| A | B |
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| Graphics | – anything on a page that is not actual text, from simple line drawings to fully active images found on the World Wide Web |
| Lossless | integrity 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 across software and browsers |
| Transparency | allows the background color of an image to be replaced or changed so that the graphic can blend into the background |
| Raster Graphics | also called bitmap graphics, images composed of grids of pixels that have a fixed resolution (number of pixels per inch) and cannot be resized without losing image quality |
| GIF | Graphics Interchange Format |
| JPEG | Joint Photographic Experts Group |
| BMP | Bitmap (Windows) |
| PNG | Portable Network Graphic |
| TIFF | Tagged Interleave Format |
| Vector Graphics | composed of mathematical formulas that define lines, nodes (drawing points) and curves of digital images; can be 2D or 3D; edited in draw programs |
| AI | Adobe Illustrator |
| EPS | Encapsulated Postscript |
| CDR | Corel Draw |
| DXF | AutoCAD |
| SVG | Scalable Vector Graphics |
| PLT | Hewlett Packard Graphics Language Plot File |
