Before we start this class, we watched a video that was about Flash, using Flash! Watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgwxXKsZhAo Its very cool!
View-magnification-fit window. That is how you make it fit the window.
Tween means in between.
We are all busy making our pool tables so that we can get Mr.Case to look at it. Once we have finished it, we
Export[choose version] choose flash 9.
Flash 7 and 8 are more compatible but choose Flash 9 for now.
Save as FLA if you want to work on it. Once your done, change it to Swift!
Turn your extra layers off.
Swift is playable anywhere.
Make sure to check out the video, its cool!
Peace!
- Peggy .
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Test Over With!
Hello. First period on a Wednesday, guess what we did? Write a big test on photoshop, hexadecimals and everything else we learned in this unit. It was a fairly easy test, except for a couple of questions which I was unsure of. But other than that, everything else wen great. I'm sure everyone else thought that the test was somewhat easy, too.!
We basically spent the whole period writing the test, so nothing very exciting happened today in class!
That's it for today.
Later days.
- Peggy .
We basically spent the whole period writing the test, so nothing very exciting happened today in class!
That's it for today.
Later days.
- Peggy .
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Learning something NEW !
There is only about 40 minutes left untill our long weekend starts! And I mean long. Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, you get to spend doing what ever you want. I am looking forwards to a great long weekend with my friends and family, but mostly friends! Although, this weekend can't be all fun fun fun, because a portion of it, I have to spend studying for the BTT test that will be taking place on Wednesday. As much as I want to leave it untill tuesday night, I have to study, because my marks depend on it! = But on the bright side, I have four days to spend how ever I'd like! Not to get too carried away, I still have to learn before I can have fun and go home. So here's everything Mr.Case will say in the next 30-45 minutes!! =]
FLA- flash project
FLV- flash video
SWF- Shock wave flash
Action script is a simply programming language. One of the biggest complaints for programmers is that its not that complex, therefore they couldn't make so many programs.
Time line is good for making videos.
Main space is called a stage. Make it 600x400 pixels, which is the most common.
When you are watching a video, you really see still pictures one after the other, very fast.
Movies have a slower frame rate, therefore it is different when you watch a movie in the movie theater.
You see 30 frames a second.
Videos on YouTube run 12 frames a second, which makes it more clear than if you see it on something else.
When you have a little box at the top, it means you have one frame[one picture in your video].
The amount of boxes shows you how many pictures you have.
If you want to add a video, you add a new layer, so you don't mess up your background.
Your top layer will automatically go to the right number of frames as the bottom layer.
Cue ball= a graphical image on the screen.
Grab your selection tool, and double click, and right click to turn it into a symbol. [graphic symbol]
The good thing about symbols is that it will have the same picture stored, but wont increase the size of your file.
When you make a symbol, it wont add much to the file size, because its using the image to make more of it.
In the old days, if you wanted to animate something, you would have to make it into a key frame. key frame= when something happens in an animation.
What flash does is gives you access to a tween. To make your life easier.
Tween= in between.
Insert key frame when something is going to happen.
Key frames- where things happen.
The more frames, the slower it will go.
For today, Mr.Case wants us to make a pool table, so that you can get used to this program a little and then next week, we will work on other things like animations and more.
Thats all for this week.
It's a long weekend, so everyone enjoy!
- Peggy .
FLA- flash project
FLV- flash video
SWF- Shock wave flash
Action script is a simply programming language. One of the biggest complaints for programmers is that its not that complex, therefore they couldn't make so many programs.
Time line is good for making videos.
Main space is called a stage. Make it 600x400 pixels, which is the most common.
When you are watching a video, you really see still pictures one after the other, very fast.
Movies have a slower frame rate, therefore it is different when you watch a movie in the movie theater.
You see 30 frames a second.
Videos on YouTube run 12 frames a second, which makes it more clear than if you see it on something else.
When you have a little box at the top, it means you have one frame[one picture in your video].
The amount of boxes shows you how many pictures you have.
If you want to add a video, you add a new layer, so you don't mess up your background.
Your top layer will automatically go to the right number of frames as the bottom layer.
Cue ball= a graphical image on the screen.
Grab your selection tool, and double click, and right click to turn it into a symbol. [graphic symbol]
The good thing about symbols is that it will have the same picture stored, but wont increase the size of your file.
When you make a symbol, it wont add much to the file size, because its using the image to make more of it.
In the old days, if you wanted to animate something, you would have to make it into a key frame. key frame= when something happens in an animation.
What flash does is gives you access to a tween. To make your life easier.
Tween= in between.
Insert key frame when something is going to happen.
Key frames- where things happen.
The more frames, the slower it will go.
For today, Mr.Case wants us to make a pool table, so that you can get used to this program a little and then next week, we will work on other things like animations and more.
Thats all for this week.
It's a long weekend, so everyone enjoy!
- Peggy .
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
S.T.U.D.Y. !
Here's what you need to know for the test that will be coming up on Wednesday!
Organize. (photoshop will automatically add pictures into your organizer, if you have created it with photoshop.) Tag your images by clicking it, and going up to the options column and click on ''tag''.
Tagging is a great way to organize your pictures.
You can add things like captions, sound, etc. All the information is in the picture, like what camera was used to take the picture, what time it was taken at etc.
If you want to make a calendar, you can drop the pictures into the calendar. You can insert pictures into your calendar, on the date you took the picture or you made it. This is a user friendly feature. This calendar feature isn't on every photoshop.
Hint: study the ''create'' things.
He might ask you how to create a photo book= You select the pictures you want, go to create, photo book.
Its a nice way to make a page. Slide show= select the pictures you want, go to create and select slide show. When you make a slide show, you can put it onto a DVD, and watch it on your computer.
You can fit slides to audio. You can have slides match the mp3, so it fills the whole space.
You can email the slide show, and change the size of it.
You should know:
What resolution should a picture be when your printing it? 300 DPI
What are the two main sizes a picture should be. 8x10 and 5x7, and 4x6
resolution for monitor= 72DPI
The different tools.
- You can use the navigator instead of the zoom tool.
If you want to add a complimentary colour to your picture, you can use the eye dropper, and it will sample colour from an image .
Markee tool- selects an area. If you want to get rid of the markee tool, you have to click CTRL+D.
First thing you do for trouble shooting your problem(if your tools aren't working) : 1) go to layers. [you might be on the wrong layer]
2) remove a selection. [there is a good chance that there might be a small selection on your page, so check for any selections. so press CTRL+D, to make sure.
3) they are on the wrong mode. (but you don't need to worry about this step)
Lasso tool: tries to automatically highlight the closest thing you wanted to choose. [a selection tool]
magic wand: selecting colors= when you use the magic wand,
tolerance- how close the pixels are together.
contiguous- will select the pixels that are touching the pixel you chose.
You can use the magic brushes to extract people, or anything from a picture.
You have mask tool: its a selection for wanting to do something weird. Gives you a mask, so you can make changes. It will mask an area out. [don't need to know because Mr.Case doesn't use it.]
Crop tool: you can choose the length, height, resolution.
Cookie cutter tool: you chose a shape and it make a selection for you. [Mr.Case doesn't use it.]
Its a way of making selections in fancy shapes. Like hearts, etc.
Straightening an image(it makes your image straight): you have to make a duplicate layer, [like you always have to do]. (Mr.Case doesn't use it)
Red eye: desaturates the red in someones colour. It extracts the red. Changes the red level to zero.
Spot healing: If there is a blemish in a picture, tap on a n area, it takes the information from the surrounding pixels to make the blemished spot go away. Its similar to the clone tool.
Blur: opposite = sharpen
dodge: brighter.
burn: darker. Trick is to apply it to a realistic place. Used for making shadows. [you don't really need to know]
Make sure you know your hexadecimals: (goes up by 16's)
256= 100
16- 10
17= 11
32= 20
There will be three questions on the test about hexadecimals!
a0 = 160
a1= 161
a00= 2560
Additive and subtractive colours.
Primary colours when dealing with light: RGB
Primary colours when dealing with ink: Cyan, magenta, yellow
Opposite of RGB is cyan, magenta, and yellow. And the middle is white. [when you add everything together]
CMYK. k=black
Additive for monitors. [when you add colours it will get brighter colors]
Subtractive for printers. [when you add colours together you get darker colors]
ff is the highest value.
If you have ff under R, you'll have red.
Studyyy !!
Bye .
- Peggy .
Organize. (photoshop will automatically add pictures into your organizer, if you have created it with photoshop.) Tag your images by clicking it, and going up to the options column and click on ''tag''.
Tagging is a great way to organize your pictures.
You can add things like captions, sound, etc. All the information is in the picture, like what camera was used to take the picture, what time it was taken at etc.
If you want to make a calendar, you can drop the pictures into the calendar. You can insert pictures into your calendar, on the date you took the picture or you made it. This is a user friendly feature. This calendar feature isn't on every photoshop.
Hint: study the ''create'' things.
He might ask you how to create a photo book= You select the pictures you want, go to create, photo book.
Its a nice way to make a page. Slide show= select the pictures you want, go to create and select slide show. When you make a slide show, you can put it onto a DVD, and watch it on your computer.
You can fit slides to audio. You can have slides match the mp3, so it fills the whole space.
You can email the slide show, and change the size of it.
You should know:
What resolution should a picture be when your printing it? 300 DPI
What are the two main sizes a picture should be. 8x10 and 5x7, and 4x6
resolution for monitor= 72DPI
The different tools.
- You can use the navigator instead of the zoom tool.
If you want to add a complimentary colour to your picture, you can use the eye dropper, and it will sample colour from an image .
Markee tool- selects an area. If you want to get rid of the markee tool, you have to click CTRL+D.
First thing you do for trouble shooting your problem(if your tools aren't working) : 1) go to layers. [you might be on the wrong layer]
2) remove a selection. [there is a good chance that there might be a small selection on your page, so check for any selections. so press CTRL+D, to make sure.
3) they are on the wrong mode. (but you don't need to worry about this step)
Lasso tool: tries to automatically highlight the closest thing you wanted to choose. [a selection tool]
magic wand: selecting colors= when you use the magic wand,
tolerance- how close the pixels are together.
contiguous- will select the pixels that are touching the pixel you chose.
You can use the magic brushes to extract people, or anything from a picture.
You have mask tool: its a selection for wanting to do something weird. Gives you a mask, so you can make changes. It will mask an area out. [don't need to know because Mr.Case doesn't use it.]
Crop tool: you can choose the length, height, resolution.
Cookie cutter tool: you chose a shape and it make a selection for you. [Mr.Case doesn't use it.]
Its a way of making selections in fancy shapes. Like hearts, etc.
Straightening an image(it makes your image straight): you have to make a duplicate layer, [like you always have to do]. (Mr.Case doesn't use it)
Red eye: desaturates the red in someones colour. It extracts the red. Changes the red level to zero.
Spot healing: If there is a blemish in a picture, tap on a n area, it takes the information from the surrounding pixels to make the blemished spot go away. Its similar to the clone tool.
Blur: opposite = sharpen
dodge: brighter.
burn: darker. Trick is to apply it to a realistic place. Used for making shadows. [you don't really need to know]
Make sure you know your hexadecimals: (goes up by 16's)
256= 100
16- 10
17= 11
32= 20
There will be three questions on the test about hexadecimals!
a0 = 160
a1= 161
a00= 2560
Additive and subtractive colours.
Primary colours when dealing with light: RGB
Primary colours when dealing with ink: Cyan, magenta, yellow
Opposite of RGB is cyan, magenta, and yellow. And the middle is white. [when you add everything together]
CMYK. k=black
Additive for monitors. [when you add colours it will get brighter colors]
Subtractive for printers. [when you add colours together you get darker colors]
ff is the highest value.
If you have ff under R, you'll have red.
Studyyy !!
Bye .
- Peggy .
Monday, April 6, 2009
Get your site up and running!
-Roll over image means that when you click on a picture that has two layers, and it will automatically change the picture so the second layer.
-You can insert flash buttons.
Disadvantage- everyone knows what it looks like. They can recognize them.
-You can put pictures on your buttons if you want to!
Hint: When you are making your page, don't use HTML, use the tools at the bottom. You don't need to use HTML right now. You only need to know HTML for the test.
-Tables are a great way for laying out your document.
-When your building a page using tables, you insert tables into tables. No border, 90% of the page.
-The reason why is that when you center the table, no matter how big your text is, it will fit into the table, and no matter how long your line is, it wont run off. The tables is kind of like a margin for your page.
-You can use tables to create your page. You can go to expanded table mod, because it will make it easier for you to see your tables.
-You can also use invisible tables, and that way no one will see it, but it's easier for you to make your table.
What you need to know on the test on Wednesday:
Hexadecimals. (no number more than 256)
And everything on Adobe Photoshop.
GOOD NEWS! Right before the bell, Mr.Case told us that the test on Wednesday is canceled!
So I guess you don't need to study . =P
Bye.
- Peggy .
-You can insert flash buttons.
Disadvantage- everyone knows what it looks like. They can recognize them.
-You can put pictures on your buttons if you want to!
Hint: When you are making your page, don't use HTML, use the tools at the bottom. You don't need to use HTML right now. You only need to know HTML for the test.
-Tables are a great way for laying out your document.
-When your building a page using tables, you insert tables into tables. No border, 90% of the page.
-The reason why is that when you center the table, no matter how big your text is, it will fit into the table, and no matter how long your line is, it wont run off. The tables is kind of like a margin for your page.
-You can use tables to create your page. You can go to expanded table mod, because it will make it easier for you to see your tables.
-You can also use invisible tables, and that way no one will see it, but it's easier for you to make your table.
What you need to know on the test on Wednesday:
Hexadecimals. (no number more than 256)
And everything on Adobe Photoshop.
GOOD NEWS! Right before the bell, Mr.Case told us that the test on Wednesday is canceled!
So I guess you don't need to study . =P
Bye.
- Peggy .
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Long weekend ahead of us!
Last day of school, before the long weekend. How great?!!!! We also have a four day week next week, because next Friday is Good Friday! And the week after, it's a four day week too, because there is no school on Monday.
Before we got time to work on Dream Weaver, we learned some things! There is a program called Pirate Bay. This is a program that finds hash files by connecting with each other with a Peer to Peer network.
Each site has it's own address. Just like how every one of us lives somewhere and has an address. No one else in the world has the same address as you, unless of course it's your parents and brothers and sisters. The address for a site is called a URL (Uniformed Resource Locator).
Each address is started with ''www''. And ends with a domain like ''com'', ''org'', ''ca'' etc.
A domain is very similar to your address in whole. Like if you live in a building, you say your building number, just like ''com'' etc.
We have started a new assignment. We each have to create our own web page using our knowledge of HTML. There are a few rules you need to look out for when you are creating a web page.
1) Don't put pictures, videos, logos etc. onto your HTML page. When you are creating a web page, the only things that should be on your page is words and HTML codes. If you want to add pictures and anything else to your web page, you need to give a link and it will access the page with your pictures, videos etc on it.
2) You can't send pictures, videos etc. with HTML!
When you are making a web page, keep the videos, pictures and anything else you want in one folder. The mistake that many kids made during the past few years, when they were handing in their web pages is that they didn't send Mr.Case the folder containing their pictures, videos etc. And Mr.Case couldn't view their web page on the Internet! So be sure to send Mr.Case everything you have done.
3) Be sure to save your main page as ''Index''! The reason for this is that if you don't, other people can simply view the rest of your page, with all the files on it, and could possibly hack it and find out your password!
Tip: If you want to resize your pictures, make sure you have a sample of it, just in case!
That's it for today!
Good Day !
- Peggy .
Before we got time to work on Dream Weaver, we learned some things! There is a program called Pirate Bay. This is a program that finds hash files by connecting with each other with a Peer to Peer network.
Each site has it's own address. Just like how every one of us lives somewhere and has an address. No one else in the world has the same address as you, unless of course it's your parents and brothers and sisters. The address for a site is called a URL (Uniformed Resource Locator).
Each address is started with ''www''. And ends with a domain like ''com'', ''org'', ''ca'' etc.
A domain is very similar to your address in whole. Like if you live in a building, you say your building number, just like ''com'' etc.
We have started a new assignment. We each have to create our own web page using our knowledge of HTML. There are a few rules you need to look out for when you are creating a web page.
1) Don't put pictures, videos, logos etc. onto your HTML page. When you are creating a web page, the only things that should be on your page is words and HTML codes. If you want to add pictures and anything else to your web page, you need to give a link and it will access the page with your pictures, videos etc on it.
2) You can't send pictures, videos etc. with HTML!
When you are making a web page, keep the videos, pictures and anything else you want in one folder. The mistake that many kids made during the past few years, when they were handing in their web pages is that they didn't send Mr.Case the folder containing their pictures, videos etc. And Mr.Case couldn't view their web page on the Internet! So be sure to send Mr.Case everything you have done.
3) Be sure to save your main page as ''Index''! The reason for this is that if you don't, other people can simply view the rest of your page, with all the files on it, and could possibly hack it and find out your password!
Tip: If you want to resize your pictures, make sure you have a sample of it, just in case!
That's it for today!
Good Day !
- Peggy .
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
APRIL FOOLS!
Hello people. Hope everyone had a great April Fools day, because I know I sure did! =]
Before we started the class today, we talked a little about the april fools jokes on the internet. How people make viruses that are fake and put them on the internet. But most of them are real so be aware!!!! In the old days, viruses were made to just hack into a computer and damage one's computer, but recently, viruses are made to be hidden in your computer, and then mess up your computer, by making your computer not function the way its supposed to. Virus makers can now control the way your computer works. They can also make money by selling information that they stole off your computer, like some one's pictures, email address etc. Now we all sit and think to ourselves why people spend so much time creating viruses, just so that they can hack into other people's computers. Well, virus writers are mostly people who have been turned down for program writting, because they weren't good enough, therefore they take their anger out on others, by messing up other people's computers. Sounds silly, but they do it anyways! Here's something that might surprise you. Everyone thinks that when they have anti virus programs on their computer, they are protected from any virus that is out there on the Internet. But their wrong! Some viruses can hide themselves from anti virus programs. Where do all these viruses come from? Virus makers are smart, in some ways, because they hide viruses in places that people use the most. For example, no one likes paying for Photoshop because it's expensive, so the next best place to own photoshop is by downloading it from a site! Now you think, just because the site says it's safe, and virus free, it has to be! But in reality, virus writers hide viruses in programs like Photoshop, because they know that a lot of people like downloading the program! It's not just computer programs, but movies, songs, and pirated softwares. Here's a hint! Never download a pirated version of anything, especially Anti Virus, because it is guaranteed that it contains a virus. Also because people hide viruses in the Anti Virus program, and it can't detect it because it is pirated!
Here's a cool trick! In order to prevent viruses on your computer, if you don't have Anti Virus is to run your clocks two days behind, so that when a virus hits, and other computers are affected, you will find out about the virus ahead of everyone!
This is what we learned on April first! =]
Bye for now.
- Peggy .
Oh, by the way, Mr.Case gave me a site where I can download an Anti Virus program, that he uses himself. If you don't have Anti Virus on your computer, I suggest you download it from this site: http://free.avg.com/
Before we started the class today, we talked a little about the april fools jokes on the internet. How people make viruses that are fake and put them on the internet. But most of them are real so be aware!!!! In the old days, viruses were made to just hack into a computer and damage one's computer, but recently, viruses are made to be hidden in your computer, and then mess up your computer, by making your computer not function the way its supposed to. Virus makers can now control the way your computer works. They can also make money by selling information that they stole off your computer, like some one's pictures, email address etc. Now we all sit and think to ourselves why people spend so much time creating viruses, just so that they can hack into other people's computers. Well, virus writers are mostly people who have been turned down for program writting, because they weren't good enough, therefore they take their anger out on others, by messing up other people's computers. Sounds silly, but they do it anyways! Here's something that might surprise you. Everyone thinks that when they have anti virus programs on their computer, they are protected from any virus that is out there on the Internet. But their wrong! Some viruses can hide themselves from anti virus programs. Where do all these viruses come from? Virus makers are smart, in some ways, because they hide viruses in places that people use the most. For example, no one likes paying for Photoshop because it's expensive, so the next best place to own photoshop is by downloading it from a site! Now you think, just because the site says it's safe, and virus free, it has to be! But in reality, virus writers hide viruses in programs like Photoshop, because they know that a lot of people like downloading the program! It's not just computer programs, but movies, songs, and pirated softwares. Here's a hint! Never download a pirated version of anything, especially Anti Virus, because it is guaranteed that it contains a virus. Also because people hide viruses in the Anti Virus program, and it can't detect it because it is pirated!
Here's a cool trick! In order to prevent viruses on your computer, if you don't have Anti Virus is to run your clocks two days behind, so that when a virus hits, and other computers are affected, you will find out about the virus ahead of everyone!
This is what we learned on April first! =]
Bye for now.
- Peggy .
Oh, by the way, Mr.Case gave me a site where I can download an Anti Virus program, that he uses himself. If you don't have Anti Virus on your computer, I suggest you download it from this site: http://free.avg.com/
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