SVG

Smooth transition from color to color is known as gradient.

★ Same element can be applied with several color transitions.

★ The types of gradients are:

1) Linear Gradients: Vertical, horizontal and angular gradients are known as Linear Gradients.

★ The tag <linearGradient> within <defs> tag is used to define linear gradients.

★ Linear Gradients effects from left to right or right to left or in diagonal directions of the object

2) Radial Gradients: The gradients with one color to another color is known as Radial Gradients.

★ Radial Gradients affects the middle part of the image.

★ Vector Markup Language supports vector graphic information markup.

★ The contents are composed of described paths using connected lines and curves.

★ VMS uses CSS Level 2 to determine the layout of the vector graphics.

★ The workflow for rendering VML is similar to that of HTML rendering.

★ The VML workflow generates the locations with related information for vector paths and related objects.

★ Followed by these operations, the bit map objects are rendered using the native operating system functionality.

VRML - Virtual Reality Modeling Language to describe 3D image sequences.

★ A sequence of visual images into Web settings are build, with which a web user can interact with 3D scene.

★ VRML viewer should be plugged-in for a browser to view VRML file.

★ Blaxxun's CC Pro, Platinum's Cosmo Player, WebFx, WorldView and Fountain are the VRML viewers for MS Windows platform.

★ Whurlwind and Voyager are the VRML viewers for Apple's Mac.

Following are some of the movie formats with file extensions and their description:

1) .3mm - 3D Movie Maker Movie

2) .aep - After Effects Project

3) .amv - Anime Music Video File

4) .asx - Microsoft ASF Redirector File

5) .avb - Avid Bin File

6) .gvp - Google Video Poiner

7) .lsf - Streaming Media Format

8) .m4e - MPEG-4 Video Format

9) .mjp - MJPEG Video File.

10) .rm - Real Media File

11) .siv - Sonic Imaging Video File

★ Anti-aliasing allows the images to soften the sharp edges in order to appear less jagged when rendered.

★ Anti-aliasing is performed by multi-sampling each pixel at multiple pixel locations and samples combining for generating a final pixel color, is done.

★ The amount of anti-aliasing is increased by increasing the number of samples per pixel, to generate smooth edge.

★ 4x and 2x multi-sampling needs 4 and 2 sample per pixel respectively.

★ Use GraphicsAdapter in XNA Game Studio 3.1.

Vector Graphics:

★ Vector Graphics are scalable.

★ They are cartoon-like and resolution independent.

★ They does not require background.

★ They are inappropriate to generate photo-realistic images.

Bit-map Graphics:

★ Bit-map images have pixels in a grid.

★ Re-sizing the image reduces the quality.

★ They are resolution dependent.

★ They can be converted into other format easily.

★ Flash files are smaller in size than animated GIFs, as they would not store every single frame of a specific animation.

★ As Flash files use vector art, it needs only mathematical data, rather than raster art.

★ Raster images, sounds and video that are added to Flash, increase the file size.

★ Flash animations are to provide security vulnerability compared to raster images.

★ Image quality in Flash is better than other animated images like GIF.

★ All raster images are limited by their palette, while flash is not limited in that aspect.

★ At times there would be a need to transform a bitmap into a vector image.

★ Outlining is known as the process to convert bitmap data to vector graphics.

★ Simplest way of converting bitmap image into vector image is to place the bit map image on the background of the canvas of any drawing application.

★ Manually draw over the graphics on the canvas.

★ The simple form of converting vector graphics into bitmap is to take a screen capture and save the image.

★ Photoshop opens some vector files and rasterizing them to convert it into bitmap file.

★ The <embed> and <object> tags are embedded into HTML page.

★ The type attribute might be set to incompatible MIME type.

★ The SVG MIME type is image/svg+xml.

★ To identify the <embed> and <object> tags along with SVG, the SVG plug-in is needed.

★ The plug-in need to be properly set. The SVG MIME type sometimes set as image/svg-xml. This will not recognize the <embed> and <object> tags.

★ Actions in Photoshop represents a series of recording steps applied by the designer.

★ Images / photos can enhance and enrich with a single click of a button.

★ Actions are identified by using .atn extension.

★ After loading the .atn file in the action palette, the folder can be selected and expanded by the user.

★ User clicks on play after highlighting the designated action from the folder.

★ The photo executes through a set of steps.

★ PNGOUT is one of the lossless image optimization tools.

★ PNGOUT can run in the command line or in Windows Run dialog box.

★ The options available in PNGOUT are robust.

★ Image compression can be done easily and also customized.

★ PNGOUT supports image optimization for JPG,GIF and PNG format files.

RIOT - Radical Image Optimization Tool, an image optimizer for MS-Windows users, available as a standalone application.

★ It is available as an extension of IrfanView.

★ RIOT supports JPG,GIF and PNG files.

★ It has the ability for stripping out the image metadata for file bloat reduction.

★ An image can be edited like pan, zoom, rotate and flip built-in.

AOL downloads are sometimes not compatible with other graphic formats.

★ The graphics are converted to .art file format. This format is not compatible with other browsers.

Following is the solution for this incompatibility:

1) Click on Members from AOL Menu Bar.

2) Select Preferences. Click on WWW.

3) Select the Web Graphics tab.

4) Uncheck the box for Use Compressed Graphics.

★ The files in Temporary Internet Files can be deleted for clearing the web cache.