I’m writing a document and want to insert a picture of a beet.
Open Clipart has a good selection of images, just go to https://openclipart.org and enter your picture name , e.g. picnic, in the search box. The results will appear and you can often download your chosen image in different formats.
- svg images have the advantage of
being scalable without loss of
detail/quality. With complex
drawings, the size can get large but
typically a simple sketch will be
quite a small file size. If you want
to make changes to the image then you
might need a program like Inkscape.
You will also need a little skill to edit
them - png images are pixel based so if you
keep scaling up you will lose
quality. They are a lossless format
so can have quite large file sizes
but can be quite small if there are a
limited number of colours, greyscale,
or even black and white. They are a
good format for drawings because
lines stay crisp (compare jpg). They
can include transparency. - jpg are pixel based but they are also
a lossy format that don’t lend
themselves well to line drawings,
they are however, reasonably good for
photos so long as they aren’t over
compressed. For the same colour depth
they will generally have a much
smaller file size then png because
some information is effectively
thrown away on save.
Cheers, Al