file format impact (D2)

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Evolving Output Mediums (D1)

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Evolving Output Mediums:

Monitors:

In the late 1980s CRT monitors were commonly used in the creation of graphical images. CRT monitors provided good colour depth for the creation of graphical images. A major disadvantage to the CRT monitor was the fact that they came in small sizes. This was an issue because bigger screen sizes allow for higher resolution image creation.

This issue was solved with the introduction of the LCD monitor. The LCD monitor allowed for a larger screen size and kept good colour depth. The LCD monitor is still used in many products such as laptops.

LCD monitors have been improved with IPS technology. This technology is useful in term of graphical design, because it allows for a strong viewing angle and it displays deeper colours correctly. This technology has improved the efficiency of graphical design

 

Printers:

Printers are a very important aspect of digital graphics, because it allows digital graphics to be into a physical graphic. Printers have been improving in the amount of dots per inch (DPI) ever since the first inkjet was released in 1998. A high DPI is vital for the best quality images, without a high DPI the images that a printer produces are of a poor quality.

Printers have also been evolving in term of their connectivity. Printers now come with Wi-Fi capabilities, this allows for wireless printing. Wireless printing is now an important part of most work places, and makes printing for employees a lot easier and less time consuming.

Printers have also started to included other technology such as scanners, this is particularly useful in terms of digital graphics because it allows a physical graphic to be converted to a digital graphic that can then be manipulated.

Phones:

Mobile phones are an example of an output medium for digital graphics that is rapidly evolving. Mobile phones have evolved from being limited to only making phone calls, to now being able to take 1080p videos and edit them. This is a quite a drastic leap considering how quickly this evolution happened.

Companies such adobe are now capitalising on how effective mobile phone are as an output medium, by realising apps such as “Photoshop express”, applications such as this provide mobile users with some of the features they would get from the PC versions of these products

Justification of software and hardware (M2)

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Justification for Graphical Image:

Software:

The software I used to create and manipulate my graphical image was Photoshop. I chose Photoshop because I am fairly familiar with its UI, and I fell that it has a greater number of tutorials if needed them. This software worked very well for me due to its use of a layering system that allowed me to manipulate different images easily and effectively.

Hardware:

Mouse and Keyboard

I chose to use these two tools because the UI for Photoshop is easy to navigate with the use of a mouse. Photoshop also includes a lot of keyboard shortcuts that allowed me to access tools and function such as transform, quickly and efficiently.

I didn't find any use for a graphics tablet due to the fact was not creating my own images from scratch

Resolution:

I chose to make my image 500x500. I picked this resolution to make a completely square graphical image. I also felt that this resolution would be sufficiently large enough so that the image would not have to be scaled up for viewing.

Colour depth:

I chose to use 24bit colour in my image because it generally considered a standard size. 24bit colour has provided my image with vibrant colours, that can be seen well even when scaled.

File format:

I chose to save my image in a JPEG format, because it is very good at producing a good quality image with a relatively small file size

 

 

Limitations of Different Hardware and Software: (M1)

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Hardware:

Name:	Limitations:
Mouse	In terms of graphic design the mouse isn’t a great piece of hardware in terms of making an image. This is because it is hard to control and doesn’t feel natural to draw an image with.   In comparison with a graphics tablet the mouse is very basic. With a mouse you have to select a specific opacity before drawing line, a graphics tablet allows you to decide this by registering pressure applied when drawing.   Drawing straight or curved lines is extremely difficult and that in turn forces you to use the tools provided in software.
Graphics tablet	The graphics tablet is specifically designed for graphic design and provides the user with much more freedom than the mouse in term of drawing.   Although when it comes to navigating menus it becomes much less effective than the mouse.   It also becomes a lot less usable in terms of using specific tools such as rotation and moving images.

Software:

 

Name:	Limitations
Photoshop	Photoshop is not as user friendly as other software such as gimp, this is due to its UI which is relatively difficult to modify in comparison to GIMP   Photoshop is limited to newer systems due to the 1GB of RAM required to run. Photoshop is also now available on some operating systems such as Linux   Photoshop also has a small variety of free effects in comparison to other software such as GIMP
Gimp	GIMP is limited to only being able to manipulate 8 bit images. This is a huge disadvantage because Photoshop is able to work with 8,16 and 32 bit images   The files that GIMP creates (XCF) cannot be opened in Photoshop, but Photoshop files can be opened in GIMP. This is a limitation to users who want to use both piece of software on a single project