Multimedia Tools

Image Fundamentals, Basic concepts of Images: Digital Images and Digital Image Representation Image Formats: TIFF, BMP, JPG/JPEG, GIF, PIC. PDF, PSD; Importance of file formats, Bitmap images and Vector graphics, Image Size and Resolution, Creating new images, Scanning, Import & Export, Setting up Resolution, Size, File formats of images; image preview, Bitmap, Gray Scale and color options

Basic Concepts: An Introduction, creating, Opening and saving files, Menus, Toolbox – working, option bar, Palettes and their types, Swatches, Style Selection: - Selection Tools, Selection Menu. Uses of various tools & importance of tools, toning tools, focus tools, Color control icons, Mode control icons, Window controls icons; creating new images, Image Handling: Cropping an image, adjusting image size, and increasing the size of the work canvas, saving an image, Default colors, foreground & background color.

Animation, various types of animation, Importance of 2d & 3d animation, Layer, Adding layers, dragging and pasting selections on to layers, dragging layers between files, viewing and hiding layers, Editing layers, rotating selections, scaling an object, preserving layers transparency, moving and copying layers, duplicating layers, deleting layers, merging layers, using adjustment layers, Palettes and Masks: showing and hiding Palettes, splitting Palettes in to separate image, creating a quick mask, editing masks using quick mask mode.

Painting and Editing: Brushes palette, brush shape, creating and deleting brushes, creating custom brushes, setting brush options, saving, loading and appending brushes, Options palette; Opacity, pressure, or exposure, paint fade-out rate, making selections, using selection tools, adjusting selections, softening the edges of a selection, hiding a selection border, moving and copying selections, extending and reducing selections, pasting and deleting selections, blending options, filters.

Sound: Recording Sound using Sound Recorder (Capture), Sound capture through sound editing software (ex: Sound forge), Importance of sound, Sound editing, Sound Recorder, MONO & Stereo Noise correction, Effect enhancement; Sound File Format: AIFF (Audio Input File Format from Apple Mac), MIDI, WAV, MP3, ASF, Sound quality:-Importing audio and saving audio from Audio CD.