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I’ve written a series on using images here. The most important aspects bloggers have to appreciate is copyright and image use – which I have covered in this post. Even then it was hard because copyright is a complex topic and I’ve tried to make the explanation simple.

The other aspect people get caught out with is forgetting to resize their own images before uploading. I’ve seen users use up all their space by uploading digital photos without resizing.

Yes I’m well known for my screenshots (that can I say not all readers of blogs like ). I use SnagIT daily for blogging and my own teaching so was worth every cent I paid.

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However, I find that on my blog, I take a TON of time finding just the right illustrations for what are sometimes complex concepts. I, like Dean, would challenge folks to find more than one post without an image.

Here’s the real kicker:

My principal informed me last week that she refers to my posts to not only me -but to others- by the first image on the page. She won’t remember a title, but she can say: “yeah… Nash had a quote on that in the ‘tree trunk’ post, or was it the ‘traffic light’ post.”

To me, that was huge validation of my careful work of illustrating my thoughts and ideas with images. That, or she is just a really visual person.

Unless they are my own photos from Flickr (and they often are), they are always MLA cited from the “Son of Citation Machine” -many thanks to David Warlick. I saw the way he very boldly credits photos- and now I teach everyone who comes to me for help to cite in much the same way.

Finally, I absolutely love giving amateur photographers a different, and wider, audience. I think the idea of powerfully remixing shared content is one of the most exciting things around today for creative-minded people. Also- always say thanks in the comment box of the artist’s Flickr page. Even though CC is the rule, I still say thanks and “I hope you approve of this use.”

…just me.

Sean

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You don’t need any third party software to take screenshots in Windows. It’s extremely simple, but perhaps not well known.

To take a screenshot, simply press the Print Screen button (above the Insert button on most keyboards). That will take a screenshot of the current screen and store it in the clipboard.

You can then load any image editing program – even Paint – and Paste the image into an image file.

It would help to have a better third party image-editing program available to touch up and fix the screenshot. In that case, GIMP is a great option. It’s free and it’s open source. In GIMP you can also go to File -> Acquire -> Paste as New to create a new document sized to the screenshot that you just took.

On the topic of images and copyrights, another option for legally free pictures is the Open Clip Art library. It’s a pretty big collection of free-to-use clip art. Although I don’t find it particularly easy to navigate, there’s some good stuff in there if you dig long enough.

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I need to try and use picture in my posts a little more often, I know, and I’m trying to work on that.

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