Graphic

This is the link to my graphic:
Graphic

Hey, the orders said graphic, and I got excited. Then I said, what do you mean, make a picture??? Oh well.

I cannot post to the FSU site tonight. We're having really strong winds and lots of little electrical outages, and FSU is having technical troubles.

Anyway, I'm pretty low tech on graphics, and I don't have an artist's eye (or any other part of him-who do I look like, Jeff Dahmer??? I downloaded some free clip art from the Web, then used the program Paint Shop Pro 7 to clean them up so that I could use them. I find Paint Shop Pro 7 the best thing I have to resize and retool clip art and pictures.

Once I finished that, I took everything into Microsoft Publisher. The Publisher I use came with the student Office 2007 version, an upgrade of what I was using. You lay out the graphic like it was a page, and then you can save the thing in a variety of formats. I like saving things off in JPEG format so I can use it in a lot of places. It's probably not the best way to make a graphic, but I think the WordArt tools on Publisher are by far the easiest to work with. I don't have any training in how to make things look cool, so I just slap things on until it looks ful enough for me, and then I post it.

After reading the questions, I have to admit: I have no idea what the six or seven things are in a graphics program. In truth, I have never touched a graphics program. I fiddle with Paint Shop Pro 7 a lot because I would like to make animations, but I cannot get anything even remotely satisfactory. In the work I want to do, this will probably be pretty low on the list, though I would still like to make an animation.