Painting Tools

  All the tools and effects on paint allow you to create or add colours or special effects to a picture.


Tool Bar allows you to draw,fill in a space,
add text, erase and magnify



                                                   


The text tool allows you to insert
text into a picture

                           






Allows you to draw a free form line with
the selected line width allowable

 

The eraser allows you to erase part of a picture and replace it with the background colour





The fill tool allows you to fill in a shape

with a specific colour.











The colour picker allows you to pick a colour from
 the picture and use it for drawing

 

The magnifier tool allows you to change the
 magnification for a part of a picture



Draw vs Paint

Drawing  programs create images composed of objects(e.g. squares, circles, triangles). The objects can have properties such as colour. These objects can easily be edited (e.g. change position and rearange them). Drawing programs are created through vector files.

Paint programs create images pixel by pixel. They can't be easily edited, the only way do to this is to edit individual parts. The files they create aren called bitmat files.

Drawing prorams include:
- Word
-Inkscape
-Microsoft Paint
-Photoshop

Graphic Terms

Animated Gif(Graphic Interchange Format): A single graphic file that contains a series of images which are displayed sequentially to give the illusion of movement or change over time.

jpeg (Joint photographic Experts Group): A file format commonly used for image compression; An image file in that format
Pixel: the smallest discrete component of an image or picture on a CRT screen 
Flip: Turn upside down or throw as to reverse

bmp: is an image file format used to store bitmap digital images
Video card:A piece of hardware installed into a personal computer to allow it to send video signals to an external output device Crop: when you remove part of the image. This may involve cutting some of the image from the left, right, top, bottom, or any combination. Mirror: a way to provide an alternate way to access files when the main server is being used elsewhere.

Fps: The speed at which still images (frames) in a video or animation are played in succession by an imaging device
Frame: where the pages are broken up into various areas

Morph: cause to change shape in a computer animation
Cpu(Central processing unit):the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing

Dpi(Dots per inch):Resolution that varies across media

Resolution:measures how fine a printer can print.The higher the resolution, the more that can be displayed on the screen.

File Extension: is the suffix at the end of a filename that indicates what type of file it is
Compression: is particularly useful in communications because it enables devices to transmit or store the same amount of data in fewer bits

Frame Buffer: The portion of memory reserved for holding the complete bit-mapped image that is sent to the monitor.

Colour Depth:The number of distinct colors that can be represented by a piece of hardware or software.