Digital Assets Flashcards
What types of digital assets are there and how do we manage them?
What are common forms of image compression used today?
lossy and loseless
Compare and contrast lossless and lossy compression
Lossless compression involves the compression of a file/ image that doesn’t lose any quality or content, it also requires more space than lossy. Lossy compression involves losing some form of content, whether that is quality or image/ file size, this will save the most space and is often used for scaling-down images.
What is a suitable convention for naming and storing files?
The file name should provide descriptive contextual information.
(eg. Name, date, size, version)
What types of media are compressed typically?
Pictures (JPEG), videos(AVC), and audios(MP3)
What sort of compression would we use for images going onto the web for gifs?
lossy - saves space at the price of quality.
How is information read by a computer?
information is read by a computer using binary code.
How are images interpreted by a computer?
Images are represented as strings of binary. Each 3 bytes are used to represent 1 pixel showing the RGB make up of the image. The computer reads these binary strings and creates the image pixel by pixel.
