Chapter 4 : Images

1. Image File Types Used in Multimedia

1.1. Macintosh formats

1.2. Windows formats

1.3. Cross-platform formats

2. Colors and Palettes in Multimedia

2.1. Understanding natural light and color

2.1.1. 1)Addictive color

2.1.2. 2)Subtractive color

2.1.3. 3)Color models

2.2. Color palettes

2.3. Dithering

3. Bitmap Software

3.1. Adobe's Photoshop and Illustrator

3.2. Corel's Painter and CorelDraw

4. Making Still Images (2 ways to generate)

4.1. Bitmaps (raster)

4.2. Vector-drawn graphics

5. 3-D drawing and rendering

5.1. 3-D animation tools

5.2. Features of a 3-D application

5.3. Panoramas

5.4. Tools include:

5.4.1. 1)Daz3D

5.4.2. 2)Form*Z

5.4.3. 3)NewTek's Lightwave

5.4.4. 4)Autodesk's Maya

5.4.5. 5)Trimble's SketchUp

6. Vector-drawn graphics

6.1. Applications of vector-drawn object

6.2. How vector-drawn images work

6.3. Vector-drawn images versus bitmaps