Multimedia Production

MULTIMEDIA PRODUCTION 4(1+3)

Lesson 6 : Softwares for Producing Multimedia and Interface Elements

Painting and drawing tools

Painting and Drawing tools let you create a drawing from scratch. Painting and drawing tools are the most important items in toolkit because of all multimedia elements, the graphical impact of project will likely have the greatest influence on the end user.
Painting and drawing tools generally come with a graphical user interface with pull down menus for quick selection. We can create almost all kinds of possible shapes and resize them. These tools have the capability to color with paint and clip arts. One can use brushes of different sizes and shapes according to the need.

 

One can use layers to give different treatment to each element. Most of these tools come with built-in plug-ins for performing different tasks. Once the drawing is complete it can be imported or exported in many image formats like .gif, .tif, .jpg, .bmp, etc.

 

With CorelDraw, one can create illustrations from scratch. It can be used to improve clip art, pictures and photos. It is an ideal tool for any design project like technical drawings, advertisements, logos, etc. It can be used in creating full-color illustrations for multifarious drawings and graphics for any designing project. It has lot of clip arts and high-quality drawings, which can be inserted into your multimedia project. One can also generate drawing for an animation sequence by using this software.

Designer is one of the professional rating drawing and graphics package for windows, which is also available in OS/2 system. It is specially meant for graphic artists and technical illustrators. It has a wide range of drawing tools and powerful text handling features.