DTP Flashcards
What is the meaning of alignment?
Alignment is simply pictures or pieces of text are in line with one another e.g. left side aligned, right side aligned e.c.t
What is it meant by the DTP term contrast?
Contrast is when opposite colours on the colour wheel are in a image together e.g. blue and orange.
What is meant by the DTP term caption?
A caption is a layer of text at the middle, top or bottom of an image ( think old 2012 memes )
What is a drop cap?
A ‘drop cap’ is a capital letter at the beginning of a piece of writing, the drop cap can take up from any were from 2-5 lines normally.
What is drop shadow?
Drop shadow is when an image has a realistic shadow coming off of it this is called a ‘drop shadow’.
What is a flash bar?
A flash bar is something usually found at the header of a webpage or magazines.
What is meant by the DTP term balance?
Balance is self explanatory, it’s when there’s a balance between text and images or it could even be a balance between colours which have been used.
What is meant by the DTP term layers?
Think of an onion, I know that’s a weird analogy but go with it. With an onion there’s hundreds of layers of stuff, now think graphics. Think that those onion layers are individual layers of text, colour or images. That’s what the term ‘layers’ mean in graphics.
Give an explanation of what a advancing colour is.
An advancing colour is one which looks like it’s coming towards you, advancing colours are mostly all warm colours e.g. red, yellow or orange.
Give an explanation of what a receding colour is.
A receding colour is one which appears to be moving a way from you, receding colours are mostly all cold colours e.g. blue, green or purple.
Explain what cropping can be useful for.
Cropping can be useful for taking parts of an image out e.g. If you took a picture of a nice landscape but your friend photobombed the picture you could simply crop him or her out.
What is meant by the DTP term dominance?
Dominance is when a specific thing is bigger than the rest on a image e.g. think of the Nike logo, the tick is the most standout thing that appears on the logo, thus making it dominant.
What is meant by transparency?
Transparency is when a image, text or whatever has had it’s full percentage of colour taken down, by taking down transparency the image becomes slightly more see through the object or what ever e.g. In a movie if a person becomes invisible they become completely transparent.
What is meant by the DTP term bleed?
Bleed in graphics is not when something or someone is bleeding it’s in-fact when something is partially off of the page which has been designed, so it’s kind of like cropping but it’s when a image is falling off the page.
What is meant by the DTP term depth?
Depth is when images can be overlapping one another. For example having two see through bottles one behind the other.
