There are two ways to capture images from your Comics to add to your Digital Exhibit.
- From the material copy of your comic in RULA Special Collections:
- Make an appointment with Special Collections to see your comic book number
- Take photographs of the images you want with your phone or camera
- Upload your images to the Media Library* on the CLA Student Exhibition site for use in your Digital Exhibit
- From the PDF of the comic you downloaded from Library & Archives Canada
- Open the pdf and scroll to the page with the image you want to capture
- In Windows open the “Snipping” tool
- On Mac open the “Grab” tool
- Use either of these tools to choose a selection of the page
- Save the image as a jpeg
- Keep images to about 50KB
- Upload your images to the Media Library* on the CLA Student Exhibition site for use in your Digital Exhibit
*You will find the Media Library in the Dashboard of the CLA Student Exhibition Site. For more specific instructions, see Guide to Building Digital Exhibit and Guide to Creating Captions.
- Go to Media > Add New >then upload your image
- Go to Media > Library, click on your image and fill out metadata:
- You will add a Caption to the image, in MLA 8th ed style, that attributes the image to its creator, describes the source, medium, location, and other pertinent information. (Consult the UBC http://copyright.ubc.ca/guidelines-and-resources/support-guides/image-citation-guide for instructions about what information belongs in your caption and the ENG 810 Guide to Credits for Images)
- In the Caption put the title of the work in quotation marks or you can put the title inside <em>your title goes here</em> which will display as italic (quotations are used for titles of parts of standalone publications; italics are used for titles of standalone publications)
- Add Alt Text (description of contents for screen readers for the visually impaired)