GRAPHIC DESIGN STUDY SHEET
Alignment: Arranging data to line up with a required format on a screen or printed form.
Anti-Aliasing: a technique used to add greater realism to a digital image by smoothing
jagged edges on curved lines and diagonals.
Aspect Ratio: the ratio of the width to the height of an image or screen.
Copyright: a document granting exclusive right to publish and sell literary or
musical or artistic work
Fair Use: the conditions under which you can use material that is copyrighted by
someone else without paying royalties
Digital Cameras: dude its a camera that takes pixels lol
Fonts: a specific size and style of type within a type family
Hexadecimal: of or pertaining to a number system having 16 as its base
Kerning: Kerning
In typography, kerning is the process of adjusting the spacing between characters in
a proportional font, usually to achieve a visually pleasing result. Kerning adjusts the
space between individual letter forms, while tracking adjusts spacing uniformly over
a range of characters. In a well-kerned font, the two-dimensional blank spaces
between each pair of characters all have similar area. The related term kern
denotes a part of a type letter that overhangs the edge of the type block.
Layers: Layers are used in digital image editing to separate different elements of
an image. A layer can be compared to a transparency on which imaging effects or
images are applied and placed over or under an image. Today they are an integral
feature of image editors. Layers were first commercially available in Fauve Matisse,
and then available in Adobe Photoshop 3.0, in 1994, but today a wide range of other
programs, such as Photo-Paint, Paint Shop Pro, the GIMP, Paint.NET, StylePix, and
even batch processing tools also include this feature. In vector images editors which
support animation, layers are used to further enable manipulation along a common
timeline for the animation; in SVG images, the equivalent to layers are "groups".
Leading: In typography, the vertical spacing between lines of type (between baselines).
The name comes from the early hot-metal days of typesetting when the space was achieved
with thin bars of lead.
Learning Styles: Learning style is an individual's natural or habitual pattern
of acquiring and processing information in learning situations. A core concept is that
individuals differ in how they learn. The idea of individualized learning styles
originated in the 1970s, and has greatly influenced education .
MegaPixel: One million pixels, used as a unit of resolution of digital cameras.
Palettes: is a portable platform used to move or store goods or a tool used by potters to
smooth clay.
Pixel: the smallest discrete component of an image or picture on a CRT screen
(usually a colored dot)
Point: a geometric element that has position but no extension
Public Domain: property rights that are held by the public at large
Raster Graphics: A data file or structure representing a generally rectangular
grid of pixels, or points of colour, on a computer monitor, paper, or other display
medium.
San Serif: small lines at the ends of characters. Popular sans serif fonts include
Helvetica, Avant Garde, Arial, and Geneva. Serif fonts include Times Roman, Courier, New
Century Schoolbook, and Palatino.
Serif: a type of font thats hard to read
Vector Graphics: the use of geometrical primitives based upon mathematical
equations to represent images in computer graphics, contrasted with raster
graphics.
Weigh:
You should know the following acronyms:
BMP: Basic Multilingual Plane
CMYK: color model (process color, four color) is a subtractive color model, used in
color printing, and is also used to describe the printing process itself. CMYK refers to
the four inks used in some color printing: cyan, magenta, yellow and key (black).
FTP: is a standard network protocol used to transfer computer files between a client and
server on a computer network.
GIF: a lossless format for image files that supports both animated and static images.
JPEG: a format for compressing image files.
PNG: a file format for image compression that, in time, is expected to replace the Graphics
Interchange Format (GIF) that is widely used on today's Internet.
PSD: which stands for Photoshop Document, is the default format that Photoshop uses for
saving data. PSD is a proprietary file that allows the user to work with the images'
RGB: RGB (red, green, and blue) refers to a system for representing the colors to be used
on a computer display. Red, green, and blue can be combined in various proportions to
