and Windows. Special characters, including invisible line endings and tabs, special typographic symbols such as trademarks (TM), curly quotes, and accented characters can be lost in the translation from one platform to another.
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Saving Files in Rich Text Format (*.rtf)
Saving your files in Rich Text Format (.rtf) allows you to share your text files with others who may have a different word processor or operating system than you do, while at the same time preserving most of the formatting of the original document. Below are the steps for saving a file in .rtf in Microsoft Word, but the steps are virtually the same for other word processor programs.
1. After you have finished work on your paper, while you still have the document open in your word processor, go to File on the menu bar.
2. Select the Save As... option.
3. In the dialog box, by the words "Save in:" choose where you want to save the file. Examples: Desktop, (C:), or 3 1/2 Floppy (A:).
4. Near the bottom of the dialog box you will see a place to enter a name for your file (File name:). Type in the name of your file.
Below the File name: box, there is a place to choose, by clicking on the drop down menu arrow, the type of file you want your file to be saved as (Save as type:). Choose Rich Text Format (*.rtf).
5. Click the Save button. You have just saved your file in .rtf (rich text format).
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