[Yr11 Information Technology] Outcome 2 help

[Kim Gration]

Hi there folks,

I must admit up front that I have little working knowledge or sufficient
licences of Flash . . . so it was not really an option for us.

I have just started the task today with my students and we are using Adobe
PhotoShop 5.5 in combination with a shareware product called GIF
Construction Set Professional . . . neither of them are particulary new
products!

GIF Construction Set Pro is a basic program to learn and use, though it is
a little clandestine and is limited in what you can do with it compared to
a bells and whistles product like Flash.

Basically, the process is as follows:

In PhotoShop:
- create a new file with a width of 24 cm, height of 16 cm and 72
pixels/inch resolution (i.e. roughly the printable size on an A4 page).
- put your first shape in the middle of the screen (e.g. a circle by using
the circular marquee tool, click the Edit menu, select Stroke, a stroke
width of 2 pixels, then click OK).
- save this file as a given name (e.g. DFD1) as a GIF or JPG into a
precreated folder.
- put a label inside the shape using the text tool.
- save this file as the next in the sequence (e.g. DFD2) into the same
folder.
- draw your next item (e.g. an arrow, another shape etc.) and resave and
so on, incrementing the number on the end the filename each time until you
have finished the DFD.
- each time you save you are creating an additional frame for the animation.

Open GIF Construction Set Pro and:
- choose Animation Wizard from the File menu, choose all the defaults
(except for loop continuously and delay (e.g. 1 second)) until you get to
the window where you choose the files that you require in the animation.
- click the Choose File button, navigate to the precreated folder and
select the first file (e.g. DFD1), click OK, then the Choose File button
again, select the second file (e.g. DFD2), click OK etc. You may need to
alter the file type setting (e.g. if you had saved as JPEG in PhotoShop)
as you do this.
- once you have chosen all the files you want to use in the animation,
click next and then finish.
- the animation will be produced for you. You can preview it using the
cool black sunglasses icon in the shortcut bar. When happy with it simply
save and you're done.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Kim

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Kim Gration
ICT Manager
Myrtleford Secondary College
http://www.myrtlefordsc.vic.edu.au


> I’m really stuck on what to do with the following - Annotate visual
> representations of networks to show storage points, processing points and
> security points and, where appropriate, animate the representations to
> show data flows.
>
> Can someone please share what they are doing for the “animate” part?  I’m
> desperate for some ideas!
>
> Thanks
>
> Kim Hewlett
> Technology Coordinator
> Wheelers Hill Secondary College
> e: hw at whsc.vic.edu.au
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