Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Painting Tools



free-from select tool-this tool allows you to select odd shaped figures.
Select tool-this tool selects rectanglur areas.
Eraser-this tool allows you to rub out any errors.
Fill with a colour tool-this tool alows you to fill in a shape with a solid colour.
colour picker tool- this tool alows you to pic a certin colour from any place on your workpage.
Magnify tool-allows you to zoom in to the image.
pencil tool-thi stool letys you draw using your mouse.
Brush tool- allows you to draw with your mouse but with a thicker line.
air brush tool-thi sworks like a spray can.
text tool- allows you to insert words.
line tool- allows you to draw a straight line from one point to another.
curve tool-allows you to draw a smooth curve line.
rectangle tool-alows you to draw a rectangle.
polygon tool-this tool alows you to draw a 2D figure.
Ellipse tool-this draws circles or ellipses.
rounded rectangle-this tool allows you to draw a rectangle with rounded corners.

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Digital Art......Real Art



To create this art work i used Art pad, i like how you can use the paint tin to throw the paint on like a splat. Art pad is a paint program.

Ink scape-is a draw program. I used Ink scape to make this clown, I liked the tool were you can draw caligraghy strokes with i usesd for the mouth.





Art definition http://www.yourdictionary.com/

  • Human ability to make things; creativity of man as distigiuished from the world of natutre.
  1. I think digital art is a valid form of art as it states above that its the human ability to make things, you are still creating somthing person that no one can exactly make again.
  2. digital art you can copy and paste to create the same image. You can have,wider range of colours, you can make perfect shapes and you can fill up a large shape or area with colour without having to colour it in yourself.
  3. They must be aware of all tools on the paint or drawing program.

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Digital Media

Some forms of digital media include:

  • Digital text messages

  • Digital files

  • Digital picture files

  • Digital programs

  • Digital games

  • Digital cameras

  • Digital audio

  • Digital text messages



The two digits that are used to code all digital data is 0's and 1's. The American standed code is (ASCII).



A Bit is the basic unit of information in computing.

A byte is a unit of digital information in computing.

A sampling rate or sampling frequencey defines the number of samples per seconed.



Colour Depth


It affects the apearance of an image by giving it higher colour depth and a broder range of distinct colours.



1 bit



4 bit



24 bit

the sampling rate only affects video because it involves time

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

9ist

ive just created my blog this is my first post YaY!