Draw, Paint, Animate, Create and Teach!
Express Yourself!
corefx is a creative expression software program that includes draw, paint, animate and other artistic and document creation functions. With three skill levels to choose from, the extensive but easy to use creative tools suit the young novice computer user as well as the experienced graphics artist. Corefx contains clipart and other images for creating stories and projects. corefx also offers many cross-curricular teaching applications.
FEATURES
Choose a Level and Learn! - corefx has three pre-configured interfaces to tailor the software to the needs of a young Basic user, a Junior user and a confident Advanced user. It’s also easy to customize the corefx toolbar!
Progressive Undo and Redo allow all users to undo (step by step) the whole of their painting or drawing to try again and again until they are satisfied with the results they have achieved.
The corefx Stamp Library provides hundreds of curriculum relevant images. Stamps can be used as single images or sequences of images, can be resized, flipped, skewed and transformed in many different ways. Users may create and save their own corefx artwork as stamps into their own stamp library for future use.
The Circle, Rectangle, Star, Polygon and Spline Tools allow a rich range of shape construction when creating images.
The corefx Symmetry Tools offer two and four way symmetry, and full control over how the symmetry is applied - both when using the painting tools and also when working with stamps, effects, textures, motifs and text.
The corefx Pattern Editor allows the learner to experiment with and apply a range of pattern and tiling effects, in a wide range of combinations. The Background Texture Chooser lets the user apply media with a range of textured background effects, to simulate different paper types and media combinations
The corefx Effects Tools allow areas of your image to be smeared, lightened, darkened sharpened, softened and outlined in a simple, intuitive fashion.
Tools and Special Effects!
- Crayons
- Oil Pastels
- Pencils
- Charcoal
- Felt pens
- Chalks
- Acrylic paints
- Poster paints
- Watercolor paints
- Airbrush sprays
Realistic Media Effects!
The rich range of realistic natural media effects allows all users to work intuitively with the same tools on the computer that they have already used in their real life Art and Design work.
The corefx Animation Toolbar allows sequences of images to be combined to generate moving images, using a film frame metaphor. See the previous frame as a shadow when you are drawing the current frame, and a range of cartoon elements lets all users experience the creation of exciting moving images in minutes.
corefx allows you to work with images from a wide variety of sources. Use digital photographs, image scans, web graphics and many other sources as your starting point. Any images you produce with corefx can easily be saved for use on the web (including animations), used in desktop publishing, presentation or word processing software or incorporated directly into other projects.
corefx Resources!
Get started with a self-running Program Tour that explains the tools and special effects at each corefx program Level. corefx also contains an instructional Activity Guide for users and a detailed Reference Guide for teachers and advanced users. Printed Guides are also available.
Choose a Level and Learn!
Three pre-configured interfaces tailor the software to the needs of a young Basic user, a Junior user and a confident Advanced user.
- Basic (Age 5 and up)
- Advanced (Age 13 and up)
- Junior (Age 9 and up)
corefx can easily be configured to meet any user’s specific needs. You can add or reduce the number of tools available to make the program as powerful or as simple to use as you wish.
The fully customizable interface constructor allows you to:
- Add or remove tools to meet any user’s abilities
- Increase/decrease tool button sizes
- Add or remove any menu options
- Move tools around; lock or unlock toolbars
- Create completely new toolbars with new functions
- Save and load your own customized settings for future use
How corefx can be used in the classroom
Here are just a couple of ideas for use of corefx by teachers and students:
Art and Design Classes:
Any creative project in art, animation, design, painting, etc.
Language Arts:
- Story Boards for English lessons and compositions.
- Graphical presentations of Literature.
- Graphical presentations of Grammar rules through animations.
Mathematics:
- Graphical and animated presentations of complex mathematical operations, i.e. animations of long division with and without a remainder.
- Illustration of tessellations, geometric shapes, symmetry etc.
Social Studies:
- Mapping projects.
- Animations of volcanoes erupting and other phenomena.
Special Education:
Can be used with a text editor to allow Special Education students to produce a great deal of interesting work, with emphasis on graphics rather than text.
Science:
- Animations of plants growing and fertilizing.
- Theories on Physics can illustrated with animations.
corefx Includes:
- 5 corefx Flash Viewlets offering animated instruction on how to use all three skill levels of the product.
- 160 page corefx Reference Manual (PDF in full-color online and black and white printed coil-bound books).
- 34 page corefx Activity Guide (PDF in full color online and full-color coil-bound printed versions) which serves a starting point for fun projects and activities.
- An integrated Online Help System, accessible at any time by pressing the F1 button.
SUMMARY
corefx is a tool for Art and Designs but it also can be incorporated into work for numerous other academic subjects or educational projects. It allows the teacher to imbed their instruction and lessons in a creative, engaging environment – whether science, math, social studies, language arts – the possibilities are endless.
corefx is suitable for beginners to advanced users of both computers and art and design. Right from the opening page, users will find the instructions and suggestions intuitive and very easy to use.
corefx supplies a comprehensive set of artists’ tools which can be applied directly onto the page. Charcoal, felt tips, coloring pencils and many more ca n be used individually, or mixed and blended to create a limitless number of effects. It is this blending of colors which is unique and quite frankly dazzling !
corefx also includes a comprehensive set of ready-made picture stamps which can be applied to make scenes, dress up a project or demonstrate an idea. Those with little or no art ability will find the program a god-send for completion of their work in an appealing, eye-catching manner. Those with intuitive art ability will find the program a spring-board from which to launch their own creative genius.
corefx allows you to work with images from a wide variety of sources. Use digital photographs, image scans, web graphics and many other sources as your starting point. Any images you produce in corefx can easily be saved for use on the web (including animations), or desktop Publishing, presentation or word processing software.
System Requirements for Windows computers
- Windows 98 and up
- 96 MB RAM
- 400 MHz or higher
- CD-ROM Drive
- 125 MB hard drive disk space
- VGA display, 16 bit color with 800 x 600 resolution
NOTES:
Site or Network license is one site only, includes laptop licenses and teacher take home rights; 10 CDs supplied.
Activity Guides and Reference Guides are available
corefx from Core Learning
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