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What You Need To Know Before Creating Clip Art
What you need to know to create clip art of simple bullets, lines, flowers, trees, logos, silhouettes, and other clip art creations.
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What you need to know before you can create simple clip art using your own graphics program, such as Paint, Paint Shop Pro, etc.

1. You will need a program that allows you to draw circles, squares, lines, and rectangles.

2. You will also need to be able to fill (or paint) in colors.

3. Your created clip art will be on a white background. If you want to use your clip art on a colored Web page background you will need a program that will allow you to turn the clip art background transparent.

Become familiar with your program.

1. You will need to know how to choose a color, how to fill a circle or square with color.

2. You need to know how to choose a tool to draw with, such as the circle, rectangle, line, or a free hand drawing tool (pencil or pen), etc. Many programs have tools that are easily identified.

Tools

  • An image of paint bucket with a drop of paint spilling out is the fill tool.
  • A straight diagonal line represents the line drawing tool
  • A pencil normally represents a free hand drawing tool
  • A brush image sometimes represents a thicker free hand drawing tool
  • An airbrush is sometimes represented by a can with spray coming out of the top
  • A square image on a button could represent the ability to draw a square or a rectangle, or may, if you click on that button, give you the option of choosing to draw a circle, oval, square, or rectangle
  • Small squares of colors or a line of colors represents the various colors you may choose to paint or fill with.
  • Simple and Easy Clip Art Tutorials
    Create your own bullets, dividers, simple flowers, smilies, houses and trees, palm trees and pine trees, city scenes, simple logos, invitations, and more.


    Clip Art Tutorials for Various Programs

    Paint Shop Pro Tutorials

    PhotoImpact Tutorials

    Photoshop Tutorials


    Help Links

    Graphics Software
    Help with choosing the best graphics software for your graphics skills, needs, and computer system.

    Adding and Uploading Images
    How to add your image (clip art) to your Web page and move the image and your Web page from your hard drive to your Web server.

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