Graphics

Lecture
This week’s lecture was again taken by Daniel Cunliffe, and we were again covering topics of multimedia, this week we were going into more detail about graphics. The lecture started with covering the topics pixel depth and resolution, “Image resolution describes the detail an image holds. The term applies equally to digital images, film images, and other types of images. Higher resolution means more image detail.” Following this we went onto information about different graphic formats such as BMP and GIF. Finally we last topic we covered was colours, during this we talked about colour depth and different pallets such as the RGB pallet.

External Reading
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_resolution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_depth

Tutorial
This week’s tutorial was yet again a Photoshop one. We were again set the task of merging files to allow for the creation of a final document. To start we had to adjust the width and height a new file we had created, we then had to type some text and drag it onto our original document. Following this we had to download a file from blackboard and make the background of the new image to be exactly the same as the image we downloaded. Near the end we were set the task of creating some buttons by following instructions given in the hand out.

Reflection
I found this week’s lecture fairly interesting and what we were taught will help with the up and coming website coursework, allowing us to format images properly will be a great deal of help, also using the colour palette will allow us to match colours precisely. I found this week’s tutorial really boring, the work we are doing in the tutorials is still pretty easy, I’m looking forward to getting onto some more complex Photoshop work, or moving onto designing websites, as I enjoy working with Dreamweaver. The basic copy and paste and edit slightly tasks are getting a bit tedious.