Gif Colors and Quality

Gifs are an indexed color file format. By being indexed color it means they only go up to 256 colors which is far from the 16.7 million colors of RGB.

But because you have so few colors it brings the size of the image down a great deal. Even within these two indexed color Gif images to the left the sizes are different.

The Bottom one has 200 different colors while the top only has 6. This means the top image has a much smaller size, with the top image being 8kb and the bottom one being 30kb.

JPG Compression and File Size

JPGs are a semi useful file type. When you save an image as a JGP you reduce the quality of the image which is bayd, but you get a much smaller file which is good for delivery to the internet or another person. Ideally we wouldn't want to do this but it's a necessary evil. You also have the option when you ask Photoshop to save for the Web to reduce the quality even further then it normally would. The images up top from left to right have their quality set at 0%, 60% and 100% detail preserved. Again we wouldn't normally want to do this but when you have to make an image that can be accessed by every one (including people still using computers from the 1990s) you have to sometimes make sacrifices.

Compositing

This image was made using several other images which where modified in Photoshop. Each image had undesirable aspects for this image removed from it, mainly the backgrounds.
The modifications where made using several selection tools but most predominantly the Magic Wand Tool. The Magic Wand Tool selects in a nice large area and makes precise selections at the same time very quickly. For the mistakes I use the Lasso Tool to make corrections. Holding shift let me add selections missed by the Magic Wand Tool and Holding Option let me remove selections that shouldn't have been made. I the copied and pasted the desired section of the images I harvested into a new image with each new addition to the image getting its own 'layer'. The layers act like an image in real life would. When you cut an image up in real life and layer them the images underneath are visible through the negative space and its the same with the Photoshop layers. After resizing and placing the images where I wanted them I saved my new image and posted it here, hope you enjoy it.

Selection Tools

The Elliptical Marquee Tool

This tool is used to make selections in an elliptical area. 

The Rectangular Marquee tool
This tool is use to make selections in a rectangular area

 

 The Lasso Tool

This will make a selection in an area drawn by the mouse.

 

The Magic Wand Tool

 This tool will make a selection based on the difference in the colors of pixels in an area.

 

The Polygonal Lasso Tool

This tool will make a selection in an area drawn with the points 

The Magnetic Lasso Tool
This will make a selection in an area drawn by the mouse based on the color diferance of the pixels being run over by the mouse.

Simiotics Logo

Discussion

I chose the Mozilla Firefox Logo for my logo. It consists of a Fox that is half fox Half fire curling around a globe. The Colors of the ox are several colors of red, orange, and yellow with touches of white. The globe is two colors of blue with a bit of white shading at the top.

 

Specific Symbols, Origin, and Meaning

Firefox started its life as the Phoenix Project for the Mozilla Corporation for people who wanted an open sourced, customizable web rouser that isn’t bogged down with preinstalled apps. It was named the Phoenix Project to represent rising from the ashes of Netscape. But due to legal pressure from another company Mozilla changed the name to Firebird to Mozilla Firebird to its final name Mozilla Firefox. They chose Firefox after the nickname of the Red Panda and to keep with the raising fire creature theme. The globe it curls around is representative of their global presence and their ability to connect the people of the world with each other.

The Semiotic Category

This symbol is very much a Symbolic one. From the fire Phoenix Fox raising from the ashes of its predecessor Netscape to its curling around the world delivering inter net to all this symbol stands for fast custom and good internet.