Text Editing and Word Processing Tools
OCR Software
Painting and Drawing tools
3-D Modeling and Animation Tools
Image-Editing Tools
Sound Editing Tools
Animation, Video and Digital Movie Tools
Word processor such as Microsoft Word and
WordPerfect are powerful applications with
spellcheckers, table formatters,
thesauruses, and prebuilt templates
Embed multimedia elements to get more
attractive and powerful application
Turns bitmapped characters into electronically
recognizable ASCII text.
Scanner is used to create images. OCR software
breaks the scanned image into chunks according to
text or graphics content, by examining the texture
and density of areas of the bitmap and by detecting
edges.
Text are converted to ASCII characters using
probability and expert system algorithms.
Such as Photoshop, Fireworks and Painter are
dedicated to produce crafted several type of images
Drawing tools such as CorelDraw, FreeHand,
Illustrator, Designer and Canvas are dedicated to
produce vector based line art
-An GUI with pull-down menus status bars, palette
control and dialog boxes for quick, logical selection
-Scalable dimensions features to resize, stretch
and distort images
Paint tools to create geometric shapes
Ability to pour a color, pattern or gradient
Customizable pen and brush shapes and sizes
Ability to paint with patterns and clip art
Tool to sample color
Autotrace tool to turn bitmap shapes into vector-based
outlines
Support for scalable text fonts and drop shadows
Multiple undo capabilities, to let you try again
History function for redoing effects, drawing, and text
Property inspector
Screen capture facility
Painting features such as smoothing, airbrushing, washing
colors blending and masking
Support for special effect plug-ins
Object and layering capabilities
Zooming to magnify pixel editing
Color and grayscale image depths
Color management and dithering capability
among color depths using various color
models such as RGB,HSB, and CMYK
File importing and exporting capability for
image formats
3-D modeling software makes object
rendered in perspective appear more
realistic
Some powerful 3-d modeling packages are
AutoDesk’s Discreet, Strata Vision’s 3D,
Specular’s LogoMotion and Infini-D etc.
Support’s export features enabling to save
a moving view as QuickTime or AVI
animation file
Multiple windows to view model in each
dimension ,from the camera perspective and in a
rendered view
Drag and drop
Ability to create and sculpt organic objects from
scratch
Lathe and extrude features
Realistic effects such as transparency, shadowing,
and fog
Ability to add spot, local and global lights to place
them and manipulate for lighting effects
Unlimited cameras with focal length control
Ability to draw spline-based paths for animation
Tools for enhancing and retouching existing images.
Supports multiple windows
Conversion feature for image–data types and
industry standard file formats
Direct input of images from scanner and video
sources
Employment of a virtual memory scheme
Selection tools –rectangles, magic wand etc
Image and balance controls
Filters for special effects such as crystallize, dry
brush etc
Support for special effect plug-ins
Ability to design in layers that can be combined,
hidden and reordered
To warp, twist, shadow cut ,diffuse and filter
the image for visual effects
HotTEXT- turns text into 3-D objects
EasyCandy offers set of filters
Corel to make fractal images
By drawing a representation of a sound in
fine increments, whether a score or a
waveform.
To make sound effects and install as system
beeps
Sequences of bitmapped graphic scenes,
rapidly played back
Video formats- to store and play digitized
video available with QuickTime and AVI.
Algorithms to control the amount of
information per video frame that is sent to
screen, which rate new frames should be
displayed
Integrates sound, text animation and video
Used as a plug-in for IE and Netscape
Three elements make up QuickTime:
- QuickTime movie file format
- QuickTime Media Abstraction Layer
- QuickTime media services
Audio-Video Interleaved (AVI), to display
Audio and Video sequences
Video is interleaved with audio data within
the file that contains the motion sequence
Features - playback from hard disk
- playback with limited memory
- quick loading
- video compression
