This is a square of solid color that makes up a digital image. It comes from the words picture and element.
What is a pixel?
100
This is the most common file format. It works with pretty much every program. It is smaller and lossy.
What is jpeg?
100
This is the most natural type of lighting. Your subject looks 3 dimensional.
What is side lighting?
100
This is what DSLR stands for.
What is Digital Single Lens Reflex?
100
This is how many pixels are in a megapixel.
What is one million pixels?
200
This is the good zoom that does not cut out pixels when you zoom in on your subject.
What is optical zoom?
200
This file format opens only in Photoshop. It saves the layers.
What is PSD?
200
Anytime you use a flash, your photo will have this type of lighting.
What is front light?
200
This is the part of the camera that controls how long light enters the camera. It functions like the eye lid of a human eye.
What is a shutter?
200
This is the most common memory card. It is used in a lot of point and shoot cameras and newer DSLR cameras.
What is an SD card?
300
This is the term that refers to how many pixels are in a picture. It is measured in ppi or pixels per inch.
What is resolution?
300
This is the largest file format at which you can take pictures.
What is Raw?
300
On a cloudy day, the lighting in your picture will be more this than on a sunny day.
What is cooler?
300
This part of the camera reads the amount of light entering the camera and tells you what settings you need for your aperture and shutter.
What is the light meter?
300
This allows you to view your digital photos after you have taken them.
What is an LCD?
400
This is the sensor that captures an image in a digital camera.
What is a CCD?
400
This is what TIFF stands for.
What is Tagged Image File Format?
400
This is where you can tell your camera the lighting conditions you are taking pictures under, and the camera will balance the white for those lighting conditions.
What is white balance?
400
This part of the camera controls the intensity of the light getting into the camera. It functions just like the pupil of the human eye.
What is the aperture?
400
This is the resolution you should set your picture too if you are going to print it.
What is 300 ppi?
500
This is the appropriate resolution for a photo that is only going to be used on the internet.
What is 72 ppi?
500
This is the name for a file that looses data when you open and close it.
What is lossy?
500
This is the best times of day to take pictures.
What is morning and evening?
500
These are the two parts of the camera that control exposure.
What are apertures and shutters?
500
The higher you set this on your camera, the more light gets into your picture but the more chance you have for a big grain.