1. Multimedia Software Wm P Woodall Spring 2006

2. Software that enables Multimedia System Software  OS  Utilities  Networking Development Software  Graphics  Sound  Text  Web Developing  Multimedia Authoring Delivery Software  Stand-Alone Programs  Players

3. System Software Written specifically to control its Platform (or Processor Family) Often is unique to the platform Takes advantage of features of platform Upgrading may not be available (i.e. Win98 to XP2) Alternatives for a platform may be limited

4. Painting and Drawing Tools Bitmap vs. Vector Images Painting Software (bitmap)  PhotoShop, Photoshop Elements, iPhoto, Corel PhotoPaint Drawing Software (vector)  Adobe Illustrator, Acrobat, CorelDraw, AutoCAD  Flash  Fireworks

5. Image-editing Tools Specialized and powerful tools for enhancing and retouching, existing bitmapped images PhotoShop, Elements, Corel Paintshop Pro  Plug-ins Vertigo’s HotTEXT lets you turn text into 3-D objects Alienskin / EyeCandy Kai’s Power Tools (Corel KPT Collection) Xaos Paint Alchemy Nix Software Many, many, many others! RawShooter, Adobe RAW, Capture1

6. 3-D Modeling AutoDesk’s 3D Studio Max Bryce Poser Maya Strata 3D Carrara Defunct products – might still be useful…  Macromedia Extreme 3D  3d/fx  Infini-D

7. Sound Applications Sound Editing  Sound Recorder  Sound Forge  SoundEdit Pro (Macromedia SoundEdit16 is defunct)  GarageBand (Mac)  MIDI Sound Playback  Windows Media Player  QuickTime  Real Player  WinAmp

8. Video and Digital Movie Tools Formats: Microsoft AVI MPEG (1,2,4) Apple Quicktime Codecs (Compressor/Decompressor): MPEG, Divx, M-JPEG, Indeo (Intel), Cinepak, others Editors: Adobe Premiere, Pinnacle Studio, Avid, Final Cut

9. Linking Multimedia Objects DDE & OLE Office suites Microsoft Office Open Office iWork Presentation tools PowerPoint Keynote (Mac) Impress (Open Office)

10. Web Development Authoring Tools  Adobe (Macromedia) Dreamweaver  Microsoft FrontPage  Adobe’s GoLive Languages  JavaScript  Visual Basic (VBScript)  PHP/Perl/Python/AJAX etc.  Actionscript (Flash)

11. Helpful Accessories Screen Grabber  PaintShop Pro  Snag-it  Graphics Workshop Text Editor  TextPad Format Converter/Cataloger/Viewer  Graphics Workshop  IrfanView