GRAPHICS

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.gif: Graphic Interchange Format - A format for image files.

.jpg: A standard for the compression of images, acronym for Joint Photographic Experts
Group, the creators of the application.

Animation: The creation of a series of graphic images or frames so that they have the
look of moving continuously.

Beveled: In graphic design, it is the practice of shading around the edges of an image
in order to give the impression that the image is coming off from the page and give a 3D
effect.

Bitmap: An image that is composed of rows of small dots. An example of a bitmap is
.GIF, whish is a more effective format of for the internet than .BMP.

BMP: The accronym for bitmap.

Browser Safe Colors: Computers use 256 colors to display images, however, only 216
of these colors are the same, these are the so-called browser-safe colors or web-safe
colors.

JPEG: Joint Photograhic Experts Group - A common image format. Most of the images
you see embedded into Web pages are GIFs, but sometimes, especially in art or
photographic Web sites, you can click on the image to bring up a higher resolution
(larger) JPEG version of the same image.

PDF: Portable Document Format - A format for creating files so viewable or to be
printed using a viewer program and will appear the same on any computer. Developed
by Adobe, and viewer available free from Adobe.

PNG: Portable Network Graphic - An extensible image file format that is lossless,
portable, and highly efficient. It will more than likely replace .GIF since it has better
compression efficiency with indexed-color, greyscale and truecolor images and an
optional alpha channel.

Portable Network Graphic: - .PNG - An extensible image file format that is lossless,
portable, and highly efficient. It will more than likely replace .GIF since it has better
compression efficiency with indexed-color, greyscale and truecolor images and an
optional alpha channel.

TIFF: Tagged Image File Format - A format of graphics developed between Aldus &
Microsoft and supported by Mosaic.
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