Section 5.5. Summary
This chapter isn’t intended to teach you everything about image editing or even how to use a particular program. You should know some of the basic terms and ideas behind computer graphics. With this background knowledge, you can easily learn more about graphics and how to use a graphics program for your assignments.
See Figure 5.4 for one last example of what the same image looks like when stored with various graphics formats.
Key Terms
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bitmap graphics
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vector graphics
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pixel
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colour depth
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paletted or indexed colour
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dithering
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compression
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lossless compression
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lossy compression
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transparency
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alpha channel
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graphics file format
