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Multimedia And Digital Media

Subject : it-skills
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1. Also known as printer resolution. The number of dots of colour a printer is capable of producing in a certain amount of space.






2. Used as part of colour synchronisation to specify how a device represents colour.






3. General name for operations performed on an image using graphics software.






4. Lossy file format for images.






5. Lossy file format for video.






6. Lossless file format for images.






7. File format for documents - used by Microsoft Office.






8. Ensuring printed output colours accurately match those on the screen.






9. Area of a document which appears the same on every page.






10. Technical graphics software used to design products for manufacture.






11. Area of a document which appears the same on every page.






12. General name for operations performed on an image using graphics software.






13. Lossless file format for audio.






14. The process of converting analog data into digital computer data.






15. Graphics filtering for altering the tones and intensities of colours in an image.






16. File format that stores characters using ASCII or Unicode encoding.






17. File format that stores characters using ASCII or Unicode encoding.






18. Graphics which are stored as a series of mathematical shapes and properties that can be independently manipulated at any time.






19. Legal concept which protects intellectual property from authorised copying - alteration - or use.






20. Refers to creations of the mind - non-physical property such as photographs - music - stories - and films.






21. Licensing system for authors who wish to distribute their work freely.






22. Refers to the number of colours in an image.






23. File format that stores characters using ASCII or Unicode encoding.






24. Amount of data used to represent a single sample in a video or audio file.






25. A template page which is used to include standard features (such as page numbers or a header) on each page of a document in a consistent manner.






26. Lossy file format for video.






27. Unit used to measure the resolution of digital cameras. Refers to 1 million pixels.






28. Technical graphics software used to design products for manufacture.






29. Software required to view certain compressed video and audio formats.






30. Effect that transforms one image into another over a series of frames.






31. File format for documents - which can store text and some basic formatting information.






32. Lossy file format for video.






33. Temporary storage area used to store video or audio data ready for playing.






34. Changing the size of an image.






35. Technique used to replace part of a video image matching a certain colour with computer graphics.






36. Graphics technique which copies one part of an image to another - often to remove something from the image.






37. Refers to the number of pixels in an image.






38. Number of samples taken each second when recording sound.






39. Compressed file format for general data.






40. Number of pixels displayed in each inch of screen output.






41. Compression technique in which the original file is completely recoverable - with no loss of quality. Compare lossy compression.






42. Video or audio data that is played while it is downloading.






43. The process of adding an author name or logo into an image to identify its owner and prevent intellectual property theft.






44. Tools in graphics software for selecting only a subset of an image.






45. Lossless file format for audio.






46. Technique used in graphics software to place digital images or effects on top of each other to build up a final image.






47. Individual dots which make up bitmap graphics.






48. Image effect found in most graphics software.






49. Taking a small part (subset) of an image.






50. Graphics composed of rectangular grids of pixels.