| Finding Publication Quality Clip Art Locating good clip art to use in print publications is much more challenging than finding good clip art to use on the web. Graphics designed for paper generally need to be 300 dots per inch or higher in resolution (web graphics are usually 72 dots per inch). Suitable print graphics usually come with one of the following extensions: .tiff (usually from scans), .psd (Photoshop documents). .esp (postscript graphics, also called vector graphics) or .wmf (windows media file). Other web graphics formats like .gif or .jpeg may be ok if used at 100% resolution, but they may look ragged when printed and can almost never be enlarged effectively. This website: http://www.dansdata.com/graphics.htm has a good if endless page of information about various graphic formats and here is tutorial from Wise-Women.org http://www.wise-women.org/resources/abc/graphics/ Most organizations end up purchasing clip art cds for their print pubications. Indeed many of the free sites listed below offer free web graphics but want you to purchase CDs containing high quality versions of their images suitable for print. You can also use the clip art that comes with Microsoft Office for class projects (but see the FAQ page for tips on moving graphics from Word to Indesign) as well as the clip art on the CD that came with our book. To add a graphic to an indesign project, put the graphic file in a folder with your indesign file and then use the "Place" command under the File Menu to move the graphic into your project. Regardless of where you find your images, be sure to credit any graphics that you use from other sources such as you would cite any quotations you would use in a paper. You can credit with source url under the picture or at the end of the publication.
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