• Have students save their drawings with a recognizable name (for example tracks.tim & deer.anne) plus their own name.
• Pull their saved drawings into PhotoDeluxe. This will allow you to crop, choose a size (I suggest 3 or 4 inches) and reduce the resolution
• Save the drawings as gifs. You will be renaming. These can be inserted into your web pages --No scanner needed & you get great colored results Kids can also use these in their word processing / newspaper

Here is a simple page I made. It has drawings from KidPix --Anne and Justin's pheasants, for example, were drawn in KidPix-- as well as good old fashioned paper and crayon drawings --Christopher & T.J. made their pictures with crayons-- that I scanned.
http://www.onekama..k12.mi.us/onek2k/g5/letters.htm

Notice that I used the "make transparent tool" on Anne's pheasant and T.J.'s deer. This Image tool bar is accessible when you click on the image. Run your mouse over the tools and the names will pop up. On a Mac the tool is on the far right. This makes all the contiguous white background transparent so that you can see the background. This only works with gif's, not jpg's. If you try it with a jpg, FP will turn it into a gif for you. You will lose quality turning a jpg into a gif. (a gif is limited to 256 colors. A jpg uses thousands.)

Inserting Photographs into FrontPage

Inserting photographs you have taken with a digital camera, scanned, or brought in from another source, is "reasonably easy" in FrontPage. Just know where you saved the image after you brought it into your PC. Now that I'm a "Windows veteran", I usually put mine in folders which I name by date and drop that folder into a folder called "Photos" that I put on my c-drive. Later, I may rename the folder a more specific name. Depends.

Some cameras use a floppy disk to hold the images. The Olympus uses a "smart card". If your camera uses a floppy, I would STRONGLY suggest you use a NEW, CLEAN floppy disk to protect your own computer as well as the camera. You don't have to format the photographs (from any source) before you pull them into your web, you can do it in FrontPage. Just put the floppy in the A Drive, and save the whole thing to a place you can find again. (Sorry I keep repeating, but I spent my first Windows months wandering around wondering where things were.)

When you are ready to "insert", a photo menu shows up. Slowly slide your cursor over this menu to see what each icon does. One will crop. One will resize, rotate, flip, bevel, etc. Best of all, one will "resample" or reduce the resolution of the photo so that the page will load more quickly. With earlier versions of FrontPage this formatting had to be done before bringing the picture in. (That's how I still do it--the hard way--using PhotoShop. I go the long way because I feel I have better control in PhotoShop.) FrontPage will prompt you to name the image. If you give it a brief name related to the page you put it on, you will be happier when it comes time to FTP or delete them. You can do the same with Olympus or scanned images. (Example: if I make a page about owls, all images for that page, plus the page itself, starts with "owl": owl.fly16.jpg , owl.kids17.jpg , owl.kdg.htm , etc) Of course, EVERY item must have its own unique name.

Adding Clip Art

Use one of the search engines to locate Clip art. There are many good (and free) sites. I suggest using a minimum number--just enough to make your page attractive without being gaudy.

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