Chapter 1
A picture in electronic form
digital image
A rectangle that surrounds an image and contains eight handles to click and drag in order to change the dimensions of the artwork.
bounding box
Change the shape, size, perspective, or rotation of an object or image.
transform
Increasing or reducing the space between letters of a word.
Tracking
The intensity of the hue. At 0% saturation, there is no color; full intensity or vibrance is at 100%.
Saturation
The number of pixels per inch a camera can access to recreate an image.
camera resolution
A hard edge.
aliased
Creating a mirror image of artwork by turning it horizontally or vertically.
Flipping
The colors that make up a gradient.
color stops
The very lightest pixel in an image.
white point
The number of pixels per inch in an image file.
image resolution
A visual effect in which the edge of an image, usually an oval, gradually fades away.
vignette
Moving an object clockwise or counterclockwise around a center point.
Rotating
A basic artistic element that places an outline on an object
stroke
Definition:The name of a color.
Hue
The smallest component that makes up a digital image
pixels
Taking information from a pixel or accessing its color.
sampling
The point from which a transformation occurs.
point of origin
The layer functioning as the clipping mask.
base layer
The very darkest pixel in an image
black point
A single-color image, normally referred to as black and white.
grayscale image
To convert type or vector artwork to pixels.
rasterize
Sections of an image represented by pixels in the middle of the grayscale range.
Midtones