Today we had demonstrations on Google Docs and graphics.
This is one of those tools you wish you had known about years ago! I have had a side job as a thesis editor for MS and PhD students. Rather than sending enormous files over the email (and often breaking up the files into chapters) Google Docs is the way to go!
I also have some of my staff members that work from home or work only a certain % time in the office particularly during the summer. I also have an advisor on maternity leave through the end of July. Rather than sending documents via email to ten different advisors, setting up these files on Google Docs would appear the way to go. I plan to present this as an option to my staff on Thursday's staff meeting. I love the option of going back to previous versions of a document! This would save the necessity of cut and paste, format updates etc.
Alternate sites: http://www.hypertextopia.com, http://www.zoho.com, some are just word processing, some just have excel functionality, some like google.docs have both functionality and more.
On his presentation covering graphics Ryan first covered some simple definitions. Bitmap graphics use pixels. A vector image is mathmatical/scalable. They are also smaller. Vector images are not good for photos. You would use vector graphics when using logos, on-line images.
300 dpi is where you want to be for a good quality print.
More than 72 dpi on the web is overkill.
picresize.com has some fun features like the polariod (see image top right).
According to Ryan Photoshop is the best graphic tool! I am interested in taking Photoshop I and II for my graduate program.
~S.
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