Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:17:55 -0500 (CDT)
   From: Mark Jacobson <jacobson@cns.uni.edu>
     To: 810-022-01-fall@uni.edu
Subject: Chapter 4 Fireworks and Dreamweaver Polar Bears Friday...

Hi 022 students,

     Here is the page that reviews what we did today in the Friday, October 
23rd StudioIT 3 lab class.

    http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/22/ch4/polarBear.html

    http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/22/

     Fireworks - removing the background from a graphic (polar bear jpeg)
                 by using the following fireworks tools and techniques:

                 Bitmap tools:
                          Magic Wand tool,  (Tolerance and Edge settings
                                             set in Property Inspector).

                                              What is Anti-alias?
                          Eraser tool,
                                          Size setting,
                                          Edge setting,
                                          Shape setting, and
                                          Eraser opacity setting.

                 View tools:

                          Zoom tool       Zoom in is default,
                                          Alt key held down causes the
                                              LMB mouse button click to
                                              Zoom out.  You see + sign
                                              or a - sign when zoom tool
                                              is active tool.

                          Hand tool   Used to Pan or Track around the
                                         scene.  Usually used when we
                                         are zoomed in for close ups.

                 Optimize pallette    Window menu > Optimize command

                                      Note:  Optimize, History, and Align
                                             panels are grouped together,
                                             so you choose which tab
                                             to click to get to the one
                                             you need.

                                      See the web page for why the Optimize
                                      palette was needed.  (To make a
                                      transparent GIF).

        The IMG SRC tag was used to make a series of polar bears of
        different sizes, but we did it all through the property
        inspector (for DREAMWEAVER, i.e. for Dw).

        Horizontal Rulers (HR tag)  with noshading and pretty color and
                                    a width thicker than the usual default.

        H2 or H1 heading tags with CENTERing.

        Dw Insert menu, Image command.

        Dw Insert menu, Tag command.

    http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/22/

    http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/22/ch4/polarBear.html

    Have a great weekend!

    Mark

HOW PRACTICAL IS IT TO UNDERSTAND .. and . when you are working on your
                      web site on sunny.uni.edu or a similar web server?

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Study this example!
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pandora:~/web/22/ch4>  pwd

/home/jacobson/web/22/ch4

pandora:~/web/22/ch4>  mv  ~/email022PolarBears.txt   .

pandora:~/web/22/ch4> 

pandora:~/web/22/ch4> ls -a

.   _notes                  hand_fish.jpg  polarBear.html  wildlife.png
..  email022PolarBears.txt  polarBear.gif  polar_bear.jpg

pandora:~/web/22/ch4> 

     mv  ~/email022PolarBears.txt   .

         ~ always refers to the home directory, which is jacobson 

         . always refers to the current directory, which in this case
           is ch4, the folder inside of the 22 folder, which is inside
           of the web folder.  Finally the web folder is contained 
           inside of or is a child to the jacobson folder.

pandora: ~/web/22/ch4>  mv  ~/email022PolarBears.txt   .

         ~/               jacobson (the home directory)
           web/           web is child of jacobson, i.e. of ~
               22/        22 is child of web subdirectory
                  ch4>    ch4 is a child of the 22 subdirectory

         ~/               jacobson (the home directory is ~, i.e. is tilde)
           web/           jacobson (~) is .., parent of web
               22/        web is .., parent of 22
                  ch4>    22 folder is .., parent of ch4 folder

mv  ~/email022PolarBears.txt   .

    Move the file email022PolarBears.txt from the ~ home directory 

                                                            ---
              down to the . current directory, which is the ch4 folder.
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