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TechAppVocab05
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Crop. | To cut off the sides of an image to make it the proper size or to remove unwanted parts of an image. |
Fill. | To paint the inside of an enclosed object. |
Free Rotate. | Allows you to rotate a graphic to any angle. |
Gray Scale. | Represents colors with different shades of gray for use with a non-color printer. |
Grouping. | Allows you to work with several objects as though they were one object. |
Handles. | Little squares at the edges and corners of a selected graphic on your screen. |
Pixel. | A collection or series of dots making up an image or the display on a monitor (the more pixels the better the picture.) |
Resolution. | Refers to the sharpness and clarity of an image; it is measured in dpi (dots per inch) |
Scaling. | Re-sizing images to fit your layout. |
Thumbnail. | A miniature version of a picture or page layout. |
Toolbox. | A collection of drawing and painting tools included in a graphics software package. |
Vector. | An image is stored as lines rather than a series of dots or pixels. |
GIF. | Graphics Interchange Format; a bit-mapped graphics file format with low resolution and compressed to minimal file size for use on the web. It is a format especially chosen for animation effects. |
JPEG. | Joint Photographic Experts Group; a standard file for shrinking graphics so they transmit faster between modems and take up less space on your hard drive; This is the most widely accepted and used format for images. |
PNG. | Portable Networks Graphics: a format designed for the web; It will usually create a smaller file size than a GIF format. |
BMP. | Windows Bitmap ; a huge image file that has no advantage over other image formats; These files take up a lot of space on a hard drive. |
TIFF. | Tagged Image File Format; a file used in graphic design, publishing, and photography industries; The files are very large and have a slow loading time. |