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USING ICT – WHAT SOFTWARE? ●●USING ICT – WHAT SOFTWARE?Capturing Clipart with PSP 4/7It is useful to have a clip art library to hand, because pupils who haven’t got thenecessary design skills can make use of it and extend their ICT skills at thesame time. You could buy a clipart CD-Rom or produce your own, with the onlycost being your time.7.Method 1– Browsing clipart in PSPYou can browse the contents ofPublisher or Word clipart by followingthe steps below. (You will need tohave these programs alreadyinstalled on your PC to do this.)1.2.6.1. Open PSP 4 and then selectfile/open.2. You will need to locate yourOffice files. Theses should be onthe c-drive, in the program files ofa stand-alone machine.If you are working on a networkyou will need to check with yourICT manager/ technician to findout what drive they are installedin and if you can access them.3. With program files selected youneed to locate the MicrosoftOffice program.4. When you have found Office,double click to open it and locatethe clipart folder.5. Open the clipart folder and youshould see the following folders.3. 4.5.8.9.10.11.6. The folder contains a largecollection of clipart. To viewthe clipart in PSP select thebrowse button.7. You will be able to see the imageson the screen. Select maximiseon the top right corner of the boxto enlarge the browse box.8. You can select the images youwant to keep by double clicking.Select a few at a time to speedup the process.9. To save the images, select oneand select file/save as.10. If you want to build up a clipartcollection you should create a newfolder to save the images together.You will also need to call the imagesomething that you will recognise.11. The image should be saved as ajpg as this won’t take up muchroom on the hard disc.14just 4Textiles ■ ISSUE 1 SUMMER 2003 just 4Textiles ■ ISSUE 1 SUMMER 200315