GRAPHICS


.gif: Graphic Interchange Format - A format for image files.

.jpg: A standard for the compression of images, acronym for Joint Photographic Experts Group, the creators of the application.

Animation: The creation of a series of graphic images or frames so that they have the look of moving continuously.

Beveled: In graphic design, it is the practice of shading around the edges of an image in order to give the impression that the
image is coming off from the page and give a 3D effect.

Bitmap: An image that is composed of rows of small dots. An example of a bitmap is .GIF, whish is a more effective format of for
the Internet than .BMP.

BMP: The acronym for bitmap.

Browser Safe Colors: Computers use 256 colors to display images, however, only 216 of these colors are the same, these are
the so-called browser-safe colors or web-safe colors.

JPEG: Joint Photographic Experts Group - A common image format. Most of the images you see embedded into Web pages are
GIFs, but sometimes, especially in art or photographic Web sites, you can click on the image to bring up a higher resolution
(larger) JPEG version of the same image.

PDF: Portable Document Format - A format for creating files so viewable or to be printed using a viewer program and will appear
the same on any computer. Developed by Adobe, and viewer available free from Adobe.

PNG: Portable Network Graphic - An extensible image file format that is lossless, portable, and highly efficient. It will more than
likely replace .GIF since it has better compression efficiency with indexed-color, greyscale and truecolor images and an optional
alpha channel.

Portable Network Graphic: - .PNG - An extensible image file format that is lossless, portable, and highly efficient. It will more than
likely replace .GIF since it has better compression efficiency with indexed-color, greyscale and truecolor images and an optional
alpha channel.

TIFF: Tagged Image File Format - A format of graphics developed between Aldus & Microsoft and supported by Mosaic.
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