Higher Graphic Coms Flashcards
Crop marks?
Used to show where content will be trimmed off of a page
Registration marks?
Makes sure multicoloured isn’t not alighted
Colour bars?
Printed to be trimmed off and as a way to cheak consistency and quality
RGB?
Used for screens
CMYK?
For printing
PMS?
The spefic colour picker companies use
What are Stock photos?
Photos under the copyright of a company
Advantages to stock photos?
- better quality
- more range of types of pictures
- lots of different types of pictures can be found
Disadvantages of stock photos?
- expensive
- image may not be what your looking for
- file maybe really big
Naming physical printers?
- inkje
- colour laser
- screen printing
- wide format banner
- offset lithography
Inkjet pros and cons?
Pros
- printers are cheap
- photographic quality (good)
- quick for short runs
Cons
- ink cartridge expensive
- liquid ink = smudge
- limited printing sizes
Colour laser pros and cons
Pros
- decent price printer
- good quality not photographic
- quick for medium runs
Cons
- tonner expensive
- fuser of printer needs to be replaced not cheap
Screen printing pros and cons?
Pros
- low costs for medium runs
- bright good colours
- can print on different materials
Cons
- slow messy
- expensive to set up
- liquid ink smudge
- can’t print high quality and photographic
Wide format banner pros and cons?
Pros
- can print big pages
- photographic quality no spot light
- quick short runs
- can cut contours
Cons
- liquid ink smudge
- solvent ink not cheap
Off set lilitheogrpahy pros and cons?
Pros
- low cost fast production
- photographic quality spot lights
- can print sizes and pages type
- fast for long runs
Cons
- expensive set up
- needs specialists
What’s a raster image?
Made from pixels that can lose qualily overtime
What’s a vector?
Used to make like macdonald sigh doesn’t loose pixel when zoomed in and out
Vector file types?
- svg
- dxf
- epc
How can cropping enhance a layout?
Square cropping used to make the image fit onto the page on the avaliable space
Fully cropping allows text to wrap around image
What does place text do?
- Placeholder text allows a graphic
designer to create a layout before
the final text has been decided on - Placeholder text does not need to
be manually typed
3d file types? To share cad?
- step
- iges
DXF
Drawing Interchange Format.
It is a CAD data file format
SVG
(SVG) is a vector image format for two-dimensional graphics with support for interactivity and animation
BMP
RASTER IMAGE
