IMAGE-EDITING SOFTWARE
PhotoDraw

CREATING A PICTURE

• Inserting an Image (From File, ClipArt)

• Creating an Original Image (Text Images, Shape Images)

SELECTING AND ZOOMING

• Fit Background to Picture

MODIFYING IMAGES

• Resizing (handle), Rotating (handle) and Flipping (arrange)

• Crop Size

• Special Effects - Paint, Fill Outline, Touch Up (brightness), Distortion and Effects (transparency))

• Web Effects - Animated GIFs, Rollovers and Thumbnails

• Save Send

• *Aligning, Ordering and Grouping

SAVING IMAGES (TIF, BMP, GIF, JPG, PNG, bitmaps made of pixels)

• GIF Image (Graphics Interchange Format, 256 colors, rectangular w/ transparencey,  for ClipArt)

• JPEG Image (Joint Photographic Experts Group, 16 million colors, no transparency, for photographs, can compress)

• PNG Image (Portable Network Graphics, future use, all of the above)

MENU ITEMS

• File-New, Save for use in..

• View-Fit Background to Picture

• Insert-ClipArt, From file

• Effects-Shadow, Transparency

• Arrange-Group, Resize, Order, Rotate, Flip

NOTE:

Students should be able to: Import and create images, Modify images (transparency, crop, do special effects, make animated gifs, rollovers and thumbnails) and Save in the best possible format.

Students should realize that one (1) web page should be less than 60K which equals about 30 seconds of download time.

Students should know that the usual browser screen is 640 X 480 pixels.