Explaining Components

Hard Drive –

A hard drive is built into a computer and is used to store all your files, documents, music etc. a hard drive comes in many sizes the bigger a hard drive is the more files you can hold on it.

Graphics Card –

A graphics card is used to display videos, images etc. this is a main component in a computer system and is in every computer, some graphics cards are better than others. Graphics cards are used widely for gaming computers as well as normal pc but they are very important in terms of pictures, and watching videos etc.

Processor –

A processor is the brain of the computer and carries out all the calculations. The faster a processor in the computer the faster it will carry out all your tasks on the computer.

RAM –

RAM is the memory in a computer that all the software runs on, the bigger the ram in the computer the faster it will be which is really good as you could have a lot of programs open at once which you might need for your work and the computer wont freeze.

How can these affect the performance of the computer?

All these components can make the computer really fast, excellent visual quality, and a large capacity depending on the size and speed of all these components.

Describe two types of software packages which can be used to create and edit graphics?

Photoshop – Photoshop can create and edit graphics in so many ways it is a great program and it is very brief in terms of the tools that you can use. photoshop is made by adobe who are experts in a lot of different programs.

Standard Tools -

Freehand Draw -

Free hand drawing is good for messing about and getting used to the program itself. iti s just like using a pencil or a brush on the computer screen on a blank page or even on a picture if you want to draw over something.


 

Rotate -

Rotate is used for turning the picture around from clockwise to anti clockwise to whatever way you want to view the picture at.


 

Flip -

Flip is used for changing the picture to the opposite direction so your looking at it from a different view.


 

Crop -

Crop is for making the picture smaller by cutting a bit of it. this is a handy tool if you just want to see something specific on a picture and not the background of the picture.


 

Group/Ungroup -

Grouping and Ungrouping is like when you have 3 photos underneath each other and you want to move all them at once on down the page instead of moving one at a time you can group them and move them all at once this is far easier for moving them.



 

Resize

Special Effects - 

Soften

Sharpen

Watermark

Invert

Macromedia Fireworks – Macromedia Fireworks is a really good software program for editing graphics as well I have had a lot of experience with it and I still haven’t gone through all the effects.

Standard Tools -

Freehand Draw

Rotate

Flip

Crop

Group/Ungroup

Resize

Special Effects - 

Soften

Sharpen

Watermark

Invert