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Lesson 2.01
Digital Raster Graphics
Term | Definition |
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Inches | an inch, like the unit of measurement of length |
Pixels | many little squares that combine to make up a photograph |
Points | Unit of measurement used to determine the size of font, leading,etc. |
Picas | Unit of type size. 12 points or 1/6 inch |
Em space | Scalable unit used to determine point size. 12 ems = 12 points |
Percentage | measure of proportion, usually length and width in proportion to the size of an image originally or the size of the canvas |
Resolution | Sharpness or clarity of an image, determined by number of pixels used |
PPI | Pixels per inch. measure of resolution on-screen. |
On-Screen Resolution | resolution, measured by PPI, of a graphic on a computer screen |
Print Resolution | Resolution, measured in DPI, of a printed graphic. |
DPI | Dots per inch. Used as a reference to the amount of dots on a printed sheet of paper per inch |
RGB | Red Green Blue. addetive color model used for computer graphics that is centered around creating a multitude of colors based around a mixture of red,green, and blue, each of the 3 colors represented by a number from 0 to 255 |
CMYK | Subtractive color model best used for print graphics. utilizes 4 the 4 colors: cyan, magenta, yellow, and black, in order to create different colors. |
Subtractive Color model | combining the 3 main colors lead to the creation of black rather than white. |