Be kind to your mouse. Give it a nice pad to live on. Laser Optical mice like a nice pad. A customized mouse pad is a nice way to personalize your digital work space. They also make a nice gift for that certain someone. Your mouse pad can have have digital photographic images from a digital camera or scanned from a traditional  film image and/or it can have art or logos that you create in a graphics software. Your teacher will be looking for the tasteful rendering of your images and the application of the principles of design  and the design process. Simply pulling images from the Internet and dropping them onto your canvas is not acceptable!! You have developed some great skills and will continue to with this project. Remember imagination is the fuel of the future! Technical Details YOUR MOUSE PAD WILL BE CIRCULAR your design canvas should have the following dimensions width  = 8" inches height = 8" inches set the image resolution at 300 DPI AVOID USING IMAGE DESIGNS THAT DEPEND ON A BORDER AS THIS MAY GET TRIMMED OFF IN PROCESSING Leave  at least 1cm around the edge of your primary image remember your canvas is rectangular so the corners of your image will be trimmed off to round the mouse pad edges. all files that are not needed should be removed from your disk (format). be sure to work within the time frame given by your teacher as our pricing depends on batch printing not a file here and there   print REVERSE IMAGE on INKJET PRINTER (not laser)   print at T-SHIRT PRESS HOT PEEL paper backing                                     EVALUATION