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Topic 11. Basic Software Tools. Lecture Objectives. Understand common programs that are used Determine which graphics programs to use in various multimedia projects, including draw, paint, and 3-D programs

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  1. Topic 11 Basic Software Tools

  2. Lecture Objectives • Understand common programs that are used • Determine which graphics programs to use in various multimedia projects, including draw, paint, and 3-D programs • Understand how graphics and animation programs are used in multimedia projects and discuss their capabilities • Identify tools used to handle video in multimedia projects and discuss their capabilities, and how they capture, process and compress video.

  3. Introduction • Tools used for creating and editing multimedia elements on both systems (Windows and Macintosh) support authoring systems • They support paint, image processing, image editing, drawing and illustration, 3-D and CAD, OCR and text editing, sound recording and editing, video and movie making, and various utilitarian housekeeping tasks.

  4. Text Editing and Word Processing Tools • The better your keyboarding or typing skills, the easier and more efficient your multimedia skills would be.

  5. Text Editing and Word Processing Tools • Bundled in office suite that include spreadsheet, database, e-mail, web browser and presentation applications

  6. Text Editing and Word Processing Tools • Microsoft Word or WordPerfect include spellcheckers, table formatters, thesaureses, prebuilt templates for letters, resumes, purchase orders and more.

  7. OCR Software • With a flat-bed scanner, computer and OCR software, you can save hours of rekeying printed words, be more productive and produce more accurate results How it works? - OCR software turns bitmapped characters into electronically

  8. Painting and Drawing Tools • To produce crafted bitmap images use Photoshop, Fireworks or Painter (PAINTING SOFTWARE) • CorelDraw, FreeHand, Illustrator, Designer and Canvas used to produce vector-based line art at high resolution (DRAWING SOFTWARE) • Some application combines BOTH features. • What FEATURES exactly??

  9. Features of Drawing & Painting Package • Pull down menus, status bars, palette control, dialog box • Scalable dimensions to resize, stretch, and distort both large and small bitmaps • Customizable pen and brush shapes and sizes • Screen capture capability • Zooming to magnify view • Good file importing and exporting capability for image formats such as .gif, .tif, .png,.bmp

  10. Features of a good 3D modeling • Multiple windows to view various dimension from a camera’s perspective • Ability to drag and drop primitive shape into a scene • Ability to create and sculpt object • Lathe and extrude features • Color and texture mapping • Ability to add realistic effects; transparency, shadowing and fog

  11. Features if IMAGE editing tools • Multiple windows • Image and balance controls for brightness, contrast and color balance • Sharpening and smoothing controls • Color mapping for color balance • Tools for retouching, blurring, sharpening, lightening, darkening, smudging and tinting • Geometric

  12. Features of Image editing tools • Filters for special effects, crystallize, dry brush, emboss, facet, fresco, graphic pen, mosaic, pixelize, poster, ripple, smooth, splatter, stucco, twirl, watercolor, wave and wind

  13. Compressing Movie Files 3 basic methods • Compression ratio – represents size of the original image divided by the size of the compressed image • Image quality – either lossy/lossless • Lossy – schemes ignore picture information that the viewer may not miss • Lossless- preserve original data, higher compression ratio, lower quality of the decompressed image

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