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MAWD Lesson 2.01
Understand digital raster graphics
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Aspect Ratio | The relationship of an object's with to its height |
| Cropping | Cutting out part of an image |
| Layering | Compiling multiple pictures or objects together into one image |
| Selections | identifying a specific area of a layer or image that allows you to move or apply techniques to only that area on that specific layer |
| Transforming | changing a graphics size or dimensions through commands such as scaling and rotating |
| Layer Styles | one or more effects applied to a layer or layer group |
| Layer Marks | a non destructive method which allows you to apply transparency to a specific portion of a layer with precise control |
| Transparency | how see-though an item is |
| Fill | putting a color, gradient, pattern or texture into an object or area |
| Gradient | filling an object with a smooth transition from one color to another |
| Adjustment Layers | Non-destructive layers that can be added to allow you to apply tonal and color adjustments |
| Filters | used to apply special effects to an image that would be too difficult to create manually |
| Clone Stamp | samples of area of an image and then allows you to paint over another area of that image with the sampled area |
| Bleed Modes | to change the way layers interact by determining how a layer will blend into the layers below it |
| Inches | The standard unit of measurement for the United States and U.S standard sized papers |
| Pixles | The most common unit of measurement for computer screen display |
| Points | The standard unit of measurement for a typeface |
| Em Space | used to define the point size of a font |
| Percentage | A measurement that shows a part of a whole value |
| Resolution | The measure of the amount of detail that is stored in an digital image |
| PPI | Pixels Per Inch |
| On-Screen Resolution | how a monitor displayed an image |
| DPI | Dots Per Inch |
| RGB | assigns an intensity value to each pixel ranging from 0-255 for each of the red, blue & green components in an image |
| CMYK | assigns a percentage value for each of the processes links. Cyan, yellow, magenta & black |