II. Read the text and decide which type of graphics software is best for these users

1 a person who wants to edit photos at home

2 an economist who wants to present statistics in a form that can be easily understood

3 engineers who need to design the interior and exterior of a new aeroplane

4 a company which needs to design and publish a magazine

5 an artist who wants to produce illustrations and freehand drawings for a book

6 an organization that needs to make maps and 3D virtual models of the surface of the Earth

7 computer animators who make movies like Toy Story and Shrek

8 a mathematician who wants to make fractal shapes of natural phenomena

III. Complete the sentences with words from the box.

1. Painting programs work by giving a colour to each pixel in an image, creating a.__________ Unlike vector graphics, the image is a single layer, so once something is painted, it becomes part of the whole picture.

2. In painting programs and image editors._________ are special effects that can be applied to a picture, including drop shadows. textures, distortions, etc.

3. The._________ model is the simplest interpretation of a true three-dimensional object. Here the object is represented by its edges and contours and is therefore similar in form to a normal engineering drawing or sketch.

4. __________ adds textures to each surface, and generates realistic reflections, shadows

and highlights.

5. Most illustration packages come with a bundle of resources that include ready-made __________ images and a selection of fonts.

6._________ are geometrical patterns that are repeated at a small scale to generate

irregular shapes, some of which are similar to objects in nature.

IV. Look at the Windows Paint toolbox and find the tools that match these definitions

1. This is like a magnifying glass which changes your view of a drawing.

2. This brush lets you paint in different shapes and patterns.

3. This is used to draw curves in different thicknesses.

4. This rubs out the part of the picture you drag it over.

5. This tool lets you pick a colour from an area of an image, instead of choosing tricolour from the colour palette.

6. This tool is used to fill a shape with a colour of your choice.

7. This makes straight lines.

8. This basic tool is used to draw freehand, i.e. to draw free-form shapes.

9. This group of tools is used for drawing shapes: rectangles, ellipses and polygons.

10. This produces individual pixels of colour in a spray pattern.

11. These tools let you make rectangular or freehand selections around the things you want to select.

12. This is used to type text.

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