SS 2 - COMPUTER STUDIES (GRAPHIC PACKAGES)

 

GRAPHIC PACKAGES

Graphics are visual images or designs on some surface, such as a wall, canvas, screen, paper, or stone to inform, illustrate, or entertain. In contemporary usage it includes: pictorial representation of data, as in computer-aided design and manufacture, in typesetting and the graphic arts, and in educational and recreational software. Images that are generated by a computer are called computer graphics.

Examples are photographs, drawings, Line art, graphs, diagrams, typography, numbers, symbols, geometric designs, maps, engineering drawings, or other images. Graphics often combine text, illustration, and colour. Graphic design may consist of the deliberate selection, creation, or arrangement of typography alone, as in a brochure, flyer, poster, web site, or book without any other element. Clarity or effective communication may be the objective, association with other cultural elements may be sought, or merely, the creation of a distinctive style. With all these being said about graphics, what then is a graphic design package?

DEFINITION OF A GRAPHICS DESIGN PACKAGES

A graphics package is an application that can be used to create and manipulate images on a computer. It can also be defined as any computer program or software that makes a computer capable of displaying and manipulating picture or images.

Computer graphics are graphics created using computers and, more generally, the representation and manipulation of image data by a computer.

EXAMPLE OF GRAPHIC PACKAGES

Common examples of graphic packages are:

1.     Paint

2.     Corel Draw

3.     Adobe Photoshop

4.     Harvard graphics

5.     Print master

6.     Ventura

7.     Jasc’s Paint Shop Pro

8.     Ps Paintbrush

9.     Adobe Page Maker

COREL DRAW

CorelDraw (styled CorelDraw) is a vector graphics editor developed and marketed by Corel Corporation of Ottawa, Canada. It is also the name of Corel's Graphics Suite, which bundles CorelDraw with bitmap-image editor Corel Photo-Paint as well as other graphics-related programs (see below). The latest version is designated X8 (equivalent to version 18) and was released in March 2016. Corel Draw is designed to edit two-dimensional images such as logos and posters.

Common features of Corel Draw packages

OBJECT: An element in a drawing such as an image, shape, line, text, curve, symbol, or layer.

DRAWING: The work you create in Corel Draw: for example, custom artwork, logos, posters, and newsletters.

Vector graphic: An image generated from mathematical descriptions that determine the position, length, and direction in which lines are drawn.

Bitmap: An image composed of grids of pixels or dots.

Docker: A window containing available commands and settings relevant to a specific tool or task.

Flyout: A button that opens a group of related tools or menu items.

Artistic text: A type of text to which you can apply special effects, such as shadows.

Paragraph text: A type of text to which you can apply formatting options, and which can be edited in large blocks.

Components of CorelDraw

Title bar

The title bar is the bar that displays the name of the CorelDraw file on which you are working on. It is also used to reposition the CorelDraw window on the screen

The Rulers

Rulers serve as a positioning and sizing aid. The can be turned off optionally. In addition, one can drag guidelines off the ruler to serve as drawing aids.

The scroll Bars

The scroll bars is used to move the page up and down. Horizontally and vertically.

Drawing window

That is the white large portion of the screen is the drawing window. The rectangle with a drop shadow is the printable page.

Roll up windows

This is shown on the left, they are not always permanent in appearance in the interface but can appear if needed. Roll up windows are nicely packed persistent dialog boxes that remains on the screen as long as it is needed.

Status bar

Status bar shows the fill pattern, outline, location, movement and absolute coordinates of a selected object. The status bar changes dynamically depending on the action being performed. It can be customized to show different kinds of information.