Images and Scanners

Scanning an Image

Cleaning up a Digital Image

There are many ways to clean up an image before using them in the web page. This exercise will only give the student enough material to get the basic ideas and concepts down. The Internet has several shareware packages that can be used for image processing, conversion from one file format to another, slide shows for viewing large photo libraries files, and for creating the equivalent of contact sheets or photo albums.

The list of well known packages includes:

Converting the Digital image to a GIF or JPEG Format

Creating a Photo Album

Hints for Using Images in HTML pages

The Assignment

Using a variety of graphic and image sources such as a digital camera, a scanned photo or film, a Photo CD picture or a graphic you created using a paint program, or a CGM, TIFF, JPEG file captured from the net, create a web page. Use a variety of ways to arrange the images on the page including tables with and without borders. Show how to control of the flow of the text yields a more visually interesting page.
Scan a series of photos into the data base. With these images create a Table of Partial Results showing the results at different steps in experimenting with a variety of tools or plug-ins of Photoshop or similar package. The experiments should lead to a higher quality or more interesting image. At a minimum, show the results of cropping, compositing, sharpening, change of background, etc.
Create a graphic with a paint program such a SuperPaint, Illustrator, Freehand, or a CAD program such as AutoCAD. Convert the results to a GIF or a JPEG file. What is the difference between the original graphic and the converted image? Which is the larger file?
What rules are useful to keep in mind when using Images as backgrounds. From the net, capture and experiment with interesting images and use different text colors to create a set of Web pages that obey your rules and some that do not? How sound were your rules.
Create a series of transparent images. Transparent Gifs
Create a series of interlaced images.
Create a 3d Button Using Photoshop.

References

Farace Joe, The Photographer's Digital Studio, Peachpit Press, (1996)
Horenstein, Jonathan, Scanning: Your Personal Consultant, Ziff-Davis Press, (1995)

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