MANIPULATING DIGITAL IMAGES

IMAGE EDITING BASIC

1.      Most multimedia authoring programs, at least for now, import bitmaps.

2.      Painting Software (bitmap)

-          Adobe PhotoShop, Corel Painter, PaintShop Pro, Corel

-          Photopaint, Fractal Designer, Microsoft Paint

3.      Drawing Software (vector)

-          CorelDraw, FreeHand, Illustrator, Designer, and Deneba Canvas.

-          Macromedia’s Flash

IMAGE EDITING TOOLS

1.      Are specialized and powerful tools for enhancing and retouching, existing bitmapped images

2.      PaintShop Pro & Adobe PhotoShop

3.      GIMP (Free-Open Source)

IMAGE EDITING PROGRAMS ENABLE THE USER TO:

1.      Enhance and make composite images.

2.      Alter and distort images.

3.      Add and delete elements.

4.      Also can be used to :

-          create user interface & navigation system

-          manipulate images

-          object transformation

-          create variety of text & shape

-          give special effect to the image and etc.

IN GENERAL, THE EDITING AND PAINT TOOLS FALL INTO 5 CATEGORIES:

1.      Painting Tools – Pencil, Airbrush, Line, Bucket

2.      Draw Tools – Rectangle, Circle, Curve, Freeform,Polygon

3.      Editing Tools – Eraser, Cropping, Lasso, Eyedropper,Marquee.

4.      Type Tools – Integrate text and manipulate fonts

5.      Selection Tools – Lasso, Magic wand, Move.

6.      The use and combination of these tools and variations will help you create and edit images.

ACTION

1.      Actions are simply a means to record all the commands used to generate an effect in Photoshop for re-application later.

2.      Want your text to look like Melted Gold with a wood grain running along the border of the letter?

3.      Something like this might take awhile to work out in Photoshop, but if someone has already turned the process into an action, you can apply this effect to your text with ONE CLICK on the Actions Play Button.

4.      Now imagine you have to create the headers for 30 different web pages using this same effect.

5.      Without actions you would have to walk through the process 30 times, taking hours or days to complete the task.

6.      If you had an Action script, you could be done in as little as 30 minutes, maybe sooner!

7.      Simply starting the action, typing your text, and hitting play again will create your effect.