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| What is saturation and how do you increase it in adobe programs? |
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purity of color; lower saturation = more gray, higher = less gray.
to increase, go right in color picker. |
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| How do do you increase brightness in adobe programs? |
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| brightness= up-down direction in color picker. highest level of brightness is at top of color picker. higher brightness=more white/light |
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--instead of 2 values (1 or 0), can have one of 16 possible values
-used for colors
-ex: #9ad5ff – first 2 represent red, 2nd 2 represent green, 3rd 2 represent blue |
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| paths are composed of what two components? |
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| how many kinds of anchors and segments are there? |
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| two kinds: ones that are angular and ones that are curved |
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| how do you increase curvature of a path? |
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-Bezier curves
-click anchor to show ‘handles’, adjust curvature by adjusting handles |
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| what is the primary way that videos are delivered on the web? |
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flash
(you can also deliver videos in html5 instead of flash (video tag)) |
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| the html5 tag that is used to indicate the most important content of a webpage is what? |
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| -the section tag. –indicates the primary content of the page |
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| ideally html is used to indicate delivery, presentation, behavior, or content? |
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| -content. (css indicates presentation and behavior) |
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| how many different kinds of frames are there in flash? |
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-two: frames and keyframes
-keyframes indicate where all the things should be on the stage in that moment in time
-regular frames are bridges between keyframes (you dont move anything within these frames, flash automatically does it for you with regular frames. ) regular frames = tween frames. tween frames animate between keyframes |
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| block elements vs inline elements |
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-block elements take up as much width as possible (full width of browser) and have a built-in line break
-inline elements are only as wide as the stuff (e.g. text) inside of it and don’t have built-in line break |
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| how do you stack block elements horizontally in your code for a webpage? |
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| -using the float property |
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| “div.clear: both” does what? |
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| forces the footer to sit below block elements in the middle of the page |
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| what are the kinds of tweens you can do in flash? |
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classic, motion, shape tweens
-motion gives you more options with the motion- e.g., draw a path, adjust a path
-classic, motion goes in a straight line
-shape tween: morphing of shapes. can give shape hints to indicate motion/what parts morph into what |
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| pencil tool in indesign, photoshop, and flash does what? |
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| draws freehand lines or paths |
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| -makes paths by making anchors for path. click to make anchors |
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| why do we use compression formats like gif png and jpeg? |
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| -to make the webpage load more quickly |
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| why do you choose one compression format over the other |
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-you use whichever format maintains the quality of the image the best way while still reducing the file size
-same with audio compression formats (mp3, wav, aiff...) |
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| how many different color values can you have in an 8-bit image? |
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-256. (2^8)
-means every channel has 256 possible values (red has 256 possible values, green, blue etc) |
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| LAME is an open source tool for creating what? |
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| -set of colors that you can save to open them in any program to make an image |
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| OS X is based on which other operating system? |
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| -no one, it is open sourced. “copy left” free version of unix (unix is not free but a proprietary operating system) |
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| what does the File panel in Dreamweaver do? |
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-shows all the files in your document
-has the ability to transfer your files to the server (don’t need to use sftp like fetch) |
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| can you crop an image in Dreamweaver? |
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| -yes. Dreamweaver has a crop tool |
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| True or False: shape tweening in flash can only be done with symbols? |
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| -false. symbols are non-editable shapes; you can’t change the shape of a symbol |
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| in flash, can you convert any image/object you want into a symbol? |
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| -yes. right-click and click ‘convert to symbol’ |
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| in flash, what is the difference between merge mode and object mode? |
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-merge mode is destructive; when you overlap 2 elements, the one on the bottom layer will be irreversibly chopped
-in merge mode, when you draw a shape with a fill and stroke, the fill and stroke are considered two separate pieces. in object mode they are considered one object |
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| some examples of structural elements in HTML? |
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| tag, footer tag, section, article, etc... |
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the fundamental tag in html document:
html, the opening tag (html with <>) |
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| What are the two sections that must be in the html document? |
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| what are some common block elements? |
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| what are some common inline elements? |
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| in CSS, what is the difference between class and id? |
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| class can correspond to one or multiple elements. id only corresponds to one. |
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| putting everything in the body within a div container does what? |
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| makes it easy to control the spacing of the entire body page width -can apply a fixed width so text doesnt span across very wide when the browser window is maximized. |
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| In Dreamweaver, what does the Insert panel do? |
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| can insert text, paragraphs, italicize, etc. in design mode. |
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| What is a sample rate (audio) and difference between a high and low sample rate? |
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| how many times/second you take the air pressure and convert in into digital format. higher sample rate = better approximation of the original wave. |
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| what is the sample rate for CDs? |
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What is 3 bit color?
what is 3 bit sound? |
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3 bit color = 8 possible colors (2^3=8)
3 bit sound = 8 possible values in taking sound |
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| what is bit rate (or bit depth) |
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| how many possible values of sampling that you can store |
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| what channel affects transparency? |
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| what is the frame rate of Flash? |
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| how many bits are in a byte? |
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| How many possible values can an 8-bit number have? |
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| In UNIX-based systems, the ls –la command lists what? |
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| all files, hidden and non-hidden |
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| In UNIX-based systems, the cp command does what? |
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| copies a file from a source to a destination |
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| In UNIX-based systems, the cd command does what? |
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| changes the current working directory to a specific folder |
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| In UNIX-based systems, the chmod a+x command means what? |
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| give the owner, group, and others execute permissions |
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| 1 point is how many picas? |
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| The underlying core layer of software/most basic layer of software (e.g., operating system) |
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