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R. Craig Collins > intro to Computer Graphics > Overview 11

Overview 11 © R. Craig Collins, 2005/7

Items that should be accomplished before the beginning of the current time frame:
• Submitted Lab 7
• Reread as needed From On-line book: GIMP Basics: Layers

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Did you check the D2L Dropbox, to View feedback? Did you check D2L Grades for feedback? (You may have to scroll down)

Items to accomplish during the current course time frame:

•Read\Review
   • Colors
   • Setting the background and foreground colors in the GIMP
   • More about layers and the xcf filetype
   • Using Text
   • Video on Layers and Text

•Activities (preview of Lab 8)
   • Create new layers
   • Add colored shapes to an Image
   • Add text to an image
   • Save the image and it's layers in the xcf format
   • Export a flattened, merged version of the image
       to the png or jpeg format

GIMP Online Help: 7. The “Layers” Menu

7.1. Introduction to the “Layer” Menu
7.2. New Layer
7.3. New From Visible
7.4. Duplicate layer
7.5. Anchor layer
7.6. Merge Down
7.7. Delete Layer
7.33. Add Alpha Channel
7.34. Remove Alpha Channel
7.51. Layer to Image Size
7.52. Scale Layer
7.53. Crop to Selection

•Lab 8 (link to beginning of lab)

•Begin creating and testing Lab (link to graphic construction requirements)
(You will later transfer this information into a D2L dropbox)

•Quiz for Lab 8
(The 'quiz' this time is to describe using the tool of Lab 7)

     • Optional: Open/save an Acrobat pdf document to print with directions
       (get Adobe Acrobat Reader free, here)
     • Optional: Right click/save a Word doc document to print with directions
     • Optional: Right click/save a Rich Text rtf document to print with directions
   •Complete Lab 8 and verify your
   (You will later transfer this information into a D2L dropbox)

•Submit by 11:59 am, Friday, of the current week (see due dates)
   • Lab 8 as directed

   • MUD 11 (My Understanding, Details) Respond
      What topics, if any, during this time frame do you feel very comfortable with? Why?
      What topics, if any, during this time frame do you not feel comfortable with?
   • Participation Discussion 11 Respond in the class D2L Discussion forum to the following:
      Photoshop and the GIMP are not drawing or paint tools, they are photoediting tools.
      That is why it is perhaps a little more difficult to paint a circle for example. So, how do you paint a circle?
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For the next time frame:
•Reread as needed: From On-line book: GIMP Basics: Layers
•Each test has a review; you may wish to write out pertinent information from the readings and activities
•After completing this overview, you may wish to start on the next Overview material, and preview Lab 9

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