A Multimedia Portfolio by Austin Guthals

· proj1_Austin.jpg – This is a jpeg file. I originally started with a picture of a boat and two characters. One character was placed in front of the boat and the other was placed behind the boat. I used Adobe Photoshop 5.0 to do this. This was my first attempt. AustinTrial3.jpg is the final image. With this example I learned how to crop images, adjust the sensitivity of the cropping tool, how to add effects, how to manipulate layers, and how to compress an image.

· AustinPortfolioAnimation.html – This is a flash movie that displays static animated objects. The final object displayed is the second hand of a clock, this second hand is in an infinite loop. I used Flash 5 to create the animation. This file includes use of layers, motion and shape tweening, manipulation of the center of an object, basic scripting, frame rate to control effects, resizing and reshaping of objects, and changing brightness, tint, and alpha (opacity) of objects.

· AustinPortfolioSound.html – This is a flash movie that allows the user to play a song, stop the song, adjust volume, pan left, and pan right. Sliding bars are used to implement the volume and pan controls. The sliding bar gives the user an almost infinite adjustability of the effect. Flash 5 was used to create this file. This player implements rather advanced scripting (Action Script), compression of audio, creation of buttons, creation of sliding adjustment bars, and simple algorithms to set pan and volume from button position.

· AustinDomesticViolenceTItle.html – This is a flash movie that is part of a Domestic Abuse Prevention Application. It displays some facts and requires the user to click buttons to proceed. Flash 5 was used to create it. This required the use of multiple scenes, breaking apart text into objects, manipulating, animating, skewing, and color change of the text objects, and manipulation of frame and layer order.