MAPEH ARTS 6

 COMPUTER SOFTWARE

Computer Software

Software is a collection of instructions that enable the user to interact with a computer, its hardware, or perform tasks. Without software, most computers would be useless.

Three Types of Computer Software:

1. Systems Software or Operating system is the software used by the computer to translate inputs from various sources into a language which a machine can understand. It coordinates the different hardware components of a computer. Example is the Microsoft.

 2. Programming Software is a kind of computer software which is used exclusively by computer programmers.

3. Application Software is used to interact with a computer. Popular examples of application software are the Microsoft Office suite which includes Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Applications we use to connect to the internet are internet explorer and Mozilla Firefox.

How important is computer software in making painting today?

The first step is drawing your image. Then scan it into your computer and finally, use a computer program to transform your work by cropping, editing, enhancing, lightening, darkening, shading, adding color, layering, styling, or just about any other editing graphic you can think of.

To get started with digital painting, the following could be of great help.

1. GIMP - a free and open-source raster graphics editor used for image retouching and editing.

2. Photo Editor - an application used for editing photos.

3. Photoshop - turn on photos into fantastical works of art. Crop, combine retouch and restore.

4. Paint (windows) - for Laptop / desktop PC. A simple raster graphics editor that gas been included with all version of Microsoft windows.

5. Inkscape - a professional quality vector graphics software which runs on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows desktop computers.

Here are some software tools used in digital printing.

The software above has several tools that provide all the colors that is needed

to make the coloring in your painting easy.

1. Burn Tool - darkens the image. Just drag the tool over the image.

2. Crop Tool - changes the size of the image. Select the area you want to crop and press enter.

3. Eraser Tool - erases part of the image in a certain layer by flattening the image or go through every layer to delete the part.

4. Type Tool - puts texts in a picture.

5. Pencil Tool and Brush Tool - these tools draw or paint a line. To change the color of the paint brush, click on the color picker.

✓ Computer Software is a collection of instructions that enable the user to interact with a computer, it’s hardware, or perform tasks. Without software, most computers would be useless.

✓ The three types of Software are:

1. Systems Software

2. Application Software

3. Programming Software

✓ Computer software usually used in painting or logo designing are:

1. MS Paint

2. Photoshop

3. Inkscape

4. GIMP

5. Photo Editor

✓ Some of the software tools in phot/ picture editing are:

1. Eraser Tool

2. Pencil and Brush Tool

3. Type Tool

4. Crop Tool

5. Burn Tool

 Answer the following questions. (5 pts. each) 1/2 sheet of paper

1. What is a computer software?

2. What are computer software tools used in photo/picture editing?