Kinds of Materials
PICTURES
-Electronic or digital
pictures or
photographs you have
saved in any local
storage device.
TYPES OF PICTURES
a. JPG-(Joint Photographic Expert Group)
• Pronounce as “jay-peg” short for .jpeg also known as bitmap
• More compatible and portable through the internet
• Can support 16.7 million colors that suitable for use when
working with full color photographic images.
• Does not support transparency and difficult to integrate blending
with other materials or elements.
• Does not work well on lettering, line, drawings or simple graphics
• Best quality image to integrate with your
document
• Small in file size
b. GIF- Graphics Interchange Format
• Capable of displaying transparencies
• Good for blending materials or elements in documents
• Displaying simple animation, but not useful in printed
document only in sending document electronically through
email or post in website.
• Support 256 colors
• Much better for logos, drawings, small text, black and white
images and other art decors.
• Low resolution files
c. PNG- Portable Network Graphics
• Pronounced as “ping” and built around the capabilities of
GIF.
• Development was basically for the purpose of transporting
images on the internet as faster rates.
• Good with transparencies but unlike GIF does not support
animation
• Display 16 million colors
• Allows the control of the transparency level or opacity of
images
CLIPART
• This is generally a .GIF type; line art
drawing or images used as generic
representation for ideas and objects
that you might want to integrate in your
document.
SHAPES
These are printable objects or materials that
you can integrate in your document to enhance
its appearance or to allow you to have some
tools to use for composing and representing
ideas or messages.
SMART ART
• Predefine sets of different shapes
grouped together to form ideas that
are organizational or structural in
nature.
CHART
• Allow you to represent data
characteristics and trends. Useful when
preparing reports to correlate and
present data in graphical manner.
SCREENSHOT
is an realistic image of what is visible on a monitor, or
in your computer. MS Word also provides snipping tool
for your screenshots so you can select and display only
the part that you exactly like to capture on your screen.
TEXT WRAP
• adjust how the image behaves around other
objects/text
Image Placement
1. In line with text- default settings for images that are
inserted or integrated in your document. It treats your image
like a text in front with the bottom side totally aligned with
the text line. This setting is usually used when you need to
place the image at the beginning of a paragraph. When
placed between text in paragraph or sentence, it distorts the
overall appearance and arrangement of the texts in the
paragraph because it will take up the space it needs in
vertical pushing whole line of texts upward.
Image Placement
2. Square- This settings allows the image you
inserted to be placed anywhere within the
paragraph with the text going around the
image in square pattern like a frame.
Image Placement
3. Tight- this almost the same as Square setting, but
here the text “hugs” or conforms to the general
shape of the image. This allows you to get a more
creative effect on your document. Can mostly
achieved if you are using an image that support
transparency line .GIF/.PNG
4. Through- This settings allows the text on
your document to flow even tighter, taking the
contours and shape of the image. Again, this
can be best used with a .GIF or .PNG type of
image.
5. Top and Bottom- This setting pushes the text
away vertically to the top and/ or the bottom of
the images so that the image occupies a whole
text line on it’s own.
6. Behind Text-This allow your image to be
dragged and placed anywhere on you
document but with all the texts floating in front
of it. It effectively makes your image look like a
background.
7. In front of text- This settings allows your
image to be placed right on top of the text as if
your image was dropped right on it. That
means whatever part of the text you placed the
image on, it will be covered by the image .
