Chapter 04: Specialized Application Software
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• Describe graphics software, including desktop publishing, image editors, illustration programs, image galleries, and graphics suites • Discuss audio and video editing software • Describe multimedia, including links, buttons,
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• Explain Web authoring, Web site design, and Web authoring programs • Describe artificial intelligence, including virtual reality, knowledge-based systems, and robotics • Discuss cell phone
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• Specialized applications let users perform advanced computing tasks • Robots provide security and assistance in homes • Competent end users need to be aware of
specialized applications
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• Graphics Programs • Audio and Video Software • Multimedia Programs • Web Authoring Programs
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• Desktop publishing • Image editors • Illustration programs
• Image galleries
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• Programs that allow you to create publications – Mix text and graphics – Professional quality • Popular programs – Adobe InDesign Making IT Work for You for Work IT Making – Microsoft Publisher – QuarkXPress
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• Programs for creating and editing bitmap images – Bitmap images use dots or pixels to represent an image – Bitmap images are also called raster images • Popular programs – Paint.NET
– Adobe Photoshop Making IT Work for You for Work IT Making
: : – Corel Paint Shop Pro 2012
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• Programs used to create & edit vector images • Drawing programs • Vector images use geometric shapes or objects • Popular programs Vector Image
– Adobe Illustrator Bitmap Image Making IT Work for You for Work IT Making – Inkscape – CorelDRAW
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• Libraries of electronic images • Used for a variety of applications • Two basic types
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• Bundled graphic programs • Can buy a larger variety of graphics programs at a lower cost • CorelDRAW Graphics Suite – Five individual programs
Making IT Work for You for Work IT Making – Library of clip art, media clips & fonts
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• Video editing software – Enhance digital video footage using Apple's iMovie or Windows Movie Maker • Audio editing software
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• Capture, edit, and produce Videos
• Create a DVD or upload to YouTube
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• The integration of a variety of media into one presentation – Video – Music
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Links can be to… – Video – Sound – Graphics – Text Files Making IT Work for You for Work IT Making • Buttons are links and provide the ability to navigate through
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• Special programs used to create multimedia presentations • Bring together all the video, audio, graphics, and text elements
• Popular programs Making IT Work for You for Work IT Making : : – Adobe Director
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• Corporations use the Web to reach new customers • Many individuals create their own personal sites, called Web logs or blogs, to keep in touch with friends and family • Web Site Design • Web Authoring
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• Interactive multimedia form of communication – Create a graphical map of overall content – Add multimedia elements like animation
• Macromedia's Flash
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• Known as Web page editors or HTML editors – Provide support for Web site design – Creates HTML coding • Popular programs – Adobe Dreamweaver Making IT Work for You for Work IT Making – NetObjects Fusion – Microsoft Expression
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• Attempts to simulate human senses, thought processes, and actions • Designed to help people and organizations become more productive • Three areas of AI
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– Robotics Computing EssentialsComputing
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• Artificial or simulated reality – Generated in 3-D by a computer – Commonly known as VR, artificial reality,
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• Artificial intelligence that uses a database for assistance • Database is known as a knowledge base
• Many use "fuzzy logic"
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• The field of study concerned with using robots • Robots are computer-controlled machines – Mimic the motor activities of living things – Four types of robots • Perception system robots Making IT Work for You for Work IT Making • Industrial robots • Mobile robots • Household robots
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• Cell phone apps are add-on features that perform a variety of tasks (e.g., address books, to-do lists, and alarms) – Over 10,000 apps for the iPhone alone
• App stores are Web sites Making IT Work for You for Work IT Making : : that allow you to download
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• Describe graphics, including desktop publishers, image editors, illustration programs, image galleries, and graphics suites.
• Discuss audio and video editing software. Making IT Work for You for Work IT Making
• What is multimedia? Discuss interactivity, links,
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• Describe Web authoring, including Web site design and Web authoring programs.
• Discuss three areas of artificial intelligence.
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