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Graphics: When and How to Use Them

Graphics: When and How to Use Them TC 151: Visual Communication Important Points: Graphics can more easily convey COMPLEX information Therefore graphics can make information easier to understand. Graphics can also make information easy to find Use Graphics only for a Specific Purpose

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Graphics: When and How to Use Them

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  1. Graphics: When and How to Use Them TC 151: Visual Communication

  2. Important Points: • Graphics can more easily convey COMPLEX information • Therefore graphics can make information easier to understand. • Graphics can also make information easy to find

  3. Use Graphics only for a Specific Purpose • To show how to perform an action. • To show how something looks or what should result. • To make complicated information easy to understand.

  4. To show how to perform an action.

  5. To show how something looks or what should result. • Once the Internet Explorer icon is selected, you should see the New Mexico Tech home page. • You should see the following screen:

  6. To make complicated information easy to understand.

  7. Text creates an “Anchor” for Graphics

  8. Graphical Elements • Graphical elements enhance and support text. • Graphical elements can break up information, enhance information, focus attention, and make the page aesthetically pleasing. • Graphical elements help create consistency throughout.

  9. How to Use Graphics and Graphical Elements • Divide the document into grids and align elements within those grids • Utilize space around elements to frame the elements • Try to fill up space with combinations of text and graphics

  10. How to Use Graphics and Graphical Elements • Use graphical elements for emphasis • Use graphics to explain something

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