Task 2

Pixels
What pixels or picture elements to be correct are the little dots
that make a picture they are a lot easier to see when zoomed
in. the pixels that are used in the image then the better
resolution it will be. The pixels are set out horizontal and
vertical in squares that all join up together. All of the pixels in
an image are the same size as one another and they are a full
block of colour and never half and half. The dimensions of the
image shows how good the resolution and an image has more
pixels if it has been zoomed in a lot and it is still a full image.

Here is an example of an image with a part zoomed in. the

more an image is zoomed then the more pixels will be shown.
Resolution is when you stretch an image and the more that you
stretch it then the more clearly and bigger the pixels will be. As
you can see here.

The intensity has a high level with the three main block colour
which are, red, yellow and blue. These colour make up a bright
and light tone and the more intense colour that is used then the
better and sharper the image will be by the variety of different

colours that are used. Every pixel has it`s own one colour and
the pixels will have other pixels with a different shade but
similar also there is never more than one colour in one pixel
and the brightness of a pixel will not change.

Raster images
Data compression is when you store something into a smaller
size so it fits on a disc but this means that the quality of the
image is reduced and some information is lost which makes the
file size not as big. This is then turned to a lossy compression.
Lossy compression is when you store an image in a file format
such as JPEG and some of the image is discarded if it is not
needed so every time you open it the computer will decay
some of the not needed part of the image. However lossless if
where it can be undone and so the image is a good resolution
once again. Raster images are used in paint programmes like
Photoshop and serif draw plus. A raster image or a bitmap is a
way to show digital images.

There are a few raster image formats such as.

Gif
What gif stands for is graphic interchange format. Gifs are a
moving image that plays back and forth and they are used all
over the internet for advertisement or entertainment purposes.

Jpg
What jpg means is joint photographic expert group which can
store more colours than a gif can but can lead to loss of quality.
What they are usually used for is images on the web.

Bmp
This stands for best management practices that is a file format
used to store bitmap digital formats.

Tiff
What this stands for is tagged image format. A format that is
used to store grey-scale data.

PSD
This means Photoshop image file which is used on Photoshop
and that is a graphics editing programme.

Vector
Vector images are a lot better to handle as they are easy to
resize and stretch. They also look better on different devices
like monitors and printers unlike raster images because they
always show the same image no matter what the device
resolution is. Another good point with vector images graphics
do not need as much memory as bip-map images do. These are
used with different software like adobe illustrator, corel draw
and macromedia Freehand among others.

-EPS
What this stands for is encapsulated postscript and is a graphic
file format. What this file format is used for is graphics, images
and text. They are used so that you can have embedded

preview can be used on Bitmap. This is the one of the most

used and popular file format for vector images.
Vector images can be created with points of connected lines,
control points and curves. They are a group of different objects
unlike picture elements. However they do have some
disadvantages such as the fact that they do not look realistic
but the advantage of them is that no matter how much you
resize the image it will still have the same quality.

BIT Depth
This looks at how many different colours there actually are in
the image. With images that have higher bit depth, are able to
have a lot more shades and colours as they have a lot more
combinations of 0`s and of 1`s that are available. This shows
you colours with higher levels of precision.
The primary colours that there is are red, blue and green and
these use any range of intensity values because of it`s BIT
depths.
What BITs per pixel are is the amount of BITs that are in the
primary colours are created all together that ends up in making
each of the pixels.

Monochrome
What monochrome is the word that is referred to for is the
black, white and greyscale colours. What it allows is different
shades of colours to come into an image and add effect to an
image and detail or it can be used for just 2 colours.

High colour
What high colour is, is where it stores information from images
that are in the computers memory for a reason such as every
pixel is shown by 2 bytes which is the same as 16 pixels.

True colour

True colour is a way that will let you to store information from a
computers memory such as 26 bit images which is pretty much
a group of colours and of shades.

Colour space
Colour space or what it is also known as colour model, is a
system that is used in order to show colour in numerical order.

Greyscale
This is colours of different shades of grey that are formed
together in order to create a greyscale. The colours red, blue
and green have the same RGB. The reason for this is the fact
that they have the same intensity space as an RGB and this is
because they don`t need as much information.

Image capture
If you want to capture an image then you will have to use a
gadget called a scanner or use a digital camera that is also
called a digitisation