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Multimedia Design
Chapter 3 File Images
Term | Definition |
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Paint Program | A general term for graphics software that uses pixels to create an image |
Pixel | A specific color at a specific location in a matrix or grid. A collection will make an image. |
Drawing Program | A term for graphics software that uses mathematically defined lines to create an image |
GUI | Graphic User Interface. The GUI makes it possible to use a device, like a mouse, to interact with a computer |
Bandwidth | The speed at which a computer can transmit information along a network |
compression | The process of reducing the size of the image. Lossy compression reduces the size of an image file by removing information that is not essential. loss-less compression does not change any pixel data |
Pixel Dimension | The number of pixels in a row ad column of a raster grid |
Resolution | The density of pixels in an images |
Resampling | Adding or deleting image pixels during the process of resizing |
Aspect Ratio | The ratio of the width to the height of an image |