Kinds of Materials

Empowerment Technologies
Lesson: 3 Advanced World Skills
1. Pictures
• Electronic or digital pictures or photographs you have saved in any local
storage device. Commonly used types of pictures:
JPG -is a file extension for a lossy graphics file. The JPEG file extension
is used interchangeably with JPG. JPEG stands for Joint Photographic Experts
Group who created the standard.
GIF - Pronounced jiff or giff (hard g) stands for graphics interchange
format, a bit-mapped graphics file format used by the World Wide Web,
CompuServe and many BBSs. GIF supports color and various resolutions.
PNG - Portable Network Graphics (PNG, officially pronounced /pɪŋ/
PING, also commonly pronounced /ˌpiːɛnˈdʒiː/ PEE-en-JEE) is a raster-
graphics file-format that supports lossless data compression.
2. Clip Art
• Clip art is a collection of pictures or images that can be imported into
a document or another program. The images may be either raster
graphics or vector graphics. ... You may also be able to export the
image to the Desktop or another folder on your hard disk.
3. Shapes
• These are printable objects or materials that you can integrate in your
documents to enhance its appearance or to allow you to have some
tools to use for composing and representing ideas or messages. If
you are designing the layout for a poster or other graphic materials
for advertising.
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4. Smart Art
• Predefined sets of different shapes grouped together to form ideas
that are organization or structural in nature.
5. Chart
• For presentation data characteristics and trends. Use for preparing
reports that correlate and present data in a graphical manner.
6. Screenshot
• A screenshot is an image file which captures the contents of a digital
display screen. It is a snapshot of what the user sees on the screen at
any given time. A screenshot is also known as a screen capture or
screen dump.
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