Graphics
Due by Midnight on May 22, 2001 with Assignment 4 - Protocols
Graphics - 8 points
STAIR (you may combine this with Assignment 4) - 2 points

The Purpose of This Assignment Is To:

• help you apply STAIR to a new type of software
• ensure that you can do the minimal graphic editing functions
• prepare you with the graphic skills you will need on the web

Create ONE original and at least one and up to five finished graphics for use on the web. You should provide evidence of the following techniques (deduction of 1 point for each item missed):

• resizing an image
• rotation of at least 90 degrees
• transparency
• copy and paste image fragments
• use of touch-up filters

1. You should develop a complete graphic, but you need not do it all by hand. It can either be totally new, or based on one or more 'raw' images. Source images can come from scanned photos, digital cameras, public-domain images on the web, or original work. Even though they are 'raw' the image still needs to be a gif or a jpeg. If an application other than a web browser is needed to view the image, it will not be graded.

2. You must submit a 'before' as well as a finished work which must be 'web ready'. The final graphic(s) must also be "web-ready." In other words, they need to be gif or jpeg (and ONLY gif or jpeg).

3. Also create PLAIN TEXT file called stairgraphics.txt that includes a description in STAIR format of the various manipulations you did on the image, and describes which file is the final image.

RELAX! Just follow the instructions Andy gives you and this will be an easy assignment. Plus this assignment is also done in conjunction with learning protocols. Thus you will be loading these graphics onto the web. So do NOT email us with graphics and don't put disks in my mailbox.

You may place up to SIX graphics on the Web but ONE of those graphics needs to be marked as the original so I can judge what work you did to modify it.

Images are defined as intellectual property, and they can be owned. They can also be stolen. You have the obligation to respect copyright laws in ANY form of scholarly activity, including this one. If you use any intellectual property that belongs to someone else you must cite the original source if you can. There are some excellent public domain resources, and many image owners will gladly let you use their images, but you need to secure that permission.

As I have said in class many times, you MUST cite your source for your images. If you made them great! Credit yourself. If you got them from any other source, even a free web graphics site, you must credit them. You can put the credits in your STAIR. THANKS! - Margaret

To see what I did for this assignment go to and check out the first few graphics links.