GRAPHICS SOFTWARE GRAPHICS

SOFTWARE PACKAGES ARE DESIGNED TO ALLOW THE USER TO DISPLAY IMAGES ON A COMPUTER MONITOR OR TO PRINT

IMAGES ON A PRINTER.

THE

GRAPHIC DISPLAY THAT CAN BE CREATED RANGE FROM A BAR CHART, GRAPHS, LINES CHARTS, PIE CHARTS, PLOT AND

DETAILED DESIGN OF OBJECTS CREATED BY ENGINEERS. MANY SOFTWARE APPLICATION INCLUDE GRAPHICS COMPONENTS SUCH AS PROGRAMS ARE SAID TO SUPPORT GRAPHICS FOR EXAMPLE, CERTAIN WORD PROCESSORS SUPPORT GRAPHICS BECAUSE THEY LEFT YOU DRAW OR IMPORT PICTURES.

ALL CAD (COMPUTER-AIDED

AS BUSINESS GRAPHICS.

DESIGN) SYSTEM SUPPORT GRAPHICS SOME DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND SPREAD SHEET PROGRAMS

SUPPORT GRAPHICS BECAUSE THEY LET YOU DISPLAY DATA IN THE FORM OF GRAPHS AND CHARTS. SUCH APPLICATIONS ARE OFTEN REFERRED TO

THE FOLLOWING ARE ALSO CONSIDERED GRAPHICS APPLICATIONS: *PAINT

PROGRAMS YOU TO CREATE ROUGH FREEHAND DRAWING . THE IMAGES ARE STORED AS IMAGES FILES AND CAN BE EASILY EDITED. ONE EXAMPLE IS

*ALLOW

THE MS PAINTBRUSH PROGRAM.

*ILLUSTRATION / *SUPPORT

DESIGN PROGRAMS.

MORE ADVANCED FEATURES THAN PAINT PROGRAMS, PARTICULARLY FOR DRAWING CURVED LINES. ILLUSTRATION

DESIGN PROGRAMS

ARE OFTEN CALLED DRAW PROGRAMS.

ONE EXAPLE IS PHOTOSHOP: *PRESENTATION *LETS

GRAPHICS SOFTWARE .

YOU CREATE BAR CHARTS, PIE CHARTS, GRAPHICS AND OTHER TYPES OF IMAGES FOR SLIDE SHOWS AND REPORTS. THE CHARTS CAN BE

BASED ON DATA IMPORTED FROM SPREADSHEET APPLICATION ONE EXAMPLE IS MS EXCEL.

*ANIMATION *ENABLES

SOFTWARE.

YOU TO CHAIN AND SEQUENCE A SERIES OF IMAGES TO SIMULATE MOVEMENT. EACH IMAGES IS LIKE A FRAME IN A MOVIE . ONE EXAMPLE

IS MS MOVIE MAKER.

*CAD

SOFTWARE ARCHITECTS AND ENGINEERS TO DRAFT DESIGN ONE EXAMPLE IS AUTO CAD. PUBLISHING A FULL SET OF WORD PROCESSING FEATURES AS WELL AS FINE CONTROL OVER PLACEMENT OF TEXT AND GRAPHICS, SO YOU CAN

*ENABLES *DESKTOP *PROVIDE

CREATE NEWSLETTERS, ADVERTISEMENTS, BOOKS AND OTHER TYPES OF DOCUMENTS ONE EXAMPLE IS MS PUBLISHER . IN GENERAL APPLICATIONS THAT SUPPORT GRAPHICS REQUIRE A POWERFUL CPU AN A LARGE AMOUNT OF MEMORY. MANY GRAPHICS APPLICATION FOR EXAMPLE COMPUTER ANIMATION SYSTEM REQUIRE MORE COMPUTING POWER THAN IS AVAILABLE ON PERSONAL COMPUTER AND WILL RUN ONLY ON POWERFUL WORKSTATIONS OR SPECIALLY DESIGNED GRAPHICS COMPUTERS. THIS IS TRUE OF ALL THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS APPLICATIONS.

The .PSD (Photoshop Document), Photoshop's native format, stores an image with support for most imaging options available in Photoshop. These include layers with masks, color spaces, ICC profiles, transparency, text, alpha channels and spot colors, clipping paths, and duotone settings. This is in contrast to many other file formats (example. .EPS or .GIF) that restrict content to provide streamlined,

predictable functionality. PSD format is limited to a maximum height and width of 30,000 pixels. .PSB (Photoshop Big) format, also known as "large document format" within Photoshop, is the extension of PSD format to images up to 300,000 pixels in width or height. That limit was apparently chosen somewhat arbitrarily by Adobe, not based on computer arithmetic constraints (it is not close to a significant power of two, as is 30,000) but for ease of software testing. PSD and PSB formats are documented. Photoshop's popularity means that the .PSD format is widely used, and it is supported to some extent by most competing software. The .PSD file format can be exported to and from Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premiere Pro, and After Effects, to make professional standard DVDs and provide non-linear editing and special effects services, such as backgrounds, textures, and so on, for television, film, and the Web. Photoshop is a pixel-based image editor, unlike programs such as Macromedia FreeHand (now defunct), Adobe Illustrator, Inkscape or CorelDraw, which are vector-based image editors. Photoshop uses color models RGB, lab, CMYK, grayscale, binary bitmap, and duotone. Photoshop has the ability to read and write raster and vector image formats such as .EPS, .PNG, .GIF and .JPEG.

Inkscape
Inkscape is a vector graphics editor application. It is distributed under a free software license, the GNU General Public License. Its goal is to implement full support for the Scalable Vector Graphics 1.1 standard. Inkscape is cross-platform and runs on Mac OS X (typically under X11, although the underlying GTK+ toolkit can be compiled to run natively under Quartz), Unix-like operating systems, and Microsoft Windows. Inkscape's implementation of SVG and CSS standards is incomplete. Most notably, it does not yet support animation, or SVG fonts, though base support for the creation of SVG fonts has been implemented as of version 0.47. Inkscape has multi-lingual support, particularly forcomplex scripts, something currently lacking in most commercial vector graphics applications. The word Inkscape is a portmanteau of the words ink andlandscape. FEAURES
OF INKSCAPE

Object creation The basic types of objects in Inkscape are:

Pathsmade with the Pencil tool, which allows freehand drawing of paths; the Pen tool, which allows the user to create a Bezier splinenode-by-node curves and lines in the same path; the Calligraphy tool, which can be used to draw freehand calligraphic or brush-like strokes, or the Paint Bucket tool, which fills bounded areas of the image. The Calligraphy tool optionally can

use pressure and tilt readings from graphic tablets. The Paint Bucket tool works optically rather than geometrically and can assist image tracing. The SprayTool creates copies or clones of one or several items, select the item(s), then to Spray click on the canvas, move the mouse or scroll the mouse wheel.

Rectanglescreated using the Rectangle tool. Corners of rectangles can be rounded. 3D Boxescreated using the 3D Box tool. The boxes have adjustable XYZ perspectives and configurable values for vanishing points. 3D boxes are in fact groups of paths and after ungrouping can be further modified.

Ellipsescreated using the Ellipse tool. Ellipses and Circles can be transformed into arcs (i.e.,open half circles) and segments (i.e., closed half circle).

Stars/polygonscreated using the Star and Polygon tool. Multi-pointed (3 to 1,024 points) stars with two control (base and tip) handles can be used to emulate spirographs. Polygons with one control (base) handle can be used to create items based on the number of sides hexagons, pentagons, etc.

Spiralscreated using the Spiral tool, have a configurable number of turns (revolutions), divergence (density/sparseness of outer turns), inner radius (roll out from center)

Clones Clones are child objects of an Original (parent) object(s) which can have different transformations applied than the original object. Clones can be created via Copies, the Spray tool or a Menu interface. Transformations include; size, position, rotation, blur, opacity, color and symmetry (layout). Clones are updated live whenever the original object changes.