So, you've plunged into desktop publishing on your computer. Now you make all your stationary, greeting cards, even print one of those newsletters to
send to all the family and friends you never visit. You've got 5 zillion pieces of clip art and 2 bizillion fonts, but you just can't find what you're looking for.And....... this card has to be special, so plain clip
art just won't do. You need a photograph! Perfect! Now, where to get the right photograph onto your card. There are several ways to accomplish this task.
1. Spend hours digging out the camera and film
only to find out you need new batteries. Run to the store, then go take the pictures, have them developed and pay extra for them to come on a floppy disk.
BUT, your project needs done in a couple of hours.
2. Get out the photo albums, rummage through all the
pictures until you find the right one, place it on your color scanner and then put it right into the project.
The problem is, you don't have a scanner and don't have time to run down to the local photo lab and pay to
have them do it.
3. Run to the office and fax the picture to yourself. The picture is in black and white and looks terrible.
The answer is a nice collection of pictures from the Print Shop Photo Folios.
There are Vintage Black and White shots, if B&W is what you want, and color shots with categories like Workplace & Business, Life & Leisure, Holidays and Celebrations and if you want to get fancy, another
collection is Backgrounds & Textures.
Each collection comes on it's own CD-ROM and works on any program that take .BMP or .PICT format graphic files. So while they were made for Print Shop, they'll work nearly
anywhere you need the perfect picture fast. Each picture is 72 d.p.i. which is plenty of resolution so they print nice without taking up so much memory. Still, some files are over 1 meg.
While there are many other
photograph CD-ROM's available, these pictures are like a nice clipart collection-- just enough of the right pictures for most common projects. And, I really like the fact that these are plain old 256 color .BMP files
rather than some proprietary format.
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