M3 What impact of resolution and colour depth have on file size and image quality.

The three iamges which are shown above show that when you adjust the photo colours and image size to much, you can lose the photo quality. When the image is made too big or too small then it starts to become pixalated and the quality of that image is lost. Again the same for the colour quality if it is changed too much the biggest effect is not the colour but the quality of the image. So therefore when you are editing images you need to be careful not to manipulate the image to much as the quality of the image is at state. This post goes with my post on file extentions done on Thursday, 8 May 2008.

Explain potential legal implications of using and editing graphical images P6

Copyright

Copyright is where somebody has the right to the copy of the creation, normally for a limited time only. Copyright is a law and therefore is illegal to be broken, however you are able to copy an image as long as credited is given to the creater and you are not using it for money. You can only copyright an physical creation and not an idea.

Identifying ownership

Identifying ownership helps you find out whether or not a graphic can be reused. Images sometimes have the name of the owner or who the image is copyright too on the image or close to. However sometimes there is no name printed on the image so normaly the image will the belong to the publisher or website.

Gaining Permissions

To gain permission to the image you need to contact the copyright owner and ask permission for the image, usually if you are using the image to make money, a percentage of that money needs to go to the copyright owner.

Copyright Fee

Copyright free images can used by anyone. For example www.freeimages.co.uk/

Preview Film Poster P5

The final design which i have been asked to do, is to make a preview film poster for a new film which has been announced and will be coming out later next year. The film is called schools out and is about a two teenages who leave home for the summer with their older and younger sister. They then travel the USA and fly to the UK to discover what the UK has to offer for them.

Audience

The film must show the cast members and film title in large text, it needs to display the catch phrase which is "Work HARD play HARDER". It will also need to include some image of a suggestion of school.

Colour
The colour used needs to be bold and bright to catch the public eye.

Final Design

Conclusion

In this design I have chosen to scan the image of school equipment to suggest the theme of school. I have used bright colours such as the red pencil and box. The text colour is white which makes it stand out to the audiences eye. The Title, slogan, coming soon and cast names are clearly shown in large white text. I have chossen to use the file type of a jpeg because it means that i can resize it and still get a good quality picture.

The beginning scanned image

DVD Slip P5

I need to design the DVD slip that will be inserted on the outside of a new horror film called the Black Night. The film is about a group of friends who go out in the night and experience a dram tic experience, including vampire like creatures. When the friends need to defend for their life when they fight the head vampire, who turns out to kill them all. The DVD slip needs to include a professional front cover to sell the film and a blurb on the reverse side of the DVD, it will also need to include all the details of the film including the age rating, which is an 18. This will be made from the image that i took of trees.

Audience

It will need to look professional and include pictures of vampires and the main characters which star in the film. It will need to sell the film to the audience, and make it look like a horror film.

Colours

Black, white and red

Final Design

Conclusion

My design was made from the image off trees, and then using different layers i was then able to add images of the vampires and the main stars who are casted in the film. My design does look professional and does make use of the colours which have been suggested. I have chossen to use the file type of a jpeg because it means that i can resize it and still get a good quality picture.

The beginning image

Film Poster P5

I need to design the poster for a new horror called the Black Night. The film is about a group of friends who go out in the night and experience a dram tic experience, including vampire like creatures. When the friends need to defend for their life when they fight the head vampire, who turns out to kill them all.

Audience
It needs to to look professional
It needs to look dark
It needs to include images of vampire creatures, woods and people.

Colours
Black, Red and White

Final Design

Conclusion

My design was made from the image which i took with the camera of a forest are and started off with the picture shown below:

My design does look look professional, and it does look dark to show the horror theme. The image does include pictures of vampires and the woods and also the main characters which are included in the film. I have used the colours of white and black however i have changed the third colour from red to yellow as i though this gave the effect of mist in the forest. I have chossen to use the file type of a jpeg because it means that i can resize it and still get a good quality picture.
Beginning Image

Organics Foods P4 D1

An organics foods mobile fast-food service has requested a roadside sign. It will be used on a stand so when its van is parked in a lay-by offering quality burgers and all-day breakfasts, passing motoists will notice it.

Audience
It needs to look proffesinal
It needs to show the effect of organic products
It needs to show the image of a burger
The word Organic needs to be large.

Colours
Many people represent the colour green to the word organic, so the sign needs to involve the colour green.

Final Design

Conclusion D1

In conclusion the sign does look professional and the grass does give the effect of an organic feel. An image of a burger is used on the poster which helps to show the customer what they are trying to sell quick and is able to catch the drivers eye. The word organic is in green large text.

Software and tools used

I used photo shop cs to design this poster as it includes all the tools i needed to produce my desired outcomes. For example i needed to use the opacity tool to make the grass image fade in the background so the text stands.

File Type

I have saved the image as a jpeg because jpeg it compresses with little loss of the image quality. The image size that i used was 500 x 800, i have used this image size because it can easily be made larger all smaller with out losing the picture quality. However if made to large it could become pixelated.

Microsoft go to Birmingham P4 D1

ep Microsoft has approached Visual Impact to produce some displays for its stand at a show to be held in the Birmingham NEC publicising its newest operating system. Produce a graphic that could be printed onto a large piece of card to be used on the Microsoft stand.

Audience
It needs to look professional
The company logo needs to be large and the title of the company.
It needs to involve the idea of being happy

Colour Scheme
The colour scheme needs to match the same scheme as the current Microsoft colour’s.

Final Design

D1

My design does reach all of the criteria it does and does look professional, the Microsoft vista logo is currently showing large at the top of the picture, followed by Microsoft and their own slogan. The picture does give the customer the feel of happiness as the people are cheering and look very happy. The picture does not have a colour background and which helps the image of the happy people and logo stand out.

Software and Tools

I have decided to again use the photoshop application to design this poster for Microsoft. This is because i needed many tools to develop this poster.The tools which i used included the blending tool which was used to blend the happy people in to the white background. I also needed to use text effect and photoshop has many proffesional tools and effect which can be added to the text such as shaddow effect which i used. Photoshop is also very useful when it comes to designing the layout, as it has an easy drag and drop interface. I also used the resize and crop tool to many of the images used, this is because i needed them to fit a specigic size to fill the displays canvas size.

Colour Depth

The high colour depth which i used, was to allow the prints out of the poster to be the best quality that they can be so to acheive this i needed to use the highest colour depth that there is. I also needed to make the images which i used within the poster large which was required by the user.

File Format/Size

I again saved the image as a jpeg because jpeg it compresses with little loss of the image quality. The picture size i have chosen to use is 1000x1598, i have chosen to use this because it is a suiable size for a mock up of the actually real life size as i would like the proportions to be the same. I also saved the image as a jpeg so it can be viewed on the internet, also by saving the file as a jepg means that the file is versatile and can be viewed on any computer even without the adobe photoshop software. However this means that file can not be edited once saved as a jpeg but does mean that the file is smaller than the actually photoshop file type.

Encert P4 D1

Whats EnCert

EnCert is a new company providing Energy Certificates to homeowners. They require a logo for their website and letterheads. EnCert needs the logo to look professional and make the clients to associated it with energy (gas, electricity etc).

Audience
Energy (Electricity, blue, gas, blue… look at other logos…. Perhaps GREEN for environmental theme.)
Selling 4+ bedrooms houses….. more money people….

The colour scheme
The colour scheme needs to be warm and use colour’s which could represent of electric and gas.

Final Design

Conclusion D1
The following picture does meet my requirements as it has a warm and energy feel to it, and it looks professional. The leaves in the picture and windmill suggest to the customer that it is energy efficient.

Tools and software

I have decided to use the photo shop application to design the logo. I needed to add text effects, clone different shapes in the image and change the contrast levels, so this makes photo shop ideal to use. By using these tools it makes the logo more proffesional and look like a logo which can actualy be used for the face of the company

File Type

I again saved the image as a vector image because then the user can make the picture larger and smaller without making the picture distorted. The picture size i have chosen to use is 500x800, i have chosen to use this because it is a suitable size for an logo. By using a vector image it makes it easy when reusing it over and over, for document headers, in emails and other places where the logo needs to be displayed.

Graphic File Extensions

Which is better?

The better of the 5 programme can be decided on what photo type you are editing and what you want to do with the photo. The most proffesional package is Adobe photoshop as it allows you to manipulate the image and it can use either a vector or bitmap, but its better with photo images. Photoshop allows you to change, anything from the colours to the contrast and brightness of the image. The most simpilest drawing package is paint as it only has the most basic tools for example the fill tool and the paint brush tool. Corel Draw is another programme which can be used to design images, mostly vectors, as it uses lines to draw the images, which means it has difficultys when using bitmaps in this programme.

Graphic Facilities which are Embedded

In modern day applications they will need to include the basic tools for images, such as crop and the size of the image. These applications are like microsoft word and powerpoint, however they dont have the tools that the main program such as photoshop.

Photo Manipulation

Photo Manipulation is when you are able to improve or change a graphical image to make it look more professional, this can be done in files such as photoshop and paint shop pro. The programmes allows the user to use paint brushes, change the images contrast levels and colour levels. Use tools like magic wand, crop, sponge, clone stamp and other tools.

Bitmap Images

Bitmap images are made of up of pixels. Pixels are just small squares which means as long as the squares are small and are from a distance the image will look fine. This develops a disadvatage which is when you are zoomed up in size the picture does not look as good and becomes bolcky One common problem with BITMAP images is that they do not look as good when they are zoomed up in size which makes it hard to edit. A common program which uses bitmap images is paint.

Vector Images

A vector image has its advantages such as, the image can be made larger and it will still have the same size file. This is because a vector image is a set of instrutions, which means instructions you can make the image as large as you like and the line will always be clear.A distadvantage to vectors it is that some images are not suitable for example, a photograph would need so many vector instructions to create it, its better you make it a bitmap . However vectors are better for shapes like letters and autoshapes also logos are ideal for storing as vector images.

D2 Evoloving Technology

Larger monitors are helping us improve technology. We are buying larger monitors so we need to have larger images on our websites because of the higher resolution, which is OK because we also have broadband which allows us to download these larger images. We also have new programmes and better graphics devices which allows us to manipulate pictures and increase the speed of the programmes. We also have better printers are now available, which means we can print of the images in a higher quality then before. Today the most common printer which is used is the laser printer, for the reasons that it can print faster and at a better quality to its older printers such as desk jet and dot-matrix printer. However the disadvantage of all this technology is the money, all of them come with a high cost. To buy a 24" monitor your looking at least 200£ and up. A graphics card cans set you back £50. However most of the money goes in to your software, for adobe photoshop it will cost $999. Printers can range between the prices of £100 - £1000.

Printers

There are three types of printers:
Dot Matrix
These printers are popular for producing graphical images. The printer has a grid of tiny pins to transfer ink from a ribbon to the page. Dot matrix printers can produce basic graphics, but are not as good as an inkjet printer's quality. They're loud and slow.

Inkjet Printer
This printer shoots fast-drying ink through small nozzles onto paper to form images. Many people at home and small companies use an inkjet printer as their standard printer is currently the standard. Inkjets are fast, affordable, and relatively quiet. They are high-quality graphics, and they print in color.

Laser Printer
Laser printers use static electricity and heat to produces imaged on to paper. Many offices, business use laser printers to produce fast and good quality black text. However they are expensive to run as the toners cost a lot to buy.

All of these printers are used today and can be still found in different situtations.

Monitor

LCD Monitors
LCD (liquid crystal display) monitors are modern. Inside the screen is a matrix panel, the panel is connected to a chip which which address the display with the picture data, and are driven by the rest of the monitors electronics. These monitors are reasonably expensive compared to others. The speed of the screen depends on the referesh rate and speed of the computer, the higher the refresh rate the faster the screen will react.
Require less power
Smaller and weigh less
More adjustable
Less eye strain

CRT Monitors
A CRT monitor contains millions of tiny red, green, and blue phosphor dots that glow when struck by an electron beam that travels across the screen to create a visible image. They are old technology compared to the new LCD Monitors which are used mostly today. These monitors however are cheap compared to LCD.
Images can blur
Bright areas can cause other areas to dim
Lacks text contrast
Not pixel based

It is now clear that the new LCD monitors are better for you then CRT monitors this is because they are better for your eyes and produce a clearer image than CRT, for the main reason that they use pixals.

Upgrade the system P2 M1

The current System

Intel Pentium D 'Dual Core X2' CPU (5.3 Ghz)
VIA Chipset 1066 Mhz Motherboard - slots available: AGP8x (1), PCI (3), RAM (2); ports available: LAN (1), USB (6)
512 MB RAM
80 GB HDD (SATA300)
18X DVD+/-RW Dual Layer & Dual Format
onboard UniChrome PRO 3D Graphics with 64 MB shared memory
mouse and keyboard
15" flat screen
cheap inkjet printer

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The system shown, could have the ram, graphics and the screen could all be upgraded. The Ram which is in this system is only 512 and neededs to be upgraded to 1GB or more for the computer to work effeciently when editinng and creating graphical images, otherwise expect a lot of system crashes. The same goes for the the graphics card which is onboard, which will have some problems when being used in graphic software packages. The graphics card will need a higher memory from at least 512mb and above. The screen will needed to be larger to at least 21", to be able to get the most of their computer.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------This is sutable ram for the system:

Kingston ValueRAM memory - 1 GB - FB-DIMM - DDR II - 400 MHz

HEWLETT PACKARD HP Memory/1GB - DDR II SDRAM -667 MHz

The best of the two ram which i have chossen is the HP Ram compared to the Kingston ram. Even though they both are 1 GB the HP ram has a speed of 667 MHz and the kingston has a speed of 400MHz. So this means that the Hp ram can preform faster than the other 1 GB ram. Which is what we want when we are editing photos on computers as most applications today need alot of ram to run the program because of all the tools used.

This is sutable Graphics for the system:
Bus Connector - PCI Express x16
Graphics Processor / Vendor - GeForce 8500GT
RAMDAC Clock Speed - 450 MHz
API Supported - DirectX: DX9.0-10.0
Memory Interface - 128-bit DDR2
Outputs - VGA, DVI-I DUAL LINK HDTV-OUT

This is sutable Monitor for the system:

flat panel display 22"
Brightness
300 cd/m2 (typical)
Max Resolution
1680 x 1050
VGA (HD-15)
Contrast Ratio
100:1

24" Widescreen
Height, Swivel, Tilt
Anti-reflective, Hard coating
Picture in picture
sRGB colour management

Contrast Ratio700:1

Brightness 500 cd/m2 (typical)

The monitor that i have chossen is the second one. The main reason for this choice is the size of the monitor which is 24", a bonus of this monitor is the abliity to tilt the monitor. The contrast ratio of this monitor is alot better than the 1st one which was 100:1 and the second one is 700:1 this is clearly has the better ratio. This is because the larger the contrast ratio the greater the ability there is to show colour details. Again the second one has better brigtness abilities, this is because the 1st one only has 300 cd/m2 and the second screen has 500 cd/m2, and again the higher the candela per square meter the higher the brightness can go, this does not instantly mean that the monitor will be better but is helps alot to see the screen in different light situations.

Whats required for using graphical images? P1

MOUSE
A mouse is the key way of communicating with the computer itself. Without the mouse you are not able to manipulate graphical images.

SCREEN
This is where the operating system can be shown to the user in a GUI,

GRAPHIC TABLET
This is a mouse replacement, pressure sensitive pen and tablet. It works more efficiently than a mouse. You can customise pen buttons to any mouse button or invoke commands such as Undo, Copy, Paste. You can use the pen to draw or trace. A graphic tablets allow the user to work in a powerful, time saving way .

DIGITAL CAMERA
A digital camera allows you to electronically import a version of the picture to the computer. A digital camera allows you to take more of the picture that you actually see with a high mega pixel size.

SCANNER
Scanners can be used to convert text documents or photographs into digital files.

FLASH CARDS
Flash cards are storage for many portable objects which are often used to store the photos from digital cameras.

USB
The USB is portable and can be taken to any computer that has a USB, they are used for storing files from office files to images.

HARD DRIVE
The hard disk drive (HDD) is a magnetic drive that stores a great amount of data that is fixed on to the hard drive. A hard drive
is a non-volatile storage device which stores digitally encoded data on rapidly rotating platters with magnetic surfaces.

GRAPHICS CARD
This is the component that puts the images on to the monitor. There are many different types of graphics card from different generations, and different years. An easy way to see if I graphics card is any good is by the memory of which it holds (cash) and the clocking speed of the card and its refresh rate.

PROCESSORS
The processor, is the component in a digital computer capable of executing a program, and controls everything and gives the computer all of its instructions to run the operating system.