Students can use Photoshop in the Technical Resource Center located in the Student Computing Center on the ground floor of Wachman Hall. Faculty can use Photoshop in the Instructional Support Centers on the ground floor of Speakman Hall or the 6th floor of Gladfelter Hall. You can also search the web for public domain or shareware programs that will allow you to edit and convert graphics into JPEG or GIF format. In addition to the format of the graphic file, you should consider the size of the file. Try to use files that are no larger than 30 Kilobytes.
Larger files can be slow to fully appear on the screen.
Getting the graphics There are a number of ways that you can acquire graphics. If you are artistic, you can use a drawing program to create them. If possible, make sure to save the file in GIF or JPEG format. If drawing is not in your skill set, but you have images, such as photographs, you can use a scanner to copy the images into the computer and save them as GIF or JPEG files. A computer screen cannot produce images higher than 72dpi, so a higher resolution will not improve visual quality, but only increase the size of the file.