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Software
Projects and exercises for this course are to be developed and completed with the software applications that the Visual Studies Department will make available on the computers in the department's labs:
  • Adobe Flash CS3 for exercises and interactive multimedia projects.
  • ActionScrpt 3.0: Basic ActionScript is essential for any interactivity with Flash. This course will introduce to you basic ActionScript 3.0. ActionScript 3.0 is significantly different and more challenging to use than ActionScript 2.0, however it offers better optomized software, enabling better contol, programming consistency and much faster processing.
  • Adobe Illustrator CS3 for exploring typography variations.
  • Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 for developing web sites.
  • Adobe Photoshop CS3 for scanning and preparing images.
  • Microsoft Word for processing text.

The Visual Studies Department provices access to Macintosh only versions of the above software, and schedules ample lab time in the department's computer labs, computer classroom, CFA 136 and the open access lab, CFA142.

You are not permitted to copy commercial software applications from the department's computers.

You may wish to purchase and work with Macintosh or PC versions of this software. However, if you need to use other platforms, such as a PC, you must convert your PC files to Macintosh files before critiques and before submitting your final projects. Be sure that the files you submit on the server are Macintosh files.

Before each critique, check to see that the files you generated will run on the Art Department's presentation computers.