| A | B |
| graphics | anything on a page that is not actual text |
| compression | how an image is stored |
| lossless | integrity is is retained as image is resized |
| lossy | some pixels are lost when the image is resized |
| portability | ease at which files are opened, modified and viewed |
| transparency | allows graphic to blend into the background |
| raster graphics | also called bitmap graphics |
| gif | graphics interchange format |
| jpeg | joint photographic experts group |
| bmp | bitmap |
| png | portable network graphic |
| tiff | tagged interleave format |
| vector graphics | composed of mathematical formulas |
| ai | adobe illustrator |
| eps | encapsulated postscript |
| cdr | corel draw |
| dxf | autocad |
| svg | scalable vector graphics |
| plt | Hewlett Packard Graphics Language Plot file |
| color depth | the number of bits per pixel that can be displayed |