Additive
A colour scheme where you add the colours to white to obtain
black.
Alpha Channel
An extra channel for storing degree of transparency.
Anti Aliasing
A method of reducing jagged edges
Bi Level
An image with only two colors.
Bitmap
An image containing only raster information.
CMYK
Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black. A color printing system that
uses these colors. Also see RBG
Dithering
A method of displaying colours that are not available on
a printer/monitor etc. The illusions of created by mixing available
colours.
DPI
Dot Per Inch. Numbers of dots per one inch.
EPS
Encapsulated PostScript. A printer/image description language.
See EPS
Gamma
Different platforms like PC, Mac, UNIX interpret color values slightly
different. An images that look dark on a PC might look bright on
a Mac.
The Gamma Correction is a way to explain how to an image should
be displayed.
GIF
Graphics Interchange Format. See GIF
Halftone
A gray scale image represented by bi level information.
Interlacing
Also known as progressive display. Both GIF, JPG and
TIFF has supported this features since about 1990.
JPG
Joint Photographics Experts Group. A file format, see JPG
LPI
Line Per Inch. A measure on how man lines of raster dots a printer
can print.
PDL
Page Description Language.
Pixels
A short name for Pixel Element. The smallest part that can
be displayed on a monitor.
Pixel Depth
Represent the numbers of colors.
PostScript
An image language that describes how an image should be
displayed primarily on a printer.
RGB
Red, Green and Blue. A way to represent color and a data monitor.
Also see CMYK
Resolution
A measure on how much information is stored in an image.
RLE
Run Length Encoding. A compression method where same values are
replaced.
RIP
Raster Image Processor. A computer/device used for convert the
image to the printers format.
TIFF
Tagged Image File Format.
True Color
24-bit color. 16,777,216 colours
Corporate
Identity Design 
