Adobe Director Lab#2. Creating cast members. • Specify how to store the cast: 1.
Internal Stores the cast within the movie file. 2. External Stores the cast in a ...
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You will learn in this lab: • How to use the three most important windows in Adobe® Director®: the Score, the Stage, and the Cast windows. • Stage properties. • Score properties. • Create, edit and manage frames
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Creating cast members • In the Cast window, click the Cast button and select New Cast from the menu.
• In the New Cast dialog box, type a name for the new cast.
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Creating cast members • Specify how to store the cast: 1. Internal Stores the cast within the movie file. 2. External Stores the cast in a separate file outside the movie file. • Click Create.
Adobe Director Creating text cast members in the Text window • Select Insert > Media Element > Text. • Enter text in the Text window. • Select size and font.
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Exercise • Create 2 groups of cast members ( external and internal ) • For the internal cast add three members: 1. Text ( Hello): size 40, green color, Tahoma font. 2. Text (Everyone): size 30, blue color, Tahoma font. 3. Text (Enjoy your day): size 50, red color, Arial font. • For external cast add three members: 1. Blue circle as vector shape. 2. Green circle as vector shape. 3. Red circle as bitmap element.
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Using the score • The Score provides a view of the movie’s timeline. • The Score organizes and controls a movie’s content over time in rows called channels • The columns of the Score contain frames. A frame in a movie represents a single point in time. Frame numbers are listed above the columns in the Score.
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Using the score the channels in the score window are as follows: • Tempo channel: Tempo is the number of frames per second that Director tries to play. You can control tempo by using the Score tempo channel. Director tempo settings control the maximum speed at which the playhead moves from frame to frame. • The palette channel in the Score determines which palette is active for a particular frame in a movie. • Transition channel: a transition always takes place between the end of the current frame and the beginning of the frame where the transition is set.
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Using the score Others channels in the score Are: sound channels, behavior channels and sprite channels. tempo channel pallet channel transition channel sound channels behavior channels
sprite channels
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Using the stage • The Stage is the part of a movie that your users will see. You use the Stage to determine where media elements (cast members) should appear onscreen. • The Stage includes an offstage canvas area within the Stage window but outside of the active movie area. This canvas area is useful for assembling your sprites, either before or after they appear on the Stage. • To place the sprites in the stage, simply drag the cast member to the position on the stage and a copy of that member will be created.
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Exercise • Set the score to 40 fps • Make this scenario: 1. In the first 5 frames show text(Hello) and the green circle 2. In frames between 5 to 30 show text(Everyone) and the blue circle. In this period the green circle must be appear and disappear in a sequential manner. 3. In frames between 30 to 60 show text(Enjoy your day) and the red circle. And in this period the red circle will disappear in frame 40 and appear again in frame 41 to the end of the movie.
Adobe Director Exercise • Change the fps to 10.
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Image Editing features using Photoshop Lab#3 •
An image can be realistically manipulated using Photoshop. This involves learning how to select specific areas of the image, and using the various Photoshop tools.
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To edit an image in Photoshop, it needs to be in a digitized format. A digital image is a numeric representation (normally binary) of a two-dimensional image.
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Since images may be used to give a visual explanation or to illustrate an idea, then they can be altered to: – – – –
Focus on a particular object in the image. Group several images together. Add a description to an image. Duplicate or modify an image.
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The quality of scanned images can often be improved by: – Adjusting the brightness and color balance. – Fix a scratch on the picture. – Remove an object. – Change color of an object. – Resize the image.
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The toolbox: – Toolbox let user select, paint, edit, and view images. – Toolbox contains all the basic tools used in Photoshop to edit and modify the image.
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Clone Stamp: This tool allows user to copy any area of the image to another part of the image. The Size of the brush can control the size of the copied area.
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Cropping: Photoshop has a cropping tool that can select a part of the picture and remove the rest – Cropping cuts parts of a picture off in order to reduce the overall size. – Cropping can help user focus on certain parts of a picture by eliminating the rest. – Thus it can be used to remove unwanted parts.
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Filters: Filters are used to change the appearance of an image. Photoshop has several filters that can create a variety of backgrounds.
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History Palette: The History palette enable user to return to any previous version of the image. Every action and change to the image is listed to the history palette. User can select any action, and the image will revert back to that point.
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Image Resizing: – To edit the image to an appropriate resolution and size for display, user must use Photoshop’s tools for cropping and resizing images. – When editing and preparing images for display it is important to consider the following: • The medium over which the image will be transmitted. Is the image for print? • Will the image be used on a web page? Or maybe it is for a PowerPoint presentation. Each of these media requires that user adjusts the size and resolution of the image appropriately.
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In addition to height and width features that are refers to the size of the image, resolution is just as important. Resolution refers to the number of dots per inch that appear in the images.
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A high resolution image: looks very smooth and shows virtually no pixilation. A Low resolution image: may look far more pixilated.
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Image Editing features using Photoshop Lab#3 Photoshop has tools that allow user to improve the quality of scanned images by adjusting the brightness, contrast, and color of an image. •
Adjusting Brightness or Contrast: – Brightness refers to how much lighting is applied to an image. – Contrast refers to how much shadowing there is in an image.
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Adjusting Hue or Saturation: – Hue refers to what colors appear in an image. – Saturation refers to how strong or deep those colors are.
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Copy an Object: – User can duplicate an object in the image by simply copy-andpaste.
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Repair a Damaged Image: – If any area in the image has a scratch. Photoshop can be used to repair the image.
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Add text to an image: – Words can be added to an image. Words can used to add a description, a name, a label or title to an image.
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Working with Layers: – Photoshop automatically adds a new layer when a new items, such as text, are added to the image. Layers allow user to edit and position different parts of an image separately. The Layers palette displays all layers for a picture.
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