07-01-08 to the 11-01-08

Lecture

Todays lecture was all to do with the introduction to graphics. Multimedia is all to do with communication. Danial then started to to talk about what decisions we would have to make if we were the designers. We need to think multimedia as not just simple text. There was a whole list of decision but these are the main ones i spotted.

- Design decision
- Technical decision
- Client requirements

We then looked at a multimedia palette this was really interesting as it showed which objects were static and which were dynamic.

Danial then started to talk about different graphics such as images and high visual images. We then looked at how we gain these graphics from the real world.

Digital camera
Mobile phone camera
Digital video

we also looked electronically produced graphics to. We then talked about different ways we could use these graphics.

Tutorial


In the tutorial today we started with graphic designing on Photoshop CS3. I was quite excited as i haven't used photoshop since my 6th form days. So i was ready to go. Our research student gave a booklet out with information on todays work. We had to download various images of blackboard and re arrange them and edit them in photoshop to create the image they had in the booklet. I raced through the booklet making sure everything was correct. We then flattened the image. I then saved it various formats. this allowed me to upload it as a web image if i wished to do so..

Reflection

This weeks lecture was a big reality check for me as a been using graphics for lots of years now and never really stood the principle of them. Hearing Danial talk about all the differnt sources and meaning was extremely interesting.

I loved working on photoshop as it really interesting and exciting to try and create new ideas from scratch. Even though we had to follow a set guideline it became a apparate to me that i would never found out half as much i found out today if I was to carry out the task on my own.