Competencies (Page 1 of 2)

• Describe graphics software, including desktop

publishing, image editors, illustration programs,
image galleries, and graphics suites
Chapter 4 • Discuss audio and video editing software
• Describe multimedia, including story boards and
multimedia authoring programs
Specialized Application
Software

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Introduction
Competencies (Page 2 of 2)
• Software that for years was only
available for mainframe computers is
• Explain Web authoring, Web site design, now available for microcomputers.
Specialized application software
and Web authoring programs makes it possible to perform
• Describe virtual reality and VRML advanced tasks at home.
• Home users can now create Webs
• Discuss knowledge-based (expert) systems sites, work with graphic images, and
create music or art.
• Describe robotics including perception • Robots now provide security and
systems, industrial robots, and mobile assistance in homes.
robots • Competent end users need to be
aware of specialized applications
such as: graphics programs, audio
and video editing software,
multimedia, Web authoring, and
artificial intelligence.
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Specialized Applications Graphics

• Graphics Programs • Desktop publishing
• Audio and Video Software • Image editors
• Multimedia Programs
• Illustration programs
• Web Authoring Programs
• Artificial Intelligence • Image galleries
– Virtual Reality • Graphic suites
– Knowledge-based Systems
– Robotics

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 Desktop Publishing Image Editors
• Programs that allow you to create • Programs for creating and editing bitmap
publications images
– Mix text and graphics – Bitmap images use dots or pixels to represent an
– Professional quality image
• Popular programs – Bitmap images are also called raster images
– Adobe PageMaker • Popular programs
– Microsoft Publisher – Microsoft Paint
– QuarkXPress – Adobe Photoshop
– Corel PhotoPaint
– Paint Shop Pro
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Illustration Programs Image Galleries

• Programs used to create & edit vector images • Libraries of electronic images
• Drawing programs
• Used for a variety of applications
• Vector images use geometric shapes or
objects • Two basic types
• Popular programs – Stock photographs
– Adobe Illustrator – Clip art
– CorelDraw
• There are numerous
– Macromedia FreeHand
– Micrografx Designer Web image galleries

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Graphic Suites Audio and Video

• Bundled graphic programs • Video editing software
– Enhances digital video
• Can buy a larger variety of graphics footage
programs at a lower cost – Apple's iMovie &
Windows Movie Maker
• Popular suites
• Audio editing software
– CorelDraw Graphics Suite
– Creates and edits audio
– Adobe’s Creative Suites clips
– Macromedia’s Studio – Can create your own
MP3s
– Apple’s Garage Band and
Sony’s ACID

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 Digital Video Editing Multimedia
• Capture Video • The integration of a variety of media into one
presentation
• Edit a Movie
– Video
• Create a DVD – Music
– Voice
– Graphics
– Text
• Should include user interactivity

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Links & Buttons Developing Multimedia

Presentations
Links can be to… • Plan and Analyze
– Video • Design
– Sound • Create
– Graphics
• Support
– Text Files
• Buttons are links
and provide the
ability to navigate
through a
presentation
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Multimedia Authoring Programs Web Authoring

• Special programs used to create multimedia • Corporations use the Web to reach new
presentations customers
• Bring together all the video, audio, graphics, • Many individuals create their own personal
and text elements sites, called Web logs or blogs, to keep in
• Popular programs touch with friends and family
– Macromedia Director • Web Site Design
– Authorware • Web Authoring Programs
– Toolbook

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 Web Site Design Web Authoring Programs
• Interactive
multimedia form of • Known as Web page editors or HTML editors
communication – Provide support for Web site design
– Create a graphical – Creates HTML coding
map of overall • Popular programs
content – Macromedia Dreamweaver
– Add multimedia – NetObjects Fusion
elements like
– Microsoft FrontPage
animation
• Macromedia's
Flash
• Morphing
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Web Authoring Sequence Artificial Intelligence

• Attempts to simulate
human senses, thought
processes, and actions
• Designed to help
people and
organizations become
more productive
• Three areas of AI
– Virtual reality
– Knowledge-based
(expert) systems
– Robotics
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Knowledge-Based
Virtual Reality
(Expert) Systems
• Artificial or simulated reality • Artificial intelligence that uses a database for
– Generated in 3-D by a computer assistance
– Commonly known as VR, artificial reality, or • Database is known as a knowledge base
virtual environments
• Many use "fuzzy logic"
• Virtual reality modeling language (VRML)
– Used to create
real-time animated 3-D scenes
– Cosmos Worlds
from Cosmos Software

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 Robotics Careers in IT
• The field of study concerned with using • Desktop publishers use computers to format and
robots create publication-ready material
– Books
• Robots are computer-controlled machines
– Magazines
– Mimic the motor activities of living things – Newsletters
– Three types of robots – Newspapers
• Perception system robots • Generally requires completion of a
• Industrial robots
program, good communication skills, and artistic
• Mobile robots
ability
• Desktop publishers can expect to earn $25K - $42K
annually

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A Look to the Future Discussion Questions (Page 1 of 2)

Artificial Intelligence
• Research is being done to give robots a • Describe graphics, including desktop
sense of values so they can make decisions publishers, image editors, illustration
independently programs, image galleries, and graphics
• The Saya robot is under development in suites.
Tokyo • Discuss audio and video editing software.
• What is multimedia? How are multimedia
presentations developed?

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Discussion Questions (Page 2 of 2)

• Describe Web authoring, including Web site
design and Web authoring programs.
• Discuss three areas of artificial intelligence.

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