I got an email from a Design student the other
day and I remembered that the main objective of these pages
was to produce design pages which did not actually talk too
much about the actual technological implementation. Recent,
though, I've been talking about implementations in Macromedia
Flash and Director (yuk!), so I've decided to go back to fundamentals
for this design page. An important tool in design is a camera,
as you can get your images exactly as you want them, and they
are copyright free.
As I've said in the last few pages, I'm hooked on designing for mobile
devices. Thus let's look at creating a movie which sits within a PDA. First in
Figure 1 we take a picture of the PDA. I've taken the photograph on a white background,
as this makes it easier to get rid of the background. Next, in Figure 2, I've
taken away the background with the magic wand, and I've also cut out the central
display. Next I've cut out the four main elements for the graphic:
 
| 
Figure 1: Photograph of my Pocket PC
Figure
2: Surounding parts of the graphic, and within the graphic, are cut away. |
