Computer Software: Specialized Applications

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Computer Software Specialized Applications
Reading Assignment Chapter 6 of Text

• Sohaib A Khan
• CS101 Wk 7 Lec 1

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Computers and Creativity

• Computers are an unparalleled tool for creative
  expression
• Sketch and paint
• Touch up photographs
• Design an automobile
• Create animated cartoons
• Create virtual worlds, with people and animals
• Edit a film
• Layout a magazine or a poster
• Record an edit a lecture or a news broadcast
• Create a multimedia encyclopedia (with movies,
  sounds, pictures and text)

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Photo Manipulation and Image Editing Software

• Can touch up photographs
• Move objects around in a photograph
• Combine photographs into one
• Incorporate text
• Edit image properties (brightness/contrast)

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Common Image File Formats

• Native file formats Specific to image-editing
  programs
• Common formats for photographs
• BMP
• TIFF
• Compressed formats
• JPEG
• GIF

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Video Editing Software

• For example Adobe Premiere
• Allows you to merge multiple videos, generate
  special effects, transitions, filters, sound
  manipulation etc.

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Page Layout Software

• For example, MS-Publisher, Adobe Pagemaker
• Desktop Publishing Using personal computers to
  layout publications

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Mathematical Software

• Examples Maple, Mathematica, MATLAB
• Makes complex mathematical tasks, like
  integration, differentiation, solving complex
  equations easy
• Very useful for research, analysis, visualization

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Other types of software

• Compression
• WinZIP, 7ZIP
• Antivirus
• McAfee
• AutoCAD software
• Speech Synthesis Software