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Graphic | a pictorial representation, typically a photograph, picture, drawing, illustration or animation |
Image | A picture that has been created or copied and stored in electronic form. |
RGB | (red, green, and blue) refers to a system for representing the colors to be used on a computer monitor. Red, green, and blue can be combined in various proportions to obtain any color. Each color level is represented by the range of decimal numbers from 0 to 255. The total number of available colors is 256 x 256 x 256, or 16,777,216 possible colors |
Bitmap | An image composed of a pattern of individually colored dots (squares); .bmp is its file extension |
Vector Graphics | the creation of digital images through a sequence of commands or mathematical statements that place lines and shapes in a given two-dimensional or three-dimensional space |
Raster Graphics | digital images created or captured (for example, by scanning in a photo) as a set of samples of a given space |
Color Box | the basic colors available in pallets of 16 and 28 in the PAINT application |
Tool Box | the 16 basic drawing tools in the PAINT application |
Attribute | an entity that defines a property of an object, element, or file. In computer graphics, line objects can have attributes such as thickness, color or values defined in a certain color model, such as RGB |
Flip | reversing a shape is also referred to as creating a mirror image or flipping |
Horizontal Lines | lines that never slope up or down |
Vertical Lines | lines that point straight up and down |
Parellel Lines | two lines are parallel if they never meet |
Cylinder | a surface or solid bounded by two parallel planes and generated by a straight line moving parallel to the given planes and tracing a curve bounded by the planes and lying in a plane perpendicular or oblique to the given planes |
Background Color | The bottom rectangle in Paint. It is the default color of any new image that you create. When you use the Eraser tool, the Eraser turns whatever you erase back to this color. To change the this color, click on the desired color in the Color Palette with the right button on your mouse. |
Foreground Color | The top, overlapping rectangle in Paint. It is the color that will be used by the following Tools: Text, Pencil, Paintbrush, Airbrush, Fill, Shapes, Line, and Curve. To change this color, click on the desired color in the Color Palette with the left button on your mouse. |
.jpg | file extension for a JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) file and is the format most used for storing and transmitting photographs on the World Wide Web. |