Introduction To Making

Multimedia
Basic
Software Tools
Multimedia software tells the hardware what to do.
Basic Software Tools
Text Editing and Word
Processing Tools
Painting and Drawing Tools
3-D Modeling and
Animation Tools
Image-Editing Tools
Sound-Editing Tools
Animation, Video, and
Digital Movie Tools
Text Editing and Word Processing Tools
First software tool computer users learn.
These are tools used for text editing and
modification.
Letters, invoices, and storyboards to
project content, all needs word processing
tools.
Microsoft Word ,WordPerfect,
openoffice,etc are powerful applications
that include spell checkers, table
formatters,etc.
 Why Open office software?
OCR Software
Optical character recognition
OCR Software turns bitmapped
characters into electronically
recognizable text.
Most OCR applications claim about 99
percent accuracy when reading 8- to
36-point printed characters at 300 dpi.

Eg. Adobe Acrobat Professional

2.Painting and Drawing Tools
Painting
Software's-
Photoshop,
Fireworks
and Painter
is used for
producing
bitmap
images
2.Painting and Drawing Tools
Drawing Software-
CorelDraw,
Freehand,Illustrator
,Desinger and
Canvas is for
producing vector-
based line art
easily printed to
paper at high
resolution
2.Painting and Drawing Tools
graphical user interface with pull-down menus, Color
or other palette control, etc
Scalable dimensions, so that you can resize, stretch,
and distort both large and small bitmaps
Paint tools to create geometric shapes, from squares
to circles and from curves to complex polygons
The ability to pour a color, pattern, or gradient into
any area
The ability to paint with patterns and clip art
Customizable pen and brush shapes and sizes
An eyedropper tool that samples colors
2.Painting and Drawing Tools
Support for scalable
text fonts and drop
shadows
Good file importing
and exporting
capability for image
formats such as PIC,
GIF, TGA, TIF, PNG,
WMF, JPG, PCX, EPS,
PTN, and BMP
3. 3-D Modeling and Animation Tools
Autodesk's Maya, Strata 3D,Avids Softimage, 3D
Max are used for creating models and animations.
 3. 3-D Modeling and Animation Tools
3-D is an
abbreviation for
“three dimensions.”
x, y and z
3-D helps modeling
and rendering,
where objects can
be rotated and
viewed from any
direction or angle.
 3. 3-D Modeling and Animation Tools
A good 3-D modeling tool
should include the
following features:
Multiple windows that allow
you to view your model in
each dimension, from the
camera’s perspective, and
in a rendered preview.
The ability to drag and
drop primitive shapes into a
scene
 3. 3-D Modeling and Animation Tools
The ability to create organic
objects from scratch
Color and texture mapping
The ability to add realistic
effects such as
transparency, shadowing,
and fog
Unlimited cameras with
focal length control
And many more.
4. Image Editing Tools
These are tools for enhancing and retouching existing
bitmapped images.
4. Image Editing Tools
Multiple windows that provide views of more than one
image at a time.
Conversion of major image formats
Direct inputs of images from scanner and video
sources.
4. Image Editing Tools
Capable selection tools,
such as rectangles,
lassos, and magic
wands, for selecting
portions of a bitmap
Image and balance
controls for brightness,
contrast, and color
balance, sharpening
and smoothing controls
Multiple undo and
restore features
 4. Image Editing Tools
Tools for retouching,
blurring, sharpening,
lightening, darkening,
smudging, and tinting
Geometric
transformations such as
flip, skew, rotate, and
distort, and perspective
changes
4. Image Editing Tools
The ability to
resample and
resize an image
Customizable
brush shapes and
gradient fills
Filters for special
effects
5. Sound Editing Tools
 These tools are used to cut, copy, paste i.e. to edit
sound.
 Example- Sound Forge, Adobe Audition.
6. Animation, Video, and Digital Movie
Tools
Tools such as Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro (FCP),
Video Shop and Media Studio Pro is used to
edit and assemble video clips captured from camera,
tape, SD card, etc
 Help to add digitized movie segments, animations,
scanned images and from digitalized audio.
The completed clip then added with transition and
visuals effects and played back