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Technology Tip Number 35 How to catch the BIG images Do you have trouble finding pictures on the internet? When you do finally find a picture from the internet does it look all grainy when you enlarge it to fit in your PowerPoint show? Today's technology tip offers you some help with finding images online and also some advice on how to find the largest possible images so your next computer project isn't full of grainy looking pictures. First, image search engines. Just as we can search the internet for words you can also search for images. There are many good search engines that you could use. For starters most of your major search engines have an image search engine too: For example: Google Images, AltaVista Images, and Yahoo Images. But for today's technology tip I'd like to show you a site that is dedicated only to images. I'd also like to show you how to find only large images every time you search. 1) For this example you can use picsearch.com 2) Click on "Advance Search"
3) Select “Very Large (800 pixels or more)” from the drop down menu and then click “Search” What kind of a difference does this make? Well if you’re making a PowerPoint presentation and you don’t use large pictures you will have to stretch the small ones you find. The result is pixilated or grainy pictures. You know the look:
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this: To avoid this problem always use the “advance image search” option and select “Large” from the menu! PRACTICE ACTIVITY: Try searching for a large image on picsearch or any of the other search engines mentioned above. Make sure you can find the "advanced search" option and find a nice large picture that you could use in a presentation. TO KEEP ON LEARNING: If you'd like to learn more about computer images try searching for: How jpg images work Have a nice day!
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