Graphics Terms

animated gif: A  format,often used on World-Wide Web pages to provide moving icons and banners. The format allows multiple "frames" that give the impression of motion when displayed in sequence, much like a flip book.	crop: Photography . to cut off or mask the unwanted parts of (a print or negative).	dpi: dots per inch: a measure of the resolution of a typesetting machine, computer screen, etc
jpeg: a set of standards and file format for compression of digital color images.	mirror: something that gives a minutely faithful representation, image, or idea of something else	resolution: the degree of sharpness of a computer-generated image as measured by the number of dpi in a hard-copy printout or the number of pixels across and down on a display screen.
pixel: any of a number of very small picture elements that make up a picture, as on a visual display unit	fps (frames per second): The unit of measurement of the frame rate(number of frames in an animation that are displayed everysecond) of a moving image.	file extension: The portion of a filename, following the final point, which indicates the kind of data stored in the file - the file type. Apart from informing the user what type of content the file holds, filename extensions are typically used to decide which program to launch when a file is "run"
bmp: Microsoft Windows bitmap format. Bmp files may use run-length encoding. This graphics format is when compression actually enlarges the file.	frame: the information or image on a screen or monitor at any one time.	Compression: Also called data compression. reduction of the storage space required for data by changing its format.
flip: to move (something) suddenly or jerkily.	morph: to transform (an image) by computer.	frame buffer: Part of a video system in which an image is stored, pixel by pixel and which is used to refresh a raster image. A frame buffer holds one frame from a sequence of frames forming a moving image.
video card: A circuit board fitted to a computer containing the necessary video memory and other electronics to provide a bitmap display.	CPU: central processing unit: the key component of a computer system, which contains the circuitry necessary to interpret and execute program instructions.	colour depth: The number of bits of information stored per pixel of an image or displayed by a graphics adapter. The more bits there are, the more colours can be represented, but the more memory is required to store or display the image.