Sound and Sight Audio and Image Editing Basics C. Candace Chou University of St. Thomas
Sound Formats and Applications RealPlayer:.rm,.ram QuickTime:.mov MP3 player:.mp3.Macintosh audio format:.aiff or.aif,. Windows audio format:.wav Web:.au, wav, aiff or aif Audio compression settings: Web: IMA 4:1; Rate: KHZ; Size: 16 bits CD: Rate: 44.1 KHz; Size: 16 bits; Stereo
Sound Editing Software Macintosh Sound Edit Sound Studio Windows CoolEdit, SoundForge Studio ( uct.asp?PID=718) uct.asp?PID=718 Free/Shareware:
Free Audio Download Sound Effects: Music downloads iMovie takes both MP3 and AIFF files
Image Formats & Uses JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) Web-based documents for photographic images or images that have noncontinuous colors - that have a variety of shades or gradations. Allows millions of colors
Image Formats & Uses GIF (Graphic Interchange Format) Web-based documents for images that have a continuous or flat color UP to 256 colors Transparent background Animated GIF
JPEG & GIF Comparison JPEG (Left): retains colors better GIF (Middle & Right): lost colors in pictures, support line drawing, simple cartoons.
File Format and Uses Bitmap (.bmp): Electronic presentations, e.g., Microsoft PowerPoint or Microsoft Word, commonly used for Windows TIFF (Tagged-Image File Format): Print documents, scanned images, when high quality and precision is required; tiff files can be changed for either larger or smaller files without losing precision. EPS (Encapsulated PostScript): Print publication and illustrations PICT: A generic file format for Macintosh
Web Images JPEG or GIF file format Change the resolution to 72 dpi to save image size Download a web image by control-click (Macintosh) or right-mouse click (Windows) to save image to disk Clip Arts:
Graphic Editing Software Photoshop Elements 2 Photoshop Macromedia Fireworks AppleWorks6 GraphicConverter Try for shareware and freewarehttp://
Dimensions of an iMovie Graphic Set size to 640 x 480 pixels Black borders appear for smaller pictures
Reference Wirtze. J. GIF vs. JPEG, geektalk/97/30/index3a.html?tw=desig n geektalk/97/30/index3a.html?tw=desig n Lohr, Linda (2003). Creating Graphics for Learning and Performance: Lesson in Visual Literacy. Pearson Education, Inc.