Digital+entertainment

=Strand 2.5 Home and Leisure: Digital Entertainment= (Films, photographs, music, arts, online and digital games, gambling, virtual worlds)

Past Exam Questions
Nov 2008 Paper 2 - Nov 2010 paper 2 -

News Articles
[|Finger Painting] (Ye Eun) Jorge Colombo, an American artist purchased iPad for his own entertainment. Because he is artist, he was interested in art applications and downloaded one called, "Brushes". Advantages he found are -He can finish one painting in less than an hour -can share with many people by uploading -No hesitation in painting because of "Undo" feature. Unlike real painting, he can try different things and just cancel some strokes by pressing Undo button -He can paint in the dark. Before ipad, he had to have flash light in the dark to paint. -Comfortable drawing and painting while traveling because pedestrians just assume that he is checking his email.

There is also a companion application called "Brush Viewer". This allows him to record each step of how Colombo composed the artwork. People can learn Colombo's techniques he used by watching the video.

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=**Image File Formats**=


 * GIF, JPG, PNG examples and explanations**

//**Table: Common Image File Formats **//  **JPEG 2000** || **Flashpix� 1.0.2** || **ImagePac, Photo CD** || **PNG 1.2 (Portable Network Graphics)�** || **PDF 1.4� (Portable Document Format)** || Lossy: JPEG || Lossless: LZW[2] || Lossy: JPEG Lossless:[3] || Uncompressed Lossless/Lossy: Wavelet || Uncompressed Lossy: JPEG || Lossy: “Visually lossless” Kodak proprietary format[4] || Lossless: Deflate, an LZ77 derivative || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Uncompressed Lossless: ITU-T.6, LZW. JBIG <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lossy: JPEG || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">JFIF: de facto standard[5] || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">ISO/IEC 15444 parts 1-6, 8-11 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Publicly available specification || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Proprietary || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">ISO 15948 (anticipated)[6] || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">De facto standard[7] || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">interlacing and transparency support by most Web browsers || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Progressive JPEG widely supported by Web browsers[13] || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Multiple resolutions, progressive display, tiling, region of interest coding and many other advanced features || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Provides multiple resolutions of each image; wide industry support, but limited current applications || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Provides 5 or 6 different resolutions of each image; unclear future || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">May replace GIF, though market penetration has been spotty || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Preferred for printing and viewing multipage documents; strong government use || [|Table: Common Image File Formats]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Name and Current Version** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**TIFF 6.0 (Tagged Image File Format)** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**GIF 89a (Graphics Interchange Format)** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**JPEG (Joint Photographic Expert Group)/JFIF (JPEG File Interchange Format)** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**JP2-JPX/**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Extension(s)** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">.tif, .tiff || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">.gif || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">.jpeg, jpg, .jif, .jfif || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">.jp2, .jpx, .j2k, .j2c || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">.fpx || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">.pcd || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">.png || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">.pdf ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Bit-depth(s)** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1-bit bitonal; 4- or 8-bit grayscale or palette color; up to 64-bit color[1] || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1-8 bit bitonal, grayscale, or color || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">8-bit grayscale; 24-bit color || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">supports up to 214 channels, each with 1-38 bits; gray or color || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">8-bit grayscale; 24 bit color || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">24-bit color || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1-48-bit; 1/2/4/8-bit palette color or grayscale, 16-bit grayscale, 24/48-bit truecolor || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4-bit grayscale; 8-bit color; up to 64-bit color support ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Compression** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Uncompressed Lossless: ITU-T.6, LZW, etc.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Standard/ Proprietary** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">De facto standard || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">De facto standard || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">JPEG: ISO 10918-1/2
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Color Mgmt.** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">RGB, Palette, YCbCr,[8] CMYK, CIE L*a*b* || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Palette || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">YCbCr || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Palette, YCbCr, RGB, sRGB, some ICC[[|9]] || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">PhotoYCC and NIF RGB,[10] ICC (optional) || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">PhotoYCC || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Palette, sRGB, ICC || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">RGB, YCbCr, CMYK ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Web Support** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Plug-in or external application || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Native since Microsoft� Internet Explorer 3, Netscape Navigator� 2 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Native since Microsoft� Internet Explorer 2, Netscape Navigator� 2 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Plug-in || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Plug-in || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Java™ applet or external application || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Native since Microsoft� Internet Explorer 4, Netscape� Navigator 4.04, (but still incomplete) || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Plug-in or external application ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Metadata Support** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Basic set of labeled tags || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Free-text comment field || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Free-text comment field || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Basic set of labeled tags[11] || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Extensive set of labeled tags || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Through external databases; no inherent metadata || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Basic set of labeled tags plus user-defined tags. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Basic set of labeled tags ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Comments** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Supports multiple images/file[12] || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">May be replaced by PNG;
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Home Page** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Unofficial TIFF home page || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">GIF specification || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">JPEG home page || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">JPEG 2000 home page || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">FlashPix home page || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Photo CD home page || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">PNG home page || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">PDF home page specs ||