Netscape Editor Basics, Scanning, and Paint Shop Pro

Tom Kelliher, CS297

Jan. 16, 1997

1. Grading criteria for home pages.

2. Make sure you've glanced over the material in Chapters 5--8 of Simpson and Projects 1--6 in Word Essentials.

3. Using the scanner.

4. Image properties.

5. Paint Shop Pro basics.

6. Netscape Navigator Gold Editor basics.

7. Hands-on exercises.

Using the Scanner

1. We should leave the scanner workstation ``open'' and establish a sign-up sheet for scanning.

2. Students can use instructor's workstation.

3. Logging-on is a little different on the instructor's machine.

Scanner instructions:

1. Carefully place your image on the scanner bed. ``Ground zero'' is the upper right-hand corner. The image should be placed face-down, as if you were using a copier.

2. Open Paint Shop Pro.

3. From File menu, choose Acquire. A scanner window should pop up.

4. The scanner should automatically preview your image. If not, click the Preview button.

5. Your image should now appear in the window. Notice that there is a tiny ``frame'' surrounding the image. Drag the frame to zero-in on the portion of the image in which you're interested.

6. You can use the Zoom button to zoom in on your selection and fine-tune your frame positioning.

7. Click the auto-exposure button (it's between the brightness and contrast controls.

8. If you'd prefer to see the size of your image in inches, open the Custom menu, choose Image size and change Units to inches.

9. You may now adjust the image size. If you think you'll be using more than one size of an image in your work, use the scanner to make a few copies of the images, each copy at a different size. Using the scanner to re-size the image produces the best results.

10. Click the Final button. Save the image to a folder on your N: drive. Photographs should be saved a JPEG files. Other images should be saved as GIF files. If these image formats aren't available, save your image as a TIFF file.

Some examples:

1. normal.tif --- 100% size, 3.56 x 4.91 in., 267 x 368 pixels.

2. little.tif --- 16% size (smallest possible), .57 x .78 in., 43 x 59 pixels. My ``thumbnail'' image.

3. big.tif --- 200% size, 7.11 x 9.81 in., 533 x 736 pixels.

Things to observe:

1. The accuracy of the measurements.

2. The sizes of the files.

Image Properties

1. Pixels.

2. Common resolutions:
   1. 640 x 480.

   2. 800 x 600.

   3. 1024 x 768.

3. Image size.

4. How much is visible to a viewer, without scrolling?

5. Formats:
   1. GIF --- interlaced, non-interlaced. Limited to color depth of 256. Compression controversy.

   2. JPEG --- Joint Photographs Expert Group. Higher color depths.

6. Color depth. Common values:
   1. 2 --- black and white.

   2. 16 --- simple artwork.

   3. 256 --- more complex artwork, photographs.

   4. 32K and higher --- photographs and JPEG.

7. Size of the image file. Time to load.

8. In-line and external images.

9. Thumbnail images.

10. Acquiring images:
    1. Drag and drop.

    2. Right-click, Save as.

    3. See end of Chapter 10 of Simpson for locations.

11. Copyrights.

Paint Shop Pro

1. Installation. The DLL problem.

2. Starting. Shareware. Freeware, commercial software.

3. See Chapter 14 of Simpson.

4. Observe:
   1. Opening an image file.

   2. Saving an image file. File formats. Interlaced GIF.

   3. Using the browser to view results.

   4. Flip, mirror, rotate.

   5. Filters. Minimum color depth.

   6. Filter browsing.

   7. Brightness, contrast.

   8. Negative, grayscale.

   9. Count colors used.

   10. Increasing, decreasing color depth.

   11. Painting.

Netscape Navigator Gold Editor basics

Familiarize yourselves:

1. Starting new pages. Saving.

2. Opening existing pages.

3. The various bars and buttons (pp. 107, 108).

4. Navigating around the page:
   1. Home

   2. End

   3. Ctrl-Home

   4. Ctrl-End

5. Select then do model.

6. Line breaks versus paragraph.

7. Selecting:
   1. Universal: drag over desired selection.

   2. Another universal: click one end, go to other end, Shift-click.

   3. Selecting a line.

   4. Selecting a word (double).

   5. Selecting a paragraph (double).

8. From the Edit menu: Undo, Redo.

9. Also from the Edit menu: Cut, Copy, Paste. Copying versus moving.

10. From the View menu: Paragraph marks, Document source.