# Presentation: 070778

## Juliann Frantz
 Higher Education Project Assistant
Emergency Management Institute
(301) 447-7689 or juliann.frantz@fema.gov
June 29, 2000

** ****Higher Education Project Assistant**
**Emergency Management Institute**
**(301) 447-7689 or juliann.frantz@fema.gov**
**June 29, 2000**

- Disaster Photos

## Where to find disaster photos on the Internet
Job Aids:
How to save photos from the Internet
How to insert saved photos into documents

- Job Aids:
- How to save photos from the Internet
- How to insert saved photos into documents

## Web Sites

- http://www.fema.gov/library/photo.htm (free)
- http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/sites/photos.html (free)
- http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ (free)
- http://stargate.jpl.nasa.gov:1080/ (free)                               (go half way down the page and click on _USGS Geological Hazards Photos_)
- http://www.airdisaster.com/ (free)                                                               (go to the left side of the page and select _Photo Galleries_)

## Web Sites

- http://www.ucar.edu/imagelibrary/
- http://www.weathercatalog.com                             (for archived photos contact  webmaster@weathercatalog.com)

- You can _purchase_ photos from the following site:

- http://photos.yahoo.com/
- http://www.webshots.com

- You can obtain photos from the following sites by searching for specific types of photos (tornado, hurricane, fire, etc.):

## FEMA Photo CD-Rom

- FEMA has recently contracted to have a photo CD developed.  For questions or to obtain photos contact Lauren Hobart.
- (202) 646-2749
- or
- lauren.hobart@fema.gov

## Selecting Pictures

- Find a picture you like
- To select the picture, click the left mouse button

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## After the picture has been selected you need to save the picture onto your hard drive or a disk

**Selecting Pictures**

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## Right click your mouse on top of the picture

Move to Save Picture As and left click

- Move to _Save Picture As_* *and left click

**Saving Pictures**

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## A new window will appear on your screen that allows you to designate where and how to save your picture

**Saving Pictures**

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## First, go to the Save in drop-down menu at the top left corner and select a drive using the left mouse button
Then go to the File name box at the bottom left corner and type in a name or designation for the picture 

- Then go to the _File name_ box at the bottom left corner and type in a name or designation for the picture

**Saving Pictures**

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## Next, go to the Save as type drop-down menu at the bottom left corner and select a format using the left mouse button 

The most commonly used  formats are bmp, jpeg, and gif 

- The most commonly used  formats are bmp, jpeg, and gif

**Saving Pictures**

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## Graphic Formats

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- GIF (Graphic Interchange Format) - A compression technique used to save simple graphics.
- JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) - A compression technique used to store and interpret complex graphics.
- BMP (Windows Bitmap) - Displays high-resolution, high-quality graphics with little compression.

## Example of Graphic Formats

- BMP is high quality but takes up a lot of space
- GIF is low quality and takes up little space
- JPEG is the preferred choice, compromising some quality but retaining high resolution

**Example:  The FEMA seal in all three formats. **

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## When finished left click on the Save button 

**Saving Pictures**

## Inserting Saved Pictures

- Open the program (Word, PowerPoint, etc...) in which you wish to work
- Open the document into which you want to insert the photo
- Click your left mouse button in the spot where you want the photo to be placed in the document

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## Inserting Saved Pictures

- Go to the tool bar across the top of the window and left click on _Insert _, a drop-down menu will appear.

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## Inserting Saved Pictures

- Left click on the _Picture_ option, then left click on _From File...._
- A new window will appear

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## Inserting Saved Pictures

- Left click the _Look in_ drop-down menu and select the drive where you saved the picture
- Then left click once on the correct file
- After it is highlighted, left click the _Insert_ button

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## Inserting Saved Pictures

- The picture will then be inserted into the document.

## Moving Pictures

- To move the picture, click and hold the left mouse button on top of the picture.  Then drag the picture to a new spot within the document and release.
- ***(If that does not work, right click your mouse, left click format picture, select the position    tab, and click float over text at the bottom.)

## It is important when using pictures from the Internet to properly site both the  photographer and the web address from which the photo was taken

**Remember**

**From: http://www.fema.gov/library/photo.htm**

## Copyrights

- If a photograph is copyrighted you _must_ obtain copyright approval before using the picture
- If you are purchasing pictures from the Internet check with the vendor to make sure copyright approval is included with the purchase