Graphics Mentoring Project

9/9/99

Session Three - Fri 9/24 in Writing Center, AA334, 1-3

• Quick review (get this from GMU site)

• Some more neat features

  • Screen shots
  • How to make good type
  • Magic wand
  • Smart Edge
    • Multiple selections
    • Saving selections to Alpha channel or disk
  • Pattern fills
  • Picture tube
  • Convert to seamless pattern
  • Web sites with PSP lessons

• links - whole image, image maps, sliced images

• borders - linked and unlinked

• common problems

• ideas for easy things to make
  

  1. Use some NVCC graphics on your site

     • Make a montage/collage, or add some text, or strip away some background

  2. Make a banner or logo for your organization or a site

     • [here's one] [another] [another]
  3. Make a menu bar for your organization or site
  4. Put some of your own photos up somewhere
     • Link them from thumbnails
  5. Make a 120x90 animated ad to appear on the campus web site
  6. Make some link buttons for your site
     • Make them change when a mouse goes over them

Session Four - Fri 10/22  in Writing Center, AA334, 1-3

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