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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear Info-CHILDES subscribers,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks for all your reactions! Below I
compiled them, so that more people can benefit. For clarity, I copy-pasted my
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear Info-CHILDES subscribers,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am looking for a good and user-friendly drawing
program for the PC to create pictures for experiments with children between 1;6
and 6 years old. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Does any of you have a recommendation and an idea
of the price?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jeannette Schaeffer</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR><BR>Teresa
Guasti:</FONT></DIV></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>an alternative idea. Why don't you take pictures of
objects arranged as you want with a Digital camera, then you put them on a
computer and print these pictures with a color print? You do not need to make
any effort for drawing pictures.<BR><BR><BR>Karen Froud:<BR>I'm afraid we didn't
manage to find a nice easy<BR>software package to generate our images. We
dowloaded<BR>things from the web and then adjusted them as<BR>necessary using a
combination of photoshop and<BR>microsoft paint. All our items then got turned
into<BR>pictures inside word documents. I'm sure there must be<BR>a more
efficient way of going about it, but this was<BR>the best we could come up with
in the time - and it<BR>seems to have worked pretty well. Sorry not to be
more<BR>help.<BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Carol Slater:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm not sure what you want to do, but you might
want to look into Walter<BR>Beagley's EYELINES, which has PC and Mac versions.
It allows you not<BR>only to capture a drawing but also to collect data on the
sequence and<BR>timing of its constituents and interfaces nicely with
statistical<BR>programs.<BR>For information, contact <A
href="mailto:beagley@alma.edu">beagley@alma.edu</A>.<BR>Good
luck.<BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Keith Nelson:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Kid Pix costs around $40 and is very user
friendly. You <BR>might try it and see if it produces pictures in a format
that will <BR>work in your experiments. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ioulia Kovelman:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>You can try MSpaint, Coreldraw or
AdobePhotoshop.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'd say one of the most popular and commonly used
drawing programs<BR>in the U.S. is Adobe Illustrator. If you have
familiarity with other<BR>Adobe graphics programs (such as Photoshop), the
interface is similar, so<BR>it won't be too difficult even for a first-time user
to navigate within<BR>the program. If you have no experience using any of
the Adobe programs,<BR>you'll have some learning to do before getting
comfortable with the<BR>program (just as any other programs), in which case I'd
recommend "Adobe<BR>Illustrator Classroom in a Book" as a tutorial to cover the
basics (the<BR>book comes with a CD-ROM containing 16 lessons).<BR>As for the
price, if you are eligible for the "Educational<BR>Version" (which I believe you
are), it'll be about $300 or less. You can<BR>get more information about
the product at <A href="http://www.adobe.com">www.adobe.com</A>.<BR><BR>Hope
this helps.<BR><BR>Tomoko Asano<BR></DIV></FONT>
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Schaeffer, Ph.D.<BR>Department of Foreign Literatures and
Linguistics<BR>Ben-Gurion University of the Negev<BR>P.O. Box 653<BR>Be'er Sheva
84105<BR>ISRAEL<BR>Phone: +972-8-646 1118<BR>Fax: +972-8-647
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