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Picture Manager: Basics

Microsoft Office has a built-in program called Picture Manager which helps with managing, editing and sharing pictures.  You can edit more than one picture at a time, and use its automatic editing features.

Poster Production: Guide for Students

The Student Computing Services (SCS) Lab in Cook 35 houses a large-format color printer that students may use to print posters in fulfillment of class assignments or for research expositions and conference poster sessions. This guide describes the procedure by which students may use this service and offers advice toward making their posters as engaging and effective as possible.

Smart Classroom: Guide

This document is a usage guide to help people use the equipment and services available in a Smart Classroom on campus.

Navigating the Library Web site

This document will help you navigate Cook Library's Web site.
For more information about library resources go to http://cooklibrary.towson.edu.

Preparing Web Images with WebResizer.com
There are dozens of applications well suited to the image processing tasks associated with Web publishing. But when it comes to preparing images for use on the Web, most of us need to do three, and only three, things: Resize, Crop and Optimize. This document describes WebResizer.com, a web-based application particularly well suited to these tasks.