PHOTOSHOP

• Graphic Editing program produced by Adobe Software Systems

• Photoshop is principally used for digital imaging and photo manipulation

FILE EXTENSIONS

.PSD – Photoshop’s standard uncompressed file format, which preserves the capability to edit and manipulate unflatten image layers.

.JPEG – Compressed image file format, that is commonly applied to digital photography or graphically complex imagery.

.TIFF – Uncompressed file format that is typically associated with scanned imagery, faxes among other digital imaging platforms.

.PDF – "Portable Document Format” perhaps the most diversely supported file extension that is widely used to present multi-page documents, in addition to complex graphic imagery.

.GIF – highly compressed bitmap image format that references a pallet of up to 256 colors. Most commonly associated with screen resolution web imagery.

.PNG – bitmap image format that popularly preserves background transparency amongst screen resolution web imagery.

PHOTOSHOP LAYERS

A layer is simply one image stacked on top of another.

KEY TERMS

COMPOSITION – The arrangement of visual elements within a work of art.

CONCEPT – A general notion or idea.

TYPOGRAPHY – The artistic arrangement of text within a visual composition.

RASTER IMAGE – Data structure representing a general rectangular grid of pixels.

VECTOR IMAGE – Numerically based image format that preserves image quality while scaling.

VISUAL METAPHOR – The representation of an idea through visual imagery that suggests a particular association or point of similarity

INCHES – Conventional measurement unit.

PIXELS – A single unit within a raster image.

UNITS

INCHES – Conventional measurement unit.

PIXELS – A single unit within a raster image.

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