What it is: “IrfanView is a fast and compact image viewer/converter. It is trying to be simple for beginners and powerful for professionals.” —Irfan Skiljen, developer
What it does: “…can view, edit, and convert image files and play video/audio files. It is noted for its small size, speed, ease of use, and ability to handle a wide variety of graphic file formats, and has some image creation and painting capabilities.” (from Wikipedia.org’s IrfanView page)
My cellphone quit working and it has a lot of photos I want to keep. How do I save them?
One easy solution is to take the camera’s memory card and a flash drive or blank DVD to the Media Development Center (213 Hale Library). Use one of the card readers there to transfer photos and videos to your media. Staff consultants are on hand to walk you through the process.
Memory card readers in the MDC: A GGI Gear card (left), and a SanDisk ImageMate (right) with four media slots
The editors couldn’t resist sharing a picture from Saturday’s (Sept. 25) thunderstorm about three minutes into the start of the K-State football game in Manhattan. The picture below was taken by Eric Dover, manager of Client Services in iTAC, using an iPhone 4. It illustrates the advantages of high-quality cameras in newer cellphone technology.
(Editor’s note: This is the third in a series on the Media Development Center’s new green screen, which is available for K-State students, faculty, and staff to use on still images and video.)
The third and last segment provides a brief overview of how to “key” video using a green screen. The “chroma-key” feature is available on virtually all commercial video-editing software programs. This segment will highlight how to use Sony Vegas 8 to create the “green screen” effects.
(Editor’s note: This is the second in a series on the Media Development Center’s new green screen, which is available for K-State students, faculty, and staff to use on still images and video.)
This segment will address how to edit still images to change the background for the green-screen effects.
(Editor’s note: This is the first in a series on the Media Development Center’s new green screen, which is available for K-State students, faculty, and staff to use on still images and video.)
People who go to the Media Development Center (MDC), 214 Hale Library, may have noticed a large green (or blue) screen near the entryway in the past few months. This is known colloquially as a “green screen” because it allows graphic artists and video editors to change the backgrounds of images. For example, this is the tool that allows meteorologists to share information on moving weather systems.
A green screen is used in professional broadcast television studios to capture a person or people in the foreground while the background image may be dynamic. Then, the background may be “keyed” (chroma-keyed) or eliminated, and different backgrounds put into the place of the green/blue screen.
New green screen (blue on reverse side) with lights for K-Staters to use in the Media Development Center
