BASICS OF COMPUTER

MULTIMEDIA
Designing still Grapics using Graphic Software
What is Computer Graphics ?
 Computer graphics deals with generating images with the aid of computers.
Today, computer graphics is a core technology in digital photography, film,
video games, cell phone and computer displays, and many specialized
applications.

What is Graphics Software ?

 In computer graphics, graphics software refers to a program or collection of
programs that enable a person to manipulate images or models visually on a
computer.
 Computer graphics can be classified into two distinct categories: raster
graphics and vector graphics,
Types of Graphics
 All digital image files in whole world fall into one of two categories in
graphics
1.Raster Graphics
2.Vector Graphics

Raster Graphics
 A raster graphic represents a two-dimensional picture as a rectangular matrix
or grid of square pixels, viewable via a computer display, paper, or other
display

Vector Graphics
 Vector graphics is a form of computer graphics in which visual images are
created directly from geometric shapes defined on a Cartesian plane, such as
points, lines, curves and polygons.
 Vector Image Raster Image

Resolution scalable pixel, device dependent

File Size small large, depends on exported
resolution
Fonts,Logos
T-shirts
Digital printing (e.g., Photography
Usage business cards, billboards) Print Materials
Lower thirds for video Photo Editing
2D or 3D computer
animation

File Formats EPS,SVG,AI BMP,GIF,JPG,PNG,TIFF

Raster-based software (e.g.,

Software Vector-based software Adobe Photoshop)
(e.g., Adobe Illustrator) Digital cameras
Scanned images
 Properties of a digital image
Pixels
 Pixels -Pixels are the smallest unit in a digital display. Up to millions of
pixels make up an image or video on a device's screen. 
 Each pixel is a sample of an original image,

Resolution
 Image resolution is typically described in PPI, which
refers to how many pixels are displayed per inch of an image.
 which is expressed as a measurement of the number of rows and columns of pixels an
image contains, such as 640x480.

Color
 Images containing three color channels, represented in a certain way, for
example RGB—red, green, blue—or HSI—hue, saturation, intensity.
 CMYK is intended for print-based design because the color values determine how
much cyan, magenta, yellow, and black ink is used by the printer for each color
Designing still Grapics using Graphic Software
 Introduction to windows photo and video editor
 Crop ,rotate etc
 Functions of windows photo editor

 Introduction to a graphic design software

 Open,edit & save
 Scaling & transformation
 Selection,cut,copy,crop & replace
 Working with layers
 Working with text
Basic video editing and audio
 Introduction to windows video editor
 Importing
 Adding audio to a video
 Functions of windows photo editor

 Introduction to a video editing software

 Editing and merging multiple videos
 Extracting audui from a video
 Formating and exporting
 Video and audio export formats
Video formats
 Mp4 - (MPEG-4 Part 14) is the most common type of video file format.
 Avi - AVI (Audio Video Interleave) works with nearly every web browser
 WMV - (Windows Media Viewer) files offer good video quality and large file size like
MOV. Microsoft developed WMV for Windows Media Player. YouTube supports WMV, 
 MPEG -2 - If you want to burn your video to a DVD, MPEG-2 with an H.262 codec is
the way to go.
 
Audio formats
 M4A - is an mpeg-4 audio file. It is an audio-compressed file used in the modern
setting due to increased quality demand as a result of cloud storage and bigger
 MP3 -is an MPEG audio layer 3 file format. The key feature of MP3 files is the
compression that saves valuable space while maintaining near-flawless quality
of the original source of sound.
 WAV - is a Waveform Audio File that stores waveform data. The waveform data
stored presents an image that demonstrates strength of volume and sound in
specific parts of the WAV file.