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| Graphics | anything on the page that is not actual text, from simple line drawings to fully active images found on the World Wide Web. |
| Color Depth | The number of colors per pixel that can be contained in an image. |
| Compression | refers to how an image is saved in order to reduce the file size. |
| Lossless | Reduces the file size without losing any pixel data |
| Lossy | Alters and/or eliminates some data. |
| Portability | How easily you can open, modify, and view the files on computers using different operating systems, software and browsers. |
| Transparency | Allows the background color of an image to be “eliminated” or made transparent so that the background behind the image can be seen. |
| Raster Graphics | Also called bitmaps Consist of grids of tiny dots called pixels. |
| Pixels | Grids of tiny dots. |
| GIF (Graphic Interchange Format) | Used for animation, it's transparent and lossless. |
| JPEG (Joint Interchange Photographic Experts Group) | Has no animation or transparency. It has lossy compression. |
| BMP (Bitmap) | No animation or transparency and its uncompressed. |
| PNG (Portable Netwiork Group) | No animation, transparent & its lossless compression. |
| TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) | Available in compressed & uncompressed formats. |
