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Here is a glossary of the most common graphics terms:

  A
Acquisition
Adobe Illustrator (File Format)
Adobe PSD (File Format)
AI (File Format)
Alpha
Alpha Transparency
ANI (File Format)
Animation (File Formats)
Anti-Aliased Scaling
Anti-Aliased Text
Anti-Aliasing
Anti-Leech
Artifact
ASF (File Format)
Aspect Ratio
Audio Video Interleave (File Format)
Average Dithering
AVI (File Format)

B
Banner Advertisements
Bayer Dithering
Bit Depth
Bitmap
Bitmap (File Formats)
Bitmap Font
Blending
BMP (File Format)
Browser-Safe Palette

C
CAD
CAD (File Formats)
CALS (File Format)
Capture
CCITT Compression
CDR (File Format)
CFP (File Format)
CGM (File Format)
Clip Art
CMYK
Color Depth
Color Map
Color Model
Color Safe Palette
Color Separation
Composite
Compression
Computer Aided Acquisition and Logistics Support Raster Format (File Format)
Computer Graphics Metafile (File Format)
Corel Photo-Paint (File Format)
CorelDRAW (File Format)
CoverFactory Project (File Format)
CPT (File Format)
Crop
Cross-Hatch Patterns
CUR (File Format)
Cursor
Cursor (File Formats)

D
DCX (File Format)
Decompression
Deskew
Despeckle
Device Independent Bitmap (File Format)
DGN (File Format)
Direct3D
DirectDraw
DirectMedia
DirectX
Dithering
DjVu (File Format)
Dots Per Inch
DPI
Drawing eXchange Binary (File Format)
Drawing eXchange Format (File Format)
Drawing File (File Format)
Drop Shadow
DRW (File Format)
DWG (File Format)
DXB (File Format)
DXF (File Format)

E
eBook Cover
Edge Effect
EMF (File Format)
EMZ (File Format)
Encapsulated PostScript (File Format)
EPS (File Format)
Exchangeable Image File Format (File Format)
Exif (File Format)

F
FAVICON
FH (File Format)
FITS (File Format)
FLA (File Format)
Flash (File Format)
FlashPix Format (File Format)
FLC (File Format)
Flexible Image Transport System (File Format)
FLI (File Format)
Floyd-Steinberg Dithering
FNT (File Format)
Font
Font (File Formats)
FPX (File Format)
FreeHand (File Format)

G
GEM (File Format)
GEM IMG (File Format)
GEM Metafile (File Format)
GIF (File Format)
Glyph
Graphics Interchange Format (File Format)
Gray Scale
Group 3 Compression
Group 4 Compression

H
Half-Tone
Halo
Hatch Patterns
HD Photo (File Format)
Hot-Linking
HSB
HSI
HSL
HSV
Hue Saturation Brightness
Hue Saturation Intensity
Hue Saturation Luminosity
Hue Saturation Value
Huffman Encoding

I
ICO (File Format)
Icon
Icon (File Formats)
IGES (File Format)
Image Acquisition
Imagemap
IMG (File Format)
Initial Graphics Exchange Specification (File Format)
Interlaced Bitmap
Interlacing

J
Jaggies
JFIF (File Format)
Joint Photographic Experts Group (File Format)
Joint Photographic Experts Group File Interchange Format (File Format)
JPEG (File Format)
JPEG Quality

K
Kodak Photo CD (File Format)

L
Layer
Lens Flare
Lossless Compression
Lossy Compression
Lotus PIC (File Format)
LZW Compression

M
MAC (File Format)
Macintosh PICT (File Format)
MacPaint (File Format)
Macromedia Flash FLA Project File Format (File Format)
Metadata
Metafile
Metafile (File Formats)
Microsoft Advanced System Format (File Format)
Microsoft Windows Animated Cursor (File Format)
Microsoft Windows Cursor (File Format)
Microsoft Windows Device Independent Bitmap (File Format)
Microsoft Windows Enhanced Metafile (File Format)
Microsoft Windows Enhanced Metafile (Compressed) (File Format)
Microsoft Windows Font (File Format)
Microsoft Windows Icon (File Format)
Microsoft Windows Metafile (File Format)
MNG (File Format)
Moving Picture Experts Group (File Format)
MPEG (File Format)
MrSID (File Format)
Multi-image Network Graphics (File Format)
Multiresolution Seamless Image Database (File Format)

N
Netscape Color Safe Palette

O
Object File Format (File Format)
OCR
ODG (File Format)
OFF (File Format)
OpenDocument drawing (File Format)
OpenGL
Optical Character Recognition
Ordered Dithering
OS/2 Bitmap (File Format)
OS/2 BMP (File Format)
Outline Font

P
PackBits Compression
Palette
PBM (File Format)
PCD (File Format)
PCX (File Format)
PDF (File Format)
PGM (File Format)
Photo Object
PICT (File Format)
Pictor PC Paint (File Format)
Pictor PIC (File Format)
Pixel
Pixel Editing
PNG (File Format)
Point
Portable Bitmap (File Format)
Portable Document Format (File Format)
Portable Gray Map (File Format)
Portable Network Graphics (File Format)
Portable Pixel Map (File Format)
PostScript
PostScript (File Format)
PPM (File Format)
Prepress (File Formats)
PS (File Format)
PSD (File Format)

Q
QuickTime
QuickTime (File Format)

R
Random Dithering
Raster
Raster Font
Rasterisation
RealMedia File Format (File Format)
Resolution
Resource Interchange File Format (File Format)
Retouching
RGB
RIFF (File Format)
RMFF (File Format)
Run-length Compression

S
Sans Serif
Scalable Vector Graphics (File Format)
Scanline
Scanner
SCR (File Format)
Screen Capture
Screenshot
Seattle FilmWorks (File Format)
Serif
SFW (File Format)
SGI (File Format)
Silicon Graphics Image File Format (File Format)
Speckles
Sprite
Stitching
Stroke Font
Sun Rasterfile (File Format)
SVG (File Format)
SWF (File Format)
SXD (File Format)

T
Tag Image File Format (File Format)
Texture Mapping
TGA (File Format)
Thumbnail
TIFF (File Format)
Transparency
Trim
TrueColor
TrueType
TrueType Font (File Format)
TrueVision TARGA (File Format)
TTF (File Format)
TWAIN
Typeface

U
Uncompressed
UNIX Plot Format (File Format)

V
Vector
Vector (File Formats)
Vector Font
Vectorisation
VICAR (File Format)
Video (File Formats)
Video Image Communication and Retrieval (File Format)

W
Watermark
WBMP (File Format)
Web Publishing (File Formats)
Windows Media Video (File Format)
Wireless Bitmap (File Format)
WMF (File Format)
WMV (File Format)
WordPerfect Graphics (File Format)
WPG (File Format)

X
X Window Bitmap (File Format)
X Window Dump (File Format)
X Window PixMap (File Format)
XAR (File Format)
Xara (File Format)
XBM (File Format)
XPM (File Format)
XWD (File Format)

Y
YCbCr

Z
ZSoft PCX (File Format)



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