SESSION 19: IMAGES

PART 1: IMAGE FORMATSACTIVITY

• JPEG: (short for Joint Photographic Experts Group) images are “full-color images that dedicate at least 24 bits of memory to each pixel, resulting in images that can incorporate 16.8 million colors,” and are frequently referenced by their file extension, JPG

• GIF:  (Graphics Interchange Format) only display a maximum of 256 colors; as a result, GIFs are great for images with simple illustrations and blocks of colors, like logos and icons, but probably not the best option for photographs.

• PNG:(Portable Network Graphics), offer a wide range of attractive features, including “a full range of color depths, support for sophisticated image transparency, better interlacing, and automatic corrections for display monitor gamma

b) Which image format preserves the quality better when it is compressed?JPEG image format preserves the quality better when its compressed 
PART 2: ORGANIZING IMAGES
 The web provides us with many different tools to organize our photos and albums. ACTIVITY:
1.Find pictures of the school in the internet, and create a slideshow (album) with them, using FLICKR. Then upload into your blog.
1.Find pictures of the school in the internet, and create a slideshow (album) with them, using FLICKR. Then upload into your blog.
2. View the tutorial on how to use Slideshare.

a) Find out the most common formats for images and write a short description of the features of each of themThere are many formats of images, some of them are:

c) Which formats are more suitable for web design? JPEG, GIF, PNG and BMP are the formats more suitable for web design

Slideshare allows you to make slide presentations of powerpoint and pdf files. If you have a power point presentation about a school subject, upload it to Slideshare. Or create a short power point (max. 3 slides) about a topic you like. Then embed it in your blog.