OCTET: Image Editing

There are two major steps to getting images in a format that can be used in PowerPoint or on the web: Capturing the image and Editing the Image.

Step 1: Capturing Images. This is the process whereby you save a digitized image on to your hard drive. This can be done in a variety of ways.

1. Grabbing a picture from the web
2. Scanning
3. Importing an image from a digital camera.
4. Copying an image from a disk that someone has given you or from an attachment to an e-mail. The disk or e-mail attachment can contain images from the web, scanned images, pictures taken from a camera ... (get the idea?).

Step 2: Editing images. Once the digitized image is on your hard drive there some common adjustments that usually need to be made. These adjustments include:

1. Cropping - this will remove unwanted areas around the subject.
2. Resizing - this will reduce the amount of space the images takes up on the screen and on your hard drive.
3. Saving in a more compressed or amenable format is need if you wish to display the images on the web. Web browsers only support .jpg and .gif image file types.

Last updated
June 10, 2004