SOFTWARE TYPES Word processing Page layout Paint Draw.

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.

PDF

• 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