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Digital Media: COMS 106. Images parente@csus.edu. Digital Media. Before You Create Images. Plan your approach Organize your tools. Digital Media. Making Still Images. Stills are drawn in one of two ways. Bitmaps. Vector-drawn graphics. Digital Media. Making Still Images.
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Digital Media: COMS 106 Images parente@csus.edu
Digital Media Before You Create Images Plan your approach Organize your tools
Digital Media Making Still Images Stills are drawn in one of two ways • Bitmaps • Vector-drawn graphics
Digital Media Making Still Images Stills are drawn in one of two ways Images are usually compressed
Digital Media Bitmaps Clip art
Digital Media Bitmaps Clip art Bitmap software
Digital Media Bitmaps Clip art Bitmap software Capturing Scanning
Digital Media Vector Drawings • Vector graphics are defined using formulas RECT 0,0,200,200,RED,BLUE
Digital Media Vector-Drawings vs. Bitmaps Vector drawings are easily scaled Vector files are usually smaller Calculation time can draw resources Bitmaps cannot easily be converted to vector Vector drawings require plug-ins
Digital Media 3-D Drawing 3-D software usually offers: • Directional lighting • Motion • Different perspectives
Digital Media 3-D Drawing 3-D objects combine various shapes
Digital Media 3-D Drawing Shapes can be extruded…
Digital Media 3-D Drawing …or lathed
Digital Media 3-D Drawing Gourand shading Flat shading Ray tracing Phong shading A scene can use different types of shading
Digital Media Panoramas QuickTime VR
Digital Media Color Quantum Theory • Atoms produce unique colors as light passes through • Light travels in the form of photons, or quanta Color is the frequency of a light wave • The rainbow shows the spectrum of visible colors • Colors below the range are infrared • Colors above the range are ultraviolet
Digital Media Color Computerized Color • Computers combine red, green, and blue (RGB) light • Bit depth determines the number of possible colors 1-bit 2 colors 4-bit 16 colors 8-bit 256 colors 24-bit 16,777,216 colors
Digital Media Color Computerized Color Television Color • Color is generated using the YUV color model • Luminance (Y) • Blue minus luminance (U) • Red minus luminance (V)
Digital Media Color Computerized Color Television Color Print Color • Color is generated using the CMYK color model • Cyan (C) • Magenta (M) • Yellow (Y) • Black (K)
Digital Media Image File Formats TIFF or .tif or Pict or .pic JPEG or .jpg GIF or .gif Cross Platform Issues Internet Issues
Digital Media Image Software
Digital Media Assignment for this week!!!