BASIC TERMINOLOGY

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Digital Camera Digital Pixels Pixelization File Formats Focus & Clarity

DIGITAL CAMERA

A type of camera that stores the photographed image electronically rather than on film.

The images are downloaded onto a computer where they can be manipulated.

DIGITAL Describes a method of storing, processing and transmitting

information through the use of distinct electronic or optical pulses that are displayed in numerical digits

Digital Digital in Photography

PIXELS (PICTURE ELEMENTS)

Pixels is short for picture elements The small dots that make up an electronic image Megapixel = 1 million pixels. More pixels = higher resolution

PIXELIZATION

Image-editing technique, used in multimedia and image production, in which an image is blurred by displaying part or all of it at a lower resolution

FILE FORMATS

a particular way that information is encoded for storage in a computer file

Types of Image File Formats JPEG GIF RAW TIFF PNG BMP PSP PSD

CLARITY & FOCUS

What is it?