You can obtain graphics from internet sources , digitize them with a scanner , or take photos with a digital camera. Once you have digitized the images, you will probably need to resize them, crop them, and save them to a .gif or .jpeg format, using a program such as Paintshop Pro, Image Composer, or Adobe Photoshop. PaintShop Pro is installed in the Barnard computer labs, and a shareware product that is available over the internet at Jasc Paint Shop Pro .
Graphics take up a great deal of disk space and network bandwidth.
To preserve both of these resources, please use sound and graphics files sparingly, and make them as small as possible. To place graphics in your Unix account, you will need to use a File Transfer Protocol, such as WS-FTP . To code your home page to look at the graphic file in your directory. Adding Other Multimedia Files To Your Home Page Some Web browsers, such as Netscape, support the viewing of graphics or the playing of sounds. If you wish, you may place links to graphic or sound files in your HTML documents.