Computer Graphics Tools This lecture and exercise focus on basic image and graphics capture, editing, storing and presentation. Focus is on image capture image and graphics editing image formats and properties 360 degree images (QTVR) and photo stitching CAPTURE Digital cameras (still, video) Scanners (photo, paper, objects) graphics tablet Computer generated graphics STORAGE Format (tiff, jpg, gif, png,...animated GIF, transparency,...) Storage requirements EDITING Bitmap (Adobe Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, ...) Vectorgraphics (Adobe Illustrator, Autocad, CorelDraw,...) QTVR and photostitching video edtiting PUBLICATION/PRESENTATION WWW (size adaption, format, 'click-on-thumbail', separatewindow look at source code, image -maps) WWW browser plugins (QuickTime) References Delivered material http://www.citu.lu.se/webtool/index04.html Web Tools. Images. Citu Lund University. http://www.gettingstarted.net/. Web and graphics. http://www.projectcool.com/developer/gzone/color/index.html. Web Graphics & Presentation: Web Color. http://www.projectcool.com/developer/gzone/optimizing/index.html. Web Graphics & Presentation: Optimizing Graphics. Further reading Multimedia: http://www.adobe.com/products/tips/photoshop.html. Adobe Photoshop tutorials http://www.macromedia.com http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/99/35/index1a.html?tw=frontdoor (graphics on the web) WWW: http://www.killersites.com/, Creating Killer Web Sites Online http://www.webcoder.com/, (javascript and dynamic html) http://www.webmonkey.com/, Webmonkey. http://help.unc.edu/documentation/ http://www.atiger.pp.se/sida.html Annica Tigers HTML-nybörjarguide http://www.davesite.com/webstation/html/ HTML An Interactive Tutorial for Beginners http://www.skolverket.se/skolnet/htmlkurs/ Skoldatanätets HTML-kurs http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/ A beginners guide to HTML (also PDF file) QTVR http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtvr/. Apple QuicTime VR. http://www.kaidan.com. Photographic VR solutions. http://www.fh-furtwangen.de/~dersch/. Panorama tools. http://www.panoramic.net/. panoramic Network. http://www.pinefarm.demon.co.uk/james/panoguide/. The Guide to Panoramas. http://www.vrtoolbox.com/VRtoolbox.html. The VR Worx (QTVR tools) Austin Brian, 1998, "WEB-Design for alle". IDG Forlag, Valby, Denamrk. (87 pp.) 48 DKK Steffensen Jan B., 1999, "Introduktion til HTML". IDG Forlag, Valby, Denamrk. (79 pp.) 48 DKK Alspach Ted, 1998, "Adobe Acrobat - for alle". IDG Forlag, Valby, Denamrk. (79 pp.) 48 DKK Knudsen Werner, 1997, "Internet for alle". IDG Forlag, Valby, Denamrk. (77 pp.) 48 DKK http://whatis.com. A useful on-line IT dictionary Questions (examples): Which are the cons and pros when using bitmapped respectively vector graphics? What do we mean with 2 raised to 8 color depth? Explain some of the graphics and multimedia file formats and when they may be used. How is an intercative QTVR image made and for what can it be used?