Computer graphics: midterm review Flashcards
A picture in electronic form.
Digital imagex
Program that allows you to manipulate graphic images so that they can be reproduced by professional printers using full color processes.
Image editing
Each dot in a bit mapped image that represents a color or shade.
Pixels
Combines all layers in a document into a single layer and reduces the file size.
Flatten
A distinctive image that you can create by combining symbols, shapes, colors, and text.
Logo
Create and format text. Each character is measured in points.
Type
The entire window, stores projects and project files and keep track of file versions.
Workspace
Displays the current settings for each active tool.
Options bar
A collection of palettes or buttons surrounded by dark gray bar, usually in vertical orientation.
Dock
Onscreen markers, can help you precisely measure and position an object in the work space.
Rulers
A solution for organizing and managing a complex illustration by segregating artwork (allow you to create a section that can be manipulated independently).
Layer
Displays all the layers in an active image.
Layers palette
The direction in which an image appears on the page.
Orientation
An area within an image surrounded by a selection marquee.
Selection
Determines the percentage of transparency.
Opacity
A feature that affects a layer’s underlying pixels, and is used in lighten or dark colors.
Blending mode
Converts a typed layer into an image layer.
Rasterized
A dashed line that surrounds the area you want to edit or move to another image.
Marquee
To exclude certain parts of an image; hides areas of an image from view without losing resolution quality.
Crop
Merges all visible layers into a single background layer and discards all hidden layers.
Flattening
Combining images from sources such as other Photoshop images, royalty-free images, pictures taken from digital cameras, and scanned artwork.
Compositing
Temporary storage area provided by your operating system, for cut and copied data.
Clipboard
Horizontal or vertical lines that you position on a page.
Guides
Small boxes that appear along the perimeter of a selected object and are used to change the size of an image.
Handles
A feature in which the border of a picture or portrait fades into the surrounding color at its edges.
Vignette
A feather that lets you protect or modify a particular area; created using a marquee.
Mask
A method used to control the softness of a selection’s edges by blurring the area between the selection and the surrounding pixels.
Feather
The color reflected from or transmitted through an object.
Hue
The strength or purity of the color, representing the amount of gray in the portion to hue.
Saturation
The measurement of relative lightness or darkness of a color and is measured as a percentage from 0% (black)-100% (white).
Brightness
A feature that lets you choose a color from a color spectrum or lets you numerically define a custom color.
Color picker
A visual display of colors that you can choose from.
Swatches palette.
When you convert a color image to gray scale, the light and dark values remain while the color information is deleted.
Luminosity
Photoshop commands that can significantly alter an image’s appearance.
Filters
A command that converts a stroked path into a closed path that is the same width as the original stroked path.
Outline stroke
Fonts that have a tail, or stroke at the end of some characters.
Serif fonts
Fonts that do not have tails or strokes at the end of characters; commonly used in headlines.
San serif fonts
The A long-standing process of increasing or decreasing space between a pair of characters.
Kerning
The amount of vertical space between lines of type.
Leading
An invisible line on which type rests.
Baseline
A soft-edged graphic behind another graphic that appears as though it is the shadow of the graphic DTD.
Drop shadow
Partially fills in pixel edges, resulting in smooth edged type. This feature lets your type maintain its crisp appearance and is especially useful for large type.
Anti-alaising
Converts a typed layer to an image layer.
Rasterized
Create 3 dimensional or other reshaping effects.
Distort filters
The height of the ridges within an object.
Relief
