The small picture that accompanies your online presence at sites like Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn is known as an "avatar." Others see your avatar next to tweets or wall posts, making it an important visual identifier on many of the most-used daily sites. These sites are also becoming more important for personal business and branding. It's important to make sure your avatar is a clear, identifiable representation of your online persona.

Picture editing programs are designed to allow digital images to be manipulated using a computer. At their most basic, these programs can help with resizing an image, changing its colors and adding text. More comprehensive programs allow users to professionally enhance images and add a dazzling array of effects.

You created a graph or chart in Excel, but it is blocking important worksheet data you need to work with. Your options are to resize the chart so it does not block data or move the chart out of the way of the data.

OpenOffice Impress has a few design templates that contain a set of text and style formatting characteristics that will tie your presentation together with a consistent look. The steps below will walk you through applying one of these design templates to an existing or new Impress presentation.

Picasa is free photo management program offered by Google. Using this program, you can modify multiple images at the same time. Here is how you do it using the batch edit feature.