Painting Tools

#To draw a free-form line

1. Click the pencil button and click a colour that you would like from the colour box.

to draw a line click the left button on your mouse and drag the mouse in the direction you would like.

#To erase a small area
1. Click in the tool box.

2. To use a smaller or larger eraser, click a shape at the bottom of the tool box.

3. The selected background color shows what color the eraser will leave behind. To change the background color, click a color by using the right mouse button.

4. Drag the mouse pointer over the area you want to erase.

Tip:

To change a specific color (and nothing else), change the foreground color to the color you want to erase and the background color to the color you want to replace it with. Click the eraser, and then use the right mouse button to change the color.

#To create an airbrush effect
1. Click in the tool box.

2. To change the size of the spray area, click a size from the bottom of the tool box.

3. To choose the spray color, click a color.

4. To spray, drag the mouse pointer. Use the left mouse button to spray with the foreground color, or use the right mouse button to spray with the background color.

#To create custom colors

1. In the color box, click the color you want to change.

2. On the Options menu, click Edit Colors.

3. Click Define Custom Colors, and then enter new values in either the RGB (red, green, blue) or HLS (hue, saturation, and luminescence) color models.

4. Click Add to Custom Colors.

-Tips

· To save custom colors=

1 click the Options menu

2 click Save Colors

· To use your saved colors, click Get Colors.

· For Help on an item, click at the top of the dialog box, and then click the item.

#To use black and white instead of color
1. On the Image menu, click Attributes.

2. Click Black and White.
Caution: Once you have changed a color picture to black and white, you cannot change it back to color. If you change back to color, only new work will be in color

#To invert all the colors in a picture
On the Image menu, click Invert Colors.
Note: Each color is replaced by its color complement. For example, white becomes black, and red becomes blue.

#To undo changes
1. On the Edit menu, click Undo.

2 To undo previous changes, click Undo again.

Eight of Clubs

Recreate this image of the eight of clubs using Paint. You will need to employ several techniques including; COPY, PASTE, FLIP/ROTATE, RESIZE, SELECT (TRANSPARENCY ON), IMAGE ATTRIBUTES (image should be 10x6cm)




Save your image as a 24-bit bitmap and then save it again as a monochrome bitmap.

Use Windows Explorer or My Computer to determine the file size for each file type.


Monochrome bitmap: 10.3 KB (10,622 bytes)
24-bit bitmap: 232 KB (237,654 bytes)

Why do you think there is a difference in the file size?
because monochrome is only using one colour in different shades while the 24bit picture. 24bit contains about more than 16 million colours in the picture while monochrome only has 2, black and white.

Is "Digital Art" real art?

A discussion point. “Is digital art a valid form of art?”

Well in my opinion i think digital art is a type of art. Digital art is actually harder if using basic tools on the electronic device. I mean art could be copied and replaced while if on the electronic device it wouldn't be mistaken from the artist themselves. Also isn't a photograph a piece of art? it is to most artists who are the professional person who makes these masterpieces.

What are some of the advantages that digital paint and draw programs offer over the traditional methods (canvas and paint).

Canvas and paint you can curve the paintbrush in the direction that you want it to go. but then you cannot erase it, and make perfect circles and stars and other shapes and them in different sizes. and also they can change the colour if they did not like the colour that they chose before.

What skills must a digital artist possess to create great digital art? either great angle of the object or a great imaginary mind.

Digital Media

Digital is a word we hear a lot lately. Its seems that everything is going digital…whatever that means! In this task we are going to examine exactly what is meant by digital media. All your findings should be recorded in your blog under a post heading of “Digital media”.

Use the site below as a starting point for your research;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_media#Digital_and_analog_data

1. First off let see if we can list how many forms of digital media surround us.

-Cellphones/mobile phones
-Compact disc
-Digital video
-Digital television
-e-book
-Internet
-Minidisc
-Video game
-World Wide Web

2. What number system is digital data based on? What two digits are used to code all digital data?

Today, computing is primarily based on the binary numeral system. In this case digital refers to the discrete states of "0" and "1" for representing arbitrary data.

3. What is a bit? What is a byte?

The terms bit and byte are common in computer networking. Both terms refer to digital data transmitted over a network connection. For example, bits and bytes both may represent network addresses or port numbers.A bit is a single numeric value, either '1' or '0', that encodes a single unit of digital information. A byte is a sequence of bits; usually eight bits equal one byte.

4. What is “sampling rate”? Find an image that explains how sampling works

The transformation of an Analog signal to Digital information via an Analog-to-digital converter is called sampling. According to information theory, sampling is a reduction of information

5. How does Colour Depth or bit depth effect the appearance of an image?

As our culture becomes increasingly digitized, digital artists are leading the way in exploring and defining this new culture. Digital Artists use a medium that is nearly immaterial, that being binary information which describes the color and brightness of each individual pixel on a computer screen. Taken as a whole an image consisting of pure light is the feedback devise that tells an artist what is being made and simultaneously stored on the computer's hard drive

6. Colour depth effects both still and video digital media. Sampling rate only effects video but not still media. Can you explain.

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