An example

If you take a photograph with the department's digital camera, the image you get is a 2816*2112 pixel jpeg and the file size is usually 600-800 kilobytes.

You can download the images from the camera on any computer, using the usb cable.

What do I do with it? Option 1

  • Open it in Microsoft Office Picture Manager  (or PhotoEditor in older versions of Office)
  • Print it out to the Deskjet printer
  • Laminate it (The laminator is in Barrie's office. Laminating pouches are available from the Stores)
  • Stick it on your poster

What do I do with it? Option 2

  • Open it in Microsoft Office Picture Manager  (or PhotoEditor in older versions of Office)
  • Crop and resize the image to the size it will appear in the final product
  • Import the image into Word
  • Print your report from Word

What do I do with it? - Option 3

  • Open it in Microsoft Office Picture Manager  (or PhotoEditor in older versions of Office)
  • Crop and resize the image to the size it will appear in the final product
  • Import the image into PowerPoint
  • Use PowerPoint for your presentation or
  • Take the PowerPoint file to P&IS for printing as a poster (this costs money)
Don't copy and paste images into Word and PowerPoint
Always use
  Insert
    Picture
      From file
don't drag Don't just insert an image into your document and resize by dragging its sizing handles

If you make it look smaller, it's still same filesize, so your Word or Powerpoint file will still get big and unmanagable.

and if you make it bigger . . .

don't drag

it will get blocky and look terrible.

Also, for images in web pages . . .

The img tag includes width and height fields, for example

<img src="dept1.gif" alt="department with daffodils" width="274" height="230" />

The width and height fields should be the size the image actually is. They are there to allow the browser to leave the right amount of space for the image when presenting the page.

Do not use the width and height fields to scale the image.
They are not designed for that - the browser will have a go at scaling and probably won't make a very good job of it.
Make web images as small as you can so that they download in a reasonable time. People quickly get impatient and go to another page.

Further information on web graphics

SENDA
Special Educational Needs and Disability Act 2001

From September 2002, legislation came into force which includes information accessible through the web. The requirement is that you must:

  • Not treat disabled students or pupils less favourably without justification; and
  • Make reasonable adjustments so that students or pupils are not at a substantial disadvantage compared to those who are not disabled

See http://web-support.csx.cam.ac.uk/access/accessslides/ for more details, but where a web page includes images, it should still make sense to someone who is colour blind, or to someone using a screen reader. So, for example, the guidelines recommend always using the alt attribute to describe each image

<img src="dept1.gif" alt="department with daffodils" width="274" height="230" />

A final note:
The PowerPoint version of this presentation was only 532 KB and fitted on a floppy disk