Class Notes, November 8

Computer Graphics

-Computer generated images
-Film
-Animated photo realism
-Special effects

I use a lot of computer graphics with my job at the newspaper. Each week, I would have to work with an assortment of design and layout that involved creative computer generated images. I did not have to work with many animated photo's in the news section, but I did work with special effects in certain photographs. There were things we had to alter in certain photographs on the computer before they were submitted for layout to make them look appropriate for what we were using them for. Some stories called for black and white photographs while others needed color photographs.

Our graphics department worked closely with computer graphics, and it was in watching them over their shoulders that I really learned to appreciate what sort of things they were creating. Computer graphics can range from video games, to computer games, to newspaper pages.These messages that we create through computer graphics and other technology help our staff communicate certain messages to our audience, whether they're cartoons, political graphics, or photographs.