Lab Task 6

Date: 9 February 2010
Venue: MTGM
Report/Result:

Shinny Floor Text Effects:
Cliff Text Effects:
Radioactive Text Effects:

Lab Task 4:

Date: 2 February 2010
Venue: MTGM
Report/Result:

This is what I learned in the Multimedia Lab.

Lab Task 8: Brushes And Pattern

Date: 23th March 2010
Venue: MTGM
Report:

Making Wallpaper Using Brushes and Pattern.

Procedure:

1. Make a new canvas 16oo x 12oo pixels.
2. Then, fill the background with fill bucket tools and chose the colour #000000 that is black.
3. Create a new layer, by pressing CTRL + SHIFT+ N.
4. Then chose brush tools, I use grass brushes that is already in photoshop to make the grassy ground. In order to make it more real I downloaded some grass brushes and use it in the layer.
5. Another layer was created to put the tree by using tree brushes.
6. Next, I created another layer for putting stars at the sky
7. Create another layer to put the moon in the layer by using the moon brushes.
8. Then, make a new layer to put on some cloud behind the moon so its look like more dramatic.
9.Then, I put a woman figure that holding an umbrella by using brushes.
10.Finally, for the final touch, I create a new layer so I can put some text that is RADIANT GARDEN, NIGHT OF STARRY SKY.

Assignment 3 - Authoring Tools

Assignment 3

1) What is authoring

"AUTHORING" here refers to "programming by non-programmers." This site is a resource
collection of pointers to Internet sites for those that develop or "author" multimedia.

In multimedia, authoring method is by using authoring tools. Authoring tools also known as
authorware, a program that helps you write hypertext or multimedia applications. Authoring
tools usually enable you to create a final application merely by linking together objects, such as a paragraph of text, an illustration, or a song. By defining the objects' relationships to each other, and by sequencing them in an appropriate order, authors (those who use authoring tools) can produce attractive and useful graphics applications. Most authoring systems also support a scripting language for more sophisticated applications. The distinction between authoring tools and programming tools is not clear-cut. Typically, though, authoring tools require less technical knowledge to master and are used exclusively for applications that present a mixture of textual, graphical, and audio data.

Resources:
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/authoring/
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/A/authoring_tool.html

2) Type Of Authoring Tool

Time-line Based Tools: These tools use a reel of film on which multimedia content is organized along different tracks Adobe’s Director and Flash are two popularly used time-line based tools.Running concurrent media is easier in time-line based tools.

Flow Control or Icon based Tools: These tools let you drag and drop icons into a page and then help you link multimedia activity by double clicking the icons through dialog boxes. These tools are expensive and are used for interactive public kiosks etc. Examples of these tools are Macromedia's Authorware or AimTech's IconAuthor

Resources:
http://techgroup.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a011018167f76860f0123f171b6ff860f.html

3) Hardware/Software for Authoring Tools

Hardware:
1.Scanners
Scanners are used to convert conventional images, texts, drawings and photos into digital form that can be understood by the computer.

2.Video Camera
Analog video camera and digital video camera (DV). An analog video camera records video in analog signals on a magnetic video tape. A digital video camera records video in digital signals, which can be stored in various forms of media, such as digital video tape or memory cards.

3.Camera
An ordinary camera , images are captured on a roll of film. In a digital camera , images are captured and stored in a media card.

4.Audio Devices

Are needed to record analog sound. The sounds are then changed into digital sound.

5.Video capture devices

Video capture devices help to convert analog video to digital video. The fire wire helps to transfer the video from video camera to the computer. They also transfer digital video to the computer so that the data can be edited or stored.

Resources:
http://www.slideshare.net/shimamohd/hardware-editing-software-authoring-tools

Software:

1. Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop, or simply Photoshop, is a graphics editing program developed and published by Adobe Systems. It is the current market leader for commercial bitmap and image manipulation software, and is the flagship product of Adobe Systems. It has been described as "an industry standard for graphics professionals" and was one of the early "killer applications" on the Macintosh, later also for MS Windows.

Adobe's 2005 "Creative Suite" rebranding led to Adobe Photoshop 8's renaming to Adobe Photoshop CS. Thus, Adobe Photoshop CS4 is the 11th major release of Adobe Photoshop. The CS rebranding also resulted in Adobe offering numerous software packages containing multiple Adobe programs for a reduced price. Adobe Photoshop is included in most of Adobe's Creative Suite offerings.

Photoshop's popularity, combined with its high retail price, makes Photoshop's piracy rate relatively high. Adobe countered by including SafeCast DRM starting with Adobe Photoshop CS.

Resources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Photoshop

2. Sony Sound Forge
Sony Sound Forge (formerly known as Sonic Foundry Sound Forge) is a digital audio editing suite by Sony Creative Software which is aimed at the professional and semi-professional markets.

A limited version sold as Sound Forge Audio Studio provides an inexpensive entry-level
digital audio editor; it was formerly known as Sonic Foundry's Sound Forge LE.

By 2003, Sonic Foundry, the parent company of Sound Forge faced losses and tough competition from much larger companies and as a result, agreed to sell its desktop audio and music production product family to Sony Pictures Digital for $18 million. The software initially had Windows 3.x support, but after version 3.0 all 16-bit support was dropped. Additionally, Windows 95 support was dropped after Sound Forge 5.0.

Resources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_Forge

3. Autodesk Maya
Autodesk Maya, or simply Maya (Sanskrit word for "illusion"), is a high-end 3D computer graphics and 3D modeling and 3D animation software package originally developed by Alias Systems Corporation, but now owned by Autodesk as part of the Media and Entertainment division. Autodesk acquired the software in October 2005 upon purchasing Alias. Maya is used in the film and TV industry, as well as for computer and video games, architectural visualisation and design.

In 2003, Maya (then owned by AliasWavefront) won an Academy Award "for scientific and technical achievement", citing use "on nearly every feature using 3-D computer-generated images."

Resources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autodesk_Maya

Multimedia Lab Task 4

Date: 2 February 2010

Venue: MTGM

Result/Report:

The reason I chose to make this poster is to express how beatiful and the variety of emotion and feelings that we can fell in music.

In this poster I chose one of the most popular japanese animation in music, K-ON.

This is poster that I produced:

Music, Colour Of Life

These are the steps I used too make this poster:

Making Colourful Background:

1. First off, let's start by creating a new document and applying the oh-so-obligatory clouds (Filter > Render > Clouds).
2. Now that we have our base to work with, apply Mezzotint (Filter > Pixelate > Mezzotint) with type "Long Strokes."
3. Doesn't look like much right now, but with the magic of motion blur (Filter > Blur > Motion Blur), with an angle of 90 degrees and a distance of 999 for the settings, everything will be better.
4. Now add a new layer and overlay some color over it. Here I chose the Rainbow Gradient using the Gradient Tool (G), but you can choose whatever suits you. When you have a layer of color, set the layer mode to Overlay.
5. If you feel like being creative, you can tweak some more by changing the curves (Ctrl + M) to make the image either brighter or gloomier depending on the mood.
6. Now create a new layer. Then select the Marquee Tool (M), set it to elliptical, and the Feather to 30, and select around the picture (use the example below for reference). Then select inverse (Ctrl + Shift + I), and fill (Edit > Fill) with black. Then change the Opacity to 75% so that it is a bit more subtle.
7. Again create a new layer, and with the same Marquee tool settings as above, select (use the example below as reference). Then change the curve (Ctrl + M) to something like in the example. Afterward, change the Opacity to 60% so that it isn't blinding. Try to be creative and change the settings to your taste.
8. Now we are done with the background. Save the layer, eg: Background.psd
   

Cropping The Girl's Band Image:

1. Open or drag the image into Adobe Photoshop
2. Choose the Rectangular Marque Tool at the task box
3. Then drag the image that we wanted by using the marque tool
4. Copy the chosen image (Ctrl + C)
   
5. Choose the background tab and paste it (Ctrl + V)
6. The copy image will be label as Layer 2
   
7. Next, I use the magnetic lasso tool to mark all the point of the area that I wanted to keep and make sure the point was both the first and the last joint was together.
8. Next press Ctrl + Shift +I, to inverse the mark area.
   
9. Then using the Magic Wand, choose and erase the unwanted area.
10. We can use the eraser to erase some unwanted image that can't be erase by magic wand

Image Resources:

http://www.tbs.co.jp/anime/k-on/

Finishing The Poster:

1. In this phase, firstly, adjust the image the image that I cropped earlier according to the suitability of the image.
2. Next, by using the burn tool ( press O) apply the tool around all the edge of the image so it look more darker on every edge of the image of the Layer 2
3. On the Layer 2, press the right click on the mouse and chose blending options.
4. Then chose drop shadows.
5. In this poster I applied some border such as:
6. In this poster, I applied two of the border and put it opposite to each other. One the border, I change the colour by Image > Adjustment > Hue and Saturation.
7. Finally, I applied another border that surround the image and by using blending options, I use Gradient overlay to change the colour of the border.
8. That's all from me......Enjoy.

Multimedia Lab Activities 3:

Date: 26th January 2o1o.
Venue: MTGM.
Result/Report:
In this banner, I'll use a picture as a background. The font that I use is called 'Kingdom Heart' font.

Multimedia Labs Activities 2:

Date: 19th January 2o1o.
Venue: MTGM.
Result/Report:

This is the result in the lab. In this lab, I combine all the fruit and the veggie to form this chef. I downloaded the background the border and used it in this picture. Well, hope you like it.
Thanks.........