This three-workshop series will answer all your technical and ethical questions about adding images to educational and outreach materials. We will focus the skills and knowledge we need to create and use images without using AI but we will discuss the use of AI images in the section about copyright and fair use.

Topic that will be discussed:
Technical knowledge and skills

• Ideas for using images

• Image formats and transparency

• Basic editing of images

• Including images in common tools (Word, PowerPoint, …)

• Working with images in web tools (website)

• Dynamic sizing especially Google Sites 

• Compressing images

Ethical use

• Open source images: copyright (Canada), copyleft

• Images in Canva and copyright especially with free accounts 

• Can I use images from Google search? Search by copyright permissions.

• Copyrighting images: creative commons

• Getting permissions from people - sample consent forms

• AI images - when and how to use them; how to recognize them - how to reference AI images