SOFTWARE TYPES
• Word processing
• Page layout
• Paint
• Draw
SOFTWARE INTERFACE
• Panels
• Menus
• Dialog boxes
• Functions of Hardware and Software
• Image types (raster/bitmap and vector)
IMAGE TYPES
RASTER / BITMAP
• Image made up of tiny pixels
Low Resolution
High Resolution
VECTOR
• Lines and images create in Illustrator using mathematical equations.
FILE TYPES
JPG / JPEG
• Joint Photographic Experts Group.
• Compression format. Loses data.
• Compresses bitmap images.
TIFF / TIF
• Tagged Image File Format.
• High quality compression format.
• Professional format for photographers and graphic artist.
• Compresses bitmap images.
PNG
• Portable Network Graphic
• PNG was designed for transferring images on the Internet, not for professional-quality print graphics
• Does not support non-RGB color spaces such as CMYK.
• Better than GIF
• Compresses bitmap images.
GIF
• The Graphics Interchange Format
• Bitmap image format that was introduced by CompuServe in 1987 and has since come into widespread usage on the World Wide Web.
• The format supports up to 8 bits per pixel for each image, allowing a single image to reference its own palette of up to 256 different colors chosen from the 24-bit RGB color space.
• Compresses bitmap images.
EPS
• Encapsulated Postscript File
• Self contained file which can store information on vectors and rasters.
• Portable Document Format
• Format used to represent documents in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating system
• Can be made with bitmap or vector images.
ADOBE FORMATS
• ai – Illustrator file
• psd – Photoshop Document
• indd – InDesign Document
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