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| An uncompressed bitmap file format that is very large and is not appropriate for the web | Bitmap |
| ready-to-use illustrations | clip art |
| Encoding data to take up less storage space and less bandwidth for transmission | compression |
| Eliminating unwanted areas of an image | cropping |
| Zoom takes a portion of the image and enlarges it electronically. | digital zoom |
| Special formatting style that blurs the edge of an image | feathering |
| The process of saving a file in a different file format than its current format; i.e. Changing .jpg to .tif | file conversion |
| Special effects available in graphics software that can be applied to mages | filters |
| Compressed bitmap file format (lossless) that supports only 256 colors; supports transparency and ANIMATION | .gif Graphics Interchange Format |
| The use of many shades of gray to represent an image | grayscale |
| The display size of an image represented in pixels, that is an image size of 640 x 480 | image size |
| A compressed bitmap file format (lossy) that is preferred for photographs; supports 16 million colors and is appropriate for the web; does not support transparency or animation | .jpg Joint Photographer Experts Group |
| A feature that allows you to place one image on top of another and edit each independently | layering |
| A compression formula that reduces the file size by removing certain pixels. | lossy compression |
| A compression formula that reduces the file size without data loss | lossless compression |
| Zoom that allows you to take extreme close-ups | macro zoom |
| Hiding part of a layer so that you can manipulate only the visible parts of the layer. | masking |
| The percentage of transparency applied to an image | opacity |
| Zoom that physically increases the length of the lens; produces a higher-quality image | optical zoom |
| A single point in a graphic image on a digital display; the smallest unit a monitor can display. | pixel |
| Compressed bitmap filr format (lossless) similar to the .gif format but in not limited to 256 colors; appropriate for the Web; supports transparency | .png Portable network Graphics |
| Another term for bitmap | Raster |
| converting vector objects in an image to raster (bitmap) content | rasterize |
| A change in the size of an image or element in both X-Y directions | scaling |
| Ready-to-use photographs | stock photography |
| Uncompressed bitmap file format; supports 16 million colors; file size is very large and is not appropriate for the web | .tif Tagged Image File |
| A visual quality in which a distant image or element can be seen through a nearer one. | transparency |
| Transferring files or images to the computer from a storage source such as a media car or flash drive | uploading |
| An image created by using a series of mathematically defined lines and curves rather than pixels, making the image easier to rescale. | vector graphics |
| Microsoft's vector file format | Windows Metafile .wmf |
