Session 1: Flash Basics and Image Capture

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

A. My Scene Dolls

Web site review is the first major assignment

The four questions reflect our web site evaluation areas

Content
Functionality
Ease of use
Aesthetics

Citation: lschilli. (2007, October 18). Session 1: Flash Basics and Image Capture. Retrieved May 20, 2012, from Notre Dame OpenCourseWare Web site: http://ocw.nd.edu/computer-applications/applied-multimedia-technology/sessions/session-1-image-capture-and-project-work.