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Glossary

Floating selection

Floating selection

A selected area that can be deleted or moved without

affecting the underlying image. Like a sticky note, it can

be moved around without changing the image.

GIF

GIF

Graphics Interchange Format. A standard file format for

color and grayscale images, originally designed by

CompuServe.

Grayscale

Grayscale

An image with 256 gray shades.

Halftone

Halftone

An image composed of evenly spaced color or gray dots,

of varying size. Halftone images are prepared—usually

through a photographic process—for printing purposes.

Highlights

Highlights

The brightest parts of an image.

Histogram

Histogram

A special type of line chart that shows the color

distribution of images by representing the number of

pixels with given brightness values.

HSV

HSV

A color model that defines these color elements: hue,

saturation, and brightness. Also called HSB.

Hue

Hue

The color characteristic that determines what part of

the spectrum a color belongs to.

Image data type

Image data type

Describes the pixel and color information of an image.

Usually in two parts: bit depth (“24-bit”) and color

model type (“RGB”).

Indexed color image

Indexed color image

An image that is converted to 16 or 256 colors.

JPG (JPEG)

JPG (JPEG)

Joint Photographic Experts Group. A file format that

encodes color or grayscale images into compressed form.

Line art

Line art

Black and white image with no gray.

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