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What are the New Media?                                                                                        New Media is divided into graphics, sound and video, and multimedia.Graphics are programs like Photoshop, where you can import/scan/draw images/type and manipulate them.  Sound and Video software includes SoundEdit 16 where you can edit and convert sound files, and Final Cut Pro, digital editing package.Director, Flash and Dreamweaver come under Multimedia packages, for web authoring or stand alone projector files.
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Background                                                                                            Photoshop is a graphics programme. It has so many different functions they cannot be listed. You can create/ draw images in Photoshop, scan/import images and manipulate them. You have various text fonts, there are many Photoshop plugins you can download from the web for certain special effects. Graphic designers also favour Photoshop because you can create an image in layers and decide if a particular layout works for you design. Version 5.5 has ImageReady, which you launch inside Photoshop. It is designed to be used for web based graphics. You can make Rollovers (buttons which change state as your cursor rolls over them), animated gifs and optimised your graphics (reduce the file size according to the quality you need for your web page).

Director is a powerful multimedia package, used mostly for creating CD-ROM and DVD's, although you can make Shockwave files for the web. It is especially convenient because you can import almost any files, including Photoshop layers. Therefore you can work with large bits of video, text, sound and images. You can make games, animations, interactive movies, and because it is powerful you can create very beautiful graphics/animations.

Flash is a web authoring software produced by macromedia. Most of the animated content you see on the web is made in Flash.  Flash is vector-based. This means that it uses equations to translate an image. It also utilises shared libraries, where you can convert a drawing or imported image/sound into a symbol. This symbol can be used repeatedly but Flash has only one memory of this symbol. The symbol can be used for any Flash movie. This means that flash can create complex animations/interactive movies with small file sizes. Plus vector based drawings can be resized without losing quality. Flash can do a lot of what is done on the web using JavaScript. Once you have created a Flash movie, you insert it into an HTML page, you can have a stand-alone projector, but for larger files e.g.: CD-ROM authoring it is probably best to use Director.

Notes                                                                                                               New Media labs are located on the first and ground floor of Poole house. This section is always expanding and we aim to update this section as regularly as possible.