Pages


I made this widget at MyFlashFetish.com.

Monday, February 7, 2011

Chapter 4: Specialized Application Software

Introduction
  • Specialized applications make it possible to perform advanced tasks at home.
  • Home users can create Website sites, work with graphic images, and create music or art.
  • Robots now provide security and assistance in homes.
  • Competent and users need to be aware of specialized applications: 
  1. graphics programs
  2. audip and video editing software
  3. multimedia
  4. web authoring
  5. artificial intelligence
Desktop Publishing


Desktop publishing (also known as DTP) combines a personal computer and WYSIWYG page layout software to create publication documents on a computer for either large scale publishing or small scale local multifunction peripheral output and distribution.

The term "desktop publishing" is commonly used to describe page layout skills. However, the skills and software are not limited to paper and book publishing. The same skills and software are often used to create graphics for point of sale displays, promotional items, trade show exhibits, retail package designs and outdoor signs.

Graphics 

are visual presentations on some surface, such as a wall, canvas, computer screen, paper, or stone to  brands, inform, illustrate, or entertain. Examples are photographs, drawings, Line Art, graphs, diagrams, typography, numbers, symbols, geometric designs, maps, engineering drawings, or other images. Graphics often combine text, illustration, and color. Graphic design may consist of the deliberate selection, creation, or arrangement of typography alone, as in a brochure, flier, poster, web site, or book without any other element.

Clarity or effective communication may be the objective, association with other cultural elements may be sought, or merely, the creation of a distinctive style. Graphics can be functional or artistic. The latter can be a recorded version, such as a photograph, or an interpretation by a scientist to highlight essential features, or an artist, in which case the distinction with imaginary graphics may become blurred. There are types of graphics:
  • Desktop publishing
  • Image editors
  • Illustration programs
  • Image galleries
  • Graphic suites

Popular Programs


1. Adobe InDesign
     Basic applications of Adobe InDesign.
    2. Microsoft Publisher

     Basic applications of Microsoft Publisher.
    3. QuarkXPress

    http://8.quark.com/
    Basic application for Mac.
    Digital Video Editing

    • Capture Video
    • Edit a Movie
    • Create a DVD


    Multimedia

    The integration of a variety of media into one presentation 


    Video Music
    Voice

    Graphics

    Text
    Include user interactivity



    Links
               Can Be To.....



    video



    Sound



    Graphic



    Text File


    Buttons

    Buttons are links and provide the ability to navigate through a presentation




    Media Authoring Programs



    Special programs used to create multimedia presentations


    Bring together all the video, audio, graphics, and text elements


    Popular programs









     Web Authoring
    • Corporations use the Web to reach new customers.
    • Individuals create their own personal site called Web logs or Blogs 
      
    Website Design
    1. Definition: An interactive multimedia form of communication. 
    2. (graphical map). 




    Flora Photographs Web site





    Partial graphical map for the Flora Photographs Web site






    3. Multimedia elements are added to individual pages to enhance interest and interactivity.


    4. One multimedia element found on many Web sites is moving graphics called animations (simple moving text or complicated interactive features).


    5.  One type of interactive features is Adobe Flash.


    6. Flash movies can be inserted as a part of the page or encompass the entire screen. One effect available though Flash is morphing. Morphing is a special effect in which one shape seems to transform into another.




    Web Authoring Programs (Web page Editors and HTML)
    •  to create sophisticated commercial sites. 
    • provide support for Web site design and HTML coding. 
     Some Web authoring programs bill themselves as WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editors, to indicate that you can build a page without interacting directly with HTML code.


    WYSIWYG editor preview the page describes by HTML code.


    Widely used Web authoring programs:
    • ADOBE DREAMWEAVER
    • NETOBJECTS FUSION
    • MICROSOFT EXPRESSION


    Adobe Dreamweaver


    NetObjects Fusion




    Microsoft Expression




    Adobe Dreamweaver and the Flora Photographs Web site


    Thinking about creating your own website? Feel free to visit www.computing2010.com and enter the keyword tips.


    or you can just watch this videos..:)


     

     





    Artificial Intelligence


    • Attempts to stimulate human senses, thought processes and actions
    • Designed to help people and organizations become more productive
    Virtual Reality


    • Artificial or simulated reality
    • Generated in 3D by a computer
    • Commonly known as VR, artificial reality or virtual environments

    Knowledge Based (Expert) Systems
    • Artificial intelligence that uses a database for assistance
    • Databse is known as a knowledge base
    • Many use "fuzzy logic".

    Robotics 
    • The field of study concerned with using robots
    • Robots are computer-controlled machines.


    Four Types of robots

    1) Percepion system robots





    2)Industrial Robots


    3)Mobile Robots


    4)Household Robots




    No comments:

    Post a Comment