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Photography Terms
100

 The number of pixels per inch a camera can access to recreate an image. 

What is Camera Resolution?



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This term refers to the number of pixels per square inch in a digital image.

What is Resolution?

100

Moving an object clockwise or counterclockwise around a center point.

What is Rotating?

100

To convert type or vector artwork to pixels.


What is Rasterize?

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These are the brightest parts of an image, often containing the most light and least detail.

What is Highlights?

200

The number of these per inch determines how much detail a camera can capture to recreate an image.

What is Pixels?


200

A grayscale image that Photoshop creates and uses to render the selection.

What is Alpha Channel?

200

Creating a mirror image of artwork by turning it horizontally or vertically.

What is Flipping?

200

A blend of two or more colors.


What is Gradient?

200

Sections of an image represented by pixels in the middle of the grayscale range.

What is Midtones?

300

This term refers to the number of pixels per inch that determines the clarity and detail of a digital image.

What is Image Resolution?

300

An ordered set of instructions to process data in a certain way.

What is Algorithm? 

300

Change the shape, size, perspective, or rotation of an object or image.

What is Transform?

300

Increasing or decreasing the space between two letters.


What is Kerning?

300

The name of a color.

What is Hue?

400

 Made up of a grid of pixels, this type of image is created, stored, and viewed electronically.

What is Digital Image?


400

The outline of a selection. The area of an image where highly contrasting pixels meet.

What is Edge? 

400

Definition:The point from which a transformation occurs.

What is Point Of Origin?

400

Increasing or reducing the space between letters of a word.


What is Tracking?


400

The very lightest pixel in an image.

What is White Point?

500

A hard edge.

What is Aliased? 

500

A basic artistic element that places an outline on an object.


What is Stroke?


500

The intensity of the hue. At 0% saturation, there is no color; full intensity or vibrance is at 100%.

What is Saturation?

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