In the Know

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In the Know

• Technological Vocabulary

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Movin on Up Terms

• Available Light Light in a room (sunlight or
  existing room light)
• Bit Depth the color capacity of a pixel. For
  every bit a pixel can carry one color.
• Bleed when an image exceeds the size of the
  page

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Movin on Up Terms

• Bounce Light light reflected off a card or wall
• CMYK Cyan, magenta, yellow and black color
  world used in printing
• Color Balance- the process of compensating for
  too much of one color in an image (if an image is
  too blue, yellow is added to bring the image back
  in balance

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Movin on Up Terms

• Compression shrinking or squeezing data n an
  image file
• Contrast ratio of dark tones to light tones
• Crop- removing unwanted portions of a picture

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• Cyan blueish / green color
• Default Setting presetting suggested by the
  software
• Depth of Field the measure of what area of a
  photograph is in focus

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Movin on Up Terms

• Export change from on file format into another
  (form PS to .jpg OR .gif)
• Exposure to let light strike film or a digital
  chip and the process of determining how much
  light strikes it and for how long.
• Filter a colored piece of glass attached to a
  lens

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Movin on Up Terms

• Firewall software program or hardware set to
  protect a computer from outsiders wanting to
  steal info
• Fixed Focus Lens a lens preset to one range of
  distance
• Focal Length distance form the midpoint of the
  lens to the convergence point on the film plane
  determines whether it is telephoto, wide or
  normal lens

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Movin on Up Terms

• HSB hue, saturation and brightness
• HSL - hue, saturation and lightness
• Hue - color
• Index Color the act of reducing color available
  to fit a smaller range of colors done to reduce
  file size

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Movin on Up Terms

• Jaggies stair stepped pixels on diagonal or
  curved parts of an image.
• Key Light main light source
• LPI - lines per inch a measure of resolution on
  a printing press
• Mask a layer or selection of a file used to
  protect a portion of an image

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Movin on Up Terms

• Noise unwanted artifacts in an image
• Normal Lens a lens that has the same focal
  length as the human eye
• Saturation purity or intensity of color
• Shade gradation of color with reference to its
  mixture with black

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Movin on Up Terms

• Sharpness refers to focus and the ability to
  display detail
• Speed the sensitivity of film or a chip to
  light
• Tone value, brightness or lightness the amount
  of light a color reflects
• Zoom Lens a multiple focus lens