Hardware and software

Software needed to carry out manipulation of images includes photoshop, paint shop pro, cs3 fireworks.
Software needed to create a DVD, interactive file or perhaps a website includes director, dreamweaver.
Hardware includes, sound cards, graphic cards, scanners, digital camera's.

Image manipulation techniques include, compression (for use in websites etc) changing file types, scaleing an image, brightness, hue, contrast etc.

Revision

Text must be clear and easy to read. These two aspects are the rules you should always ask yourself when using text. Is the font you are using an accepted type in the field with which you are working. i.e you shouldnt use comic sans on a university lab submission etc. Be careful which colour you use also, like dont have red text with a green background and other obvious mixes.


bad example of text colour

Some notes!

Image manipulation....basic image manipulations include, reducing image quality to save memory (compression) editing brightness, remove red eye etc. Many different manipulation can be acheieved using digital image processing packages such as fireworks and photoshop. File types are extremely important and there are packages which can change a file type of an image to suit youre requirements.

Colour is important in relation to design. If a company goes to say a web designer and asks them to make a site dedicated to a certain product of theirs. The site must include colours that are associated with the company. This gives the user that will eventually be navigating through this site a sense of familierality with that company, maybe they have had a good experience with this company before hand and feels comfortable buying from then again. Many colours fit well together while many dont also. You must find a good pallette from which to work from, one which will be appealing to the user but at the same time be practical and relevent to the subject/website/poster/dvd etc.