Colour Theory and Image Compression (15th – 16th November)

Wednesday began with a lecture on Colour Theory. I have never looked at colour in so much detail before. The Colour wheel I’m sure will help me a lot over the next few years. I think I am coping quite well with all the new terms we learnt in the lecture but I’m sure my mind will go blank by next week as it always seems to when put on the spot.

In the afternoon we were able to concentrate on our assignment A3 back to basics. I was grateful for this time as I didn’t complete all the self study tasks I had set myself the previous week and was a little worried about catching up. I was also able to find a new cheaper web host for my delivery requirements and complete the competitive analysis.

I am not sure what is needed to be done to achieve merit grades, the feedback I got from the first was basically to improve everything especially more detailed research. I would like to get merit grades but also think I need to be realistic and realise I’m not at the required standard… not yet anyway.

Thursday started with a lecture on the new part to our A4 assignment, all about image compression. We have to compress four images using Gif, PNG or JPEG file types and evaluate the results. At first the essay we have to write seemed straight forward, get images find out what compression type is most suited that image and repeat this four times each part containing 250 words. After spending all afternoon writing down figures, creating graphs, changing images enough to get good screenshots and writing everything down in the sketch book I realise it is not that simple, as nothing has been so far on this course. Steve also said there are a couple of Red Herrings in the images we had to choose from and with my luck I’m sure to have picked at least one of them if not both.

Today was the first time I used Adobe Photoshop, I had just received a book about it in the post and I’m glad I did as in the next few weeks we go much more in-depth with the program so I’m sure it will come in very use full. It does seem like a tricky program to get your head around but like most things it will be a matter of putting the hours in and learning the basics first.