Week Two

Readings


Graphic File Formats

I use Photoshop extensively in my every day use of my computer so most of this information I already had knowledge of.
.gif is best for web based graphics such as online Avatars.
.jpeg compression is inefficient and will not be as good quality as the original. Handy for image posting though, if someone “RIPs” or copy’s your image and claims it as their own you (should
) have the original .psd file which will be of a superior quality and allow you to prove your ownership. Something I have had to do on one occasion.
.psd is the Photoshop format document and allows the saving of layers and is the best format to save images in for further editing down the track, also you have the option of saving it as either a RGB image or a CMYK image. RGB being best for web uploading and screen viewing and CMYK being best for printing of images.
.tiff images have the best compression to quality ratio and there for is the most common format for having images printed professionally.


Using MS Word for APA Tasks

Again just a refreshing of information that I have already learnt, though unlike the previous readings I have not used these functions in word for a few years so it was helpful in refreshing my memory for the tutorial task. Though the fact that it was for XP word programs and we are using Vista it comes off as being only half relevant to the tutorial.

Tutorial
Today’s tutorial was once again relatively easy for me in terms of content, though I am still having a hard time accepting that Vista is indeed a better OS than XP, some of the aspect seem counter intuitive and it tends to use and abuse the RAM more than XP but it’s what I’m stuck with at UNI so I guess I’m going to have to make do. The reading where again relatively easy and covered things that I already know. The same applies to the tasks, Word and Excel where covered in my year 8 computer classes so it mainly involved becoming more familiar with the Vista format of the programs than any inability to operate and understand the programs.

Lecture
This week’s lecture was similar to last weeks, just revising concepts and information that I already have knowledge of. It was mostly on what applications are commonly run on a PC and dealt with ones such as Power point, word, e-mails, excel, and I’m sure that Helen mentioned the KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) rule somewhere. Though as with last week’s tutorial readings a few trivial things popped up that I did not know about, such as the statistics for how many people use what internet browser.

Screen Shots