Digital media
is a picture in electronic form, and it may be referred to as a file, document, graphic, picture, or image.
What is a digital image?
This term, measured in megapixels, refers to the amount of detail a camera sensor can capture.
What is resolution?
This term refers to the number of pixels per inch on a screen or printed image.
What is PPI (pixels per inch)?
This file format is commonly used for transparent images on the web
What is PNG?
This common tool lets you remove unwanted parts of an image by trimming its edges.
What is the crop tool?
This Adobe program is the industry standard for editing raster images like JPEGs and PNGs.
What is Photoshop?
A 1080p video has this number of vertical pixels.
What is 1080?
An image that is 1280 x 720 has this many total pixels.
What is 921,600 pixels?
This image format, often used for digital photos, uses lossy compression and the extension .jpg.
What is JPEG?
This adjustment changes how light or dark an image appears overall.
What is brightness?
You'd use this tool to edit videos, add transitions, and export content for platforms like YouTube or Vimeo.
What is Adobe Premiere Pro?
This resolution, also known as Ultra HD, has 3840 horizontal pixels and is common in high-end video.
What is 4K?
This type of pixel-based image becomes blurry or “blocky” when scaled up too much.
What is a raster image?
This file format supports transparency and is commonly used for web graphics.
What is PNG?
This editing technique lets you fix blemishes or imperfections by copying nearby pixels.
What is the clone or healing tool?
This file format, often ending in “.mp4,” is commonly used for compressing and sharing video online.
What is an MP4 file?
This unit, abbreviated as “MP,” measures the number of millions of pixels in a photo.
What is a megapixel?
This measure, often confused with PPI, is used in printing and refers to ink dot density.
What is DPI (dots per inch)?
This audio file format is widely used for streaming and digital music, thanks to its small size.
What is MP3?
This kind of edit changes only the top layer of a multi-layered image without affecting the rest.
What is a non-destructive edit (or editing with layers)?
This open-source audio editing software is widely used for podcasts, music, and sound design.
What is Audacity?
Compared to 1080p, this video resolution offers 4x the detail and is often used in professional filmmaking.
What is 4K resolution?
A pixel is short for this term, referring to the smallest unit of a digital image.
What is a picture element?
This type of file, used in software like Adobe Illustrator, stores images as scalable lines and shapes instead of pixels
What is an SVG or vector file?
This term refers to changing an image’s colors to make them more vibrant or muted.
What is saturation?