Digital Media - Graphic Design Terms/Photoshop/File Format

Cutting away of one or more "sides" of a picture to remove unwanted areas and to increase focus.

• cloning

• cropping

• rotating

• cutting

The compression formula that reduces the size of a file by removing some pixels from the image.

• aliasing

• anti-aliasing

• lossy

• lossless

Process of reducing the file size of a graphic image.

• feathering

• compressing

• reducing

• resolutioning

When selecting (copying) an image, this is the graphic technique that slightly blurs the edge of an image.

• feathering

• filtering

• blurring

• opacity

An image function that smooths out edges by making them slightly fuzzy.

• artifacting

• smoothing

• scaling

• anti-aliasing

A graphic that is created by using pixels.

• raster image

• dots image

• vector image

• pixel image

A graphics technique that stretches an array of values of colors from one side of an image to another.

• filtering

• texturing

• watermarking

• gradient

A file extension that supports over 16 million colors. It is probably the best choice for photographs.

• .bmp

• .gif

• .jpg

• .doc

A means of compressing animations and/or graphics to reduce the size of the file.

• transforming

• optimizing

• saving

• reducing

Density of pixels in an image.

• resolution

• dotation

• compression

• pixelation