What is communication technology?
1. Communication Technology gives students a better perspective on technology
and its nature. It also shows students how to use and apply many of the programs out
there. The students learn the impact of technology on themselves and on society. One of
the main focuses in this course is the application of artistic perspective and thinking to
the projects created. This course encourages the use of imagination due to the fact that
technology has made it so easy to express it through a visual means. There are many
different fields that this course introduces us to, leaving us to make the decision on which
path we would like to venture down. One of the first areas we explore is Photoshop. This
program makes it easy to create a work of art digitally with the use of many tools at the
click of a button. Not only can it be used to create but it can also be used as a means of
editing pictures that have already been created in the past as well as photographs. The
next program we are introduced to is flash. In this program we are shown the art of 2-D
animation. In this program you tell a story using many drawings that will depict time and
motion once it is played. It is played like a flipbook, all of the images are separate but
played at a quick speed and drawn properly will give it life. The next thing we learnt how
to do was how to create a proper website. We where shown how to link everything
together, create ads and basically customize the page to give it our own little touch. The
last thing we learnt was video editing. This is my personal favorite area due to the fact
that it lets you expand your imagination realistically and it also pieces everything
together. First you start by storyboarding, which is the process of creating the story and
visually giving an example of how you want it to look by drawing it out in quick
sketches. The next step is getting the footage, you find all the necessities and then you
film what you need until you have the perfect shot. Once you have your clips you bring
them into an editing program and begin piecing everything together and editing them by
giving them special effects, cutting them or changing the speed. Finally you make sure
the sound, works with the footage and then you export it making it your very own scene
or movie. Communication technology is definitely a great course to take if a future in any
technical arts interests you.
2. Vector vs. Bitmap (raster) Graphics
1. All the shapes within vector images are represented as mathematical formulas
2. The image is composed of a pattern of dots
3. Vector graphics are more flexible than bitmapped graphics because they look
the same even when you shrink or enlarge (scale) them to different sizes. In contrast,
bitmapped graphics become jagged when you scale them. Vector images also look better
on devices (monitors and printers) with higher resolution, whereas bitmapped images
always appear the same regardless of a device's resolution. And finally, vector images
often require less memory than bitmapped images.
4. First, bitmapped images are better than vectors at providing the photo realism
of an original scene. That's why digital images that are either created from scanned
analog photographs or captured by digital cameras are stored as bitmapped images.
Secondly, bitmapped images are supported by web browsers, whereas vector images are
not.
5. Programs that enable you to create and manipulate vector graphics are called
draw programs, whereas programs that create or manipulate bitmapped images are called
paint programs.
GIF vs JPEG
1. GIF's compression is called "lossless" literally meaning "doesn't lose quality"
when compressed. JPG employs "lossy" compression which literally means
the image "loses" quality during the compression process.
2. The GIF format only supports a palette with 256 colors while JPG's palette
supports 16 million colors.
JPEG vs TIF
1. TiF’s are larger sized files.
2. Generally the same
TIF vs PNG
1. PNG uses a more efficient compression algorithm than GIF, is patent-free and
supports true color images.
2. While support for PNG images in browsers has been low in the past, they can
now be safely used in all modern browsers
3. TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) is the most widely supported graphics file
format for printing. Although TIFF is not suitable for viewing in Web
browsers, it has other strengths: it is a highly flexible format which is
supported by numerous image processing applications. TIFF was designed to
be independent of the hardware platform and the operating system on which it
executes.
4. PNG or TIFF cannot really substitute RAW files for later manipulation.
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