lesson 14
clip art: is ready-made art that is available to use without having to edit it in any graphics applications.
compression: means to make smaller, in the sense that the amount of information is reduced.
file format: is the agrrangement in which data is saved in order to display it in a certain way.
gif: is a file format that can be viewed equally well on every kind of computer.
icon: a small symbolic graphic, can be used as part of the user's interface or can be set alongside of certain peices of information to help the user identify types of information.
index color: in most cases, when creating a GIF, all 256 colors will not be used.
jpeg: stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group.this tipe of format is best used with photo-like graphics.
raster: graphic is an image that is made up of pixels.
vector: image is based on a mathematical formula.
