Session 1: Flash Basics and Image Capture
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Description of Material Covered in Session 1
Reading:
- Hour One - pp. 3-32 (no assignment to turn in)
Mini-Lecture:
In- Class Exercise 1: South Park Studio
- Create a character of yourself at South Park Studio
- Capture the window (press ALT-PrintScreen) [Mac: Cmd-Shift-3]
- Launch PhotoShop
- Windows: Create a new document (press CTRL-N) and paste the clipboard (press CTRL-V)
Mac: Open the capture file on your desktop (named "Picture 1" or something similar) - Select the crop tool (press C)
- Drag a box around the square that contains your image,
then fine-tune by dragging the tiny boxes at the corners of the selected area. - Double-click inside the selection to crop
[If you need to undo and try again, press CTRL-Z] - On the File menu, select "Save as," then on the "Save as type" dropdown menu select "JPEG"
- Name the file, save it
Example:
- Image by Kendra Jackson
In-Class Exercise 2: Looking Critically at Web Pages
- Headphones – someone will need a pair of to listen for sound
- Split into four groups
- Open the site for your group
A. Hickory
Online
B. Oceanside
C. Wilhelm Imaging
Research
D. Amp
- Consider questions 3 & 4 particularly
- What information does it convey? (purpose, scope, audience, credibility)
- What can it do, technically? (interaction, media, control)
- In what ways is it easy and hard to use? (navigation, access)
- How does it look? (color, fonts, layout)
- Compare with this site
- Web site review is the first major assignment
- The four questions reflect our web site evaluation areas
- Content
- Functionality
- Ease of use
- Aesthetics
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lschilli. (2007, October 18). Session 1: Flash Basics and Image Capture. Retrieved May 16, 2012, from Notre Dame OpenCourseWare Web site: http://ocw.nd.edu/computer-applications/applied-multimedia-technology/sessions/session-1-image-capture-and-project-work.
