Summer Institute of English
Petrozavodsk, Russia
June 11-18, 2005

 Save Web pages for offline use. These steps are for Internet Explorer, which does a good job downloading all the text and images from Web pages. Note: To be certain that offline pages function and looks as expected, use the same browser for downloading them and viewing them. Follow these steps:

1. Locate the Web page you want to use offline.
2. Choose "Save as. . ." from the "File" menu.
3. Choose Format: "Web Archive" (for Mac) or "Single File" (for Windows)
4. Click "Save". The file and all its images will download to your computer.
5. To use the file offline: Choose "Open File" from the "File" menu in Internet Explorer.
6. Locate the icon for the Web page you saved and open it.
7. Note: Not all Web pages are fully functional when used offline. Also, you should get permission from the author to use Web pages offline.
8. You can buy software made especially for downloading Web pages for use offline. See WebWhacker.
9. Try the "Save as" technique on this page and see if it works!

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Copy and paste a graphic image you create to a word processing document. After doing so, you can write about it. Once you are in your graphics program (e.g. Tux Paint), with your image on the screen, follows these steps:

1. On a Mac: Press Apple key + Control (CTRL) key + Shift key + 4 all at the same time. Your cursor will turn into a plus sign (+). Drag around your image and release the mouse.
2. On Windows: Use Alt + Printscreen.
3. Open your word processing document. Put your cursor at the top of the document. Type your name, date, assuagement #, etc.
4. Put your cursor where you want the image to appear.
5. Choose "Paste" from the "Edit" menu.
6. Your image will appear. You may size it by dragging any of the images corners. (Hold "Shift" key down while dragging if you want to preserve the proportion while enlarging or diminishing the size).
7. You can try this out with the seahorse image above. Good luck!

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Downloading an image from the Internet. When you find an image on the Internet that you want to download to your computer, follow these steps.

1. Click on the image, holding the mouse button down (or right-click on the image if you have a two-button mouse).
2. Choose "Download image to disk" (on a Mac) or "Save image as. . ." (on Windows) and save the image to the location on your computer that you desire.
3. To view the image, you can double click it. If that doesn't work, you can drag the image into a window of your Web browser, such as Internet Explorer.

If you want to download a video or audio file to your computer, the process is the same. However, you click on the link to the audio or video file and choose "Download link to disk."
NOTE: Audio files that play with Real Player cannot be downloaded for offline use using this process.

Here is an image. Practice downloading it to your computer.

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Giving an image special effects. Most image processing software let's you create a number of special effects, in addition to completing more common tasks such as cropping and resizing an image. To blur this image in Adobe Photoshop Elements, follow these steps:

1. Choose "Open" from the "File" menu and then locate the file on your computer you want to blur.
2. Choose "Blur" --> "Gaussian Blur" from the "Filter" menu.
3. Move the slider until the desired blurring is reached.
4. Choose "Save as. . ." from the "File" menu. Rename your file. Choose "Save." This will leave your original file unchanged.

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Created by krauss@lclark.edu
Updated 5/2/05