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TUTORIAL: Photo Editing Basics with GIMP
Graphics are the “pictures” in technical communication: drawings, maps, photographs, diagrams, charts, graphs, and tables. Graphics range from realistic, such as photographs, to highly abstract, such as organization charts. They range from decorative, such as clip art and stock photos that show people seated at a conference table, to highly informative, such as a schematic diagram of an electronic device.
Graphics are important in technical communication because they do the following: