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| Mode | the amount of color data that can be stored in a given file format |
| Model | determines how pigments combine to produce resulting colors |
| Bitmap | a geometric arrangement of different color dots on a rectangular grid |
| Pixel | dots on a rectangular grid that represent a color or shade |
| Gamut | the range of displayed colors |
| Hue | the color reflected from or transmitted through an object |
| Saturation (chrome) | the strength or purity of the color, representing the amount of gray in proportion to hue |
| Brightness | the measurement of relative lightness or darkness of a color, measured from 0% (Black) to 100% (white) |
| Additive colors | used for lighting, video, and computer monitors; color is created by light passing through red, green, and blue phosphors (RBG) |
| CMYK | cyan, magenta, yellow, and black, components are combined to create new colors (colors are partially absorbed as ink hits paper to reflect back to your eyes (subtractive colors) |
| Subtractive colors | the absence of cyan, magenta, yellow, and black creates white |
| Color separation | produced by converting an RGB image into a CMYK image (the commercial printing process of separating colors |
| Bitmap mode | a specialized color mode that used black or white color values to represent image pixels (best for photographs or painted images) |
| Grayscale | mode uses up to 256 shades of gray, assigning a brightness value from 0 (black) to 255 (white) |
| Foreground color | used to paint, fill, and apply a border to a selection (black by default) |
| Background color | used to make gradient fills and to fill in areas of an image that has been erased (white by default) |
| Gradient fills | gradual blends of multiple colors |
| Sampling | a method of changing foreground and background colors where an existing color is used |
