Vocabulary Study Sheet Imaging

Clipart

A ready-to-use graphic file

Crop

To cut off unwanted portions of a picture or image

File Size

The amount of disk space that an file takes up

Animated GIF

Is a graphic image on a Web page that moves

Bit map

Defines a display space and the color for each pixel

DPI

In printing, is the usual measure of printed image quality on the paper. Choosing the higher print quality usually reduces the speed of printing each page.

GIF

An efficient method of storing graphics take up a small amount of disk space are best for illustrations, cartoons, logos, or similar non-photographic graphics.

TIFF

A very large, high-resolution image format

JPEG

An efficient method for storing graphic files lose a little data when the image is converted, and their files are often much larger than GIFs are your best choice for photographic images

Grayscale

A series of achromatic tones having varying proportions of white and black, to give a full range of grays

Filters

Particular effect that can be applied to an image