INTRODUCTION TO TOOLS

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• INTRODUCTION TO TOOLS
• http//newmedia.leeds.ac.uk

Tutor Catherine Stones
Room Level 5, RS 5.19
Email c.m.stones_at_leeds.ac.uk
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Questions about the brief?

• The Problem?
• Individual Components?
• Presentation Portfolio?

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Tools

• Paper Sketch Books
• Storage Media CD Roms, FlashDrives
• Tools Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Freehand,
  Macromedia Flash
• Materials Text, Images, Shapes, Colours,
  Composition

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Tool Types

• PhotoshopGood For Image Manipulation, Special
  Effects, Textures Transparencies.Poor For
  large amounts of text, drawing.
• FreehandGood For text handling, drawing,
  composition.Poor For image manipulation.
• FlashGood For drawing, animation,
  interactivity/webPoor For Print-Work, Image
  Manipulation

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Working in Photoshop

• Getting used to working environment
• Layers, selections,colour changing,
  transformations
• Materials Textures at
• http//porter.csres.utexas.edu/album/Textures/imag
  es.html
• Working Context Combining textures

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Textures in Motion

• You have an hour to create a montage of textures
  which reflects the term motion. The canvas
  should be 400x400 in size and 72 dpi.
• Think particularly about the scale of the images
  and direction within them. You can use image cut
  outs, flip them, rescale and crop them. You
  should feature the word motion in your
  composition, in Arial typeface.
• Of course, as youre doing this youll learn
  about layers, copying and pasting etc.

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Saving and Sharing

• Bring your work with you to the seminar on
  Mondaysave to CD Rom, floppy disc or save on
  computer in a folder with your initials on it
  (note which computer you used)