EXPLORING
GRAPHICS FOR THE WEB
Dr. Richard L.
Bowman
Academic Computing, Bridgewater College, Bridgewater, VA,
USA 22812
1. Find the WordArt
tool. Microsoft Word has a useful little
"program" called WordArt that creates special
effects with text. To get to WordArt, open up Word
and select the Drawing button on the toolbar. On the
Drawing toolbar select the WordArt button. To
access WordArt from the Insert menu, select Picture and
then WordArt.
2. Create the text effect. Select one
of the pictured text effects and see what your creative
impulses produce. When the image looks as you would like
it to appear, close the picture editing session from the
"Edit Picture" toolbar. This toolbar may not be
visible. To make it appear, from the View menu select
Toolbars and then the "Edit Picture" toolbar.
Once selected, this toolbar will show up if and only if
you are editing or creating a picture.
3. Save the text image. The graphic
created by WordArt is automatically embedded in
the Word document where it was created and will be
printed where placed. To use WordArt in a web
page or other graphical creation, click on the image in
the Word document to make sure it is selected
and then copy it. Open a graphical program such as IrfanView
and paste this image from the Windows clipboard
into the program. Then resize and save it as appropriate.
Here is a sample creation from WordArt.
Hint: Also try experimenting
with the other drawing tools or effects that are
available from the Drawing toolbar in Word.
Note: Microsoft Office often
ships with the program PhotoEditor. However,
since the freely available IrfanView has much
higher quality resizing routines and other capabilities
not present with PhotoEditor, I urge persons to
follow through in obtaining and using IrfanView,
as describe next.
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