Graduation Clipart Backgrounds

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These graduation clipart backgrounds will be perfect for use as screensavers, the background image for a web page or even the background image for creating your own graduation announcements, invitations or even gradation stationary. Whatever the project feel free to use any of these free graduation backgrounds.

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If you want to use these graduation clipart backgrounds for a graduation announcemnt or graduation invitation. All you need to do is add some great wording over the top. If you are not sure how to do this then just follow the simple steps below:

• Open a new doc in your word processing tool and set up the page size - choose File and Page setup
• Right-click your mouse over any clipart that you’d like to use and select “copy”
• Place your curser on the area within your word doc where you want the clipart to go and right-click and select “paste”
• Click on the clipart so that some tiny squares appear
• Place your curser over the squares until a double headed arrow appears
• Left-click the mouse and drag to stretch the clipart over the entire page
• Right-click over the clipart and choose ”format picture”
• Select the “Layout” tab and choose the “behind text” option
• You are now ready to add whatever wording you desire.

It's actually possible to use any clipart at all as a background - all you need to do is apply a washout to it. You can do this by following these simple steps:

• Right-click over the clipart and choose ”format picture”
• Select the “picture” tab and choose the “washout” option for “color”.

Graduation Clip Art Projects

There are loads of things you can make with these great graduation clip art images. Check this list for some inspiration:

• Graduation announcements
• Graduation party invitations
• Save the date cards
• Envelopes and envelope seals
• Thank you notes
• Graduation party favor tags
• Place cards for a sit down meal
• Party hats
• Game certificate awards.

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You could even make personalized t-shirts or sweatshirts with the help of t-shirt transfer paper. Also “save the date” fridge magnets could easily be made by printing the graduation clip art onto magnetic paper which can be purchased from a craft store.

Click back to the main graduation clip art page for detailed instructions on how to make the items listed above.

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Now for some more detailed graduation clipart techniques - I have listed several below which I hope you will find useful. You may find you are limited by the word processing tool you are using but certainly Microsoft Word 2003 can handle all the techniques listed below:

How to Copy the Graduation ClipArt Backgrounds from This Page

If you like any of the graduation clipart backgrounds shown here then:

• right click your mouse over the image and select "copy" (Cntrl + C)
• enter your word processing package and select “paste” (Cntrl + V) .

How to Re-Size Your Graduation Clipart Backgrounds

It is amazingly easy to either make your graduation clipart backgrounds bigger or smaller - just follow the simple instructions below:

• Click on the picture and some little squares will appear around the perimeter of the image
• Move your mouse over one of the squares on the corner
• Right click your mouse and drag your mouse in the desired direction depending on whether you want to increase or decrease the size of the graduation clipart backgrounds.

Rotate your Graduation Clipart Backgrounds

Even just tilting your graduation clipart backgrounds to the side a bit can make it more interesting or using several clip art and tilting them in different directions. You are sure to have fun playing around with different designs. To do this I use Microsoft Word 2003 and click on the image I wish to rotate and I can then select one of the rotate buttons on the picture toolbar.

Text Wrapping

There are various text wrapping options you can choose that determine how the wording and graduation clipart backgrounds image will work together on the page. Within your word document click on the image and select the various word wrapping options from the picture toolbar and experiment. The options available are:

• In line with text - this is the default and it basically means that the graduation clipart backgrounds is inserted where ever the curser is when you choose inert or paste and the text that you type will start appearing underneath the image.
• Square text wrapping - this is where a square space surrounds your graduation clipart and the text wraps around this square.
• Tight - this means that the text actually wraps itself tightly around the shape of the image.
• Behind Text - this option puts the graduation clip art in the background with text over the top of it. This works best if you “washout” your graduation clip art first.
• Top and Bottom - this is where you can add text both above and below the image.

There are a few others but I think the 5 above are the most useful.

Apply a Washout to Your Graduation Clipart Backgrounds

You can actually apply a washout to any clip art at all. If you do this and then stretch the clip art to cover your whole page and add some great text over the top it makes really great graduation announcement or invitations. I have done exactly this for some of my free printable graduation invitations - why not have a look for some inspiration.

If you would like to give this a try then just follow the simple directions below:

• Copy the graduation clipart from this or any of the other web pages onto your word document.
• Right-click with your mouse over the top of the graduation clip art image within your word document.
• Select "format picture".
• Select the "picture" tab.
• Choose the “washout” option for “color”.
• Select the “Layout” tab and choose the “behind text” option.
• You are now ready to add whatever wording you desire.

How to Change the Color of the Graduation Clipart Backgrounds

This is a fantastic discovery. I can change the color of any component of a graduation clipart image. It is a little fiddely but well worth having a go at. Again I used Microsoft Word 2003 in order to do this.

• Copy the clip art from the web page onto your word document.
• Right-click with your mouse over the top of the graduation clip art image within your word document.
• Select "show picture tool bar".
• Move your mouse over all the icons on the picture toolbar until you find the "set transparent color" option (looks a bit like a rubber with an arrow head at the bottom).
• Now click with your mouse over the component of the graduation clip art which you would like to change the color of - this will wash the color out.
• Right-click with your mouse over the top of the clip art image within your word document again.
• Select "format picture"
• Select "Color and lines"
• Select a color under the "fill" category and click OK
• Immediately you will see that you clip art color has changed.

How fantastic is that - did you know that the color purple is synonymous with graduation.

Crop the Graduation Clipart Backgrounds

If for whatever reason you would like to chop part of a graduation clipart image off then here are some easy instructions for you to follow. This technique is especially useful for photographs when you maybe want to cut out some boring background if there is too much of it showing but perhaps there will be an occasion when you'd like to home in on a particular component of a graduation clip art image too.

• Copy the free graduation background clipart from this or any of the other web pages onto your word document.
• Right-click with your mouse over the top of the clip art image within your word document.
• Select "format picture".
• Select the "picture" tab.
• Next just adjust the "crop from" options (left, right, top and bottom) in order to obtain the desired result.

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