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USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10
Glossary
Video monitors use a progressive scanning method to display images (as compared to televisions,
video monitor
which use interlaced fields).
An effect in which the edges of an image gradually fade out.
vignetting
W
The background image or images on your Windows desktop. You can create your own custom wallpaper
wallpaper
by using the Creations wizard in Photoshop Elements.
Colors at the red end of the spectrum, including yellow and orange, associated with heat.
warm colors
A distortion of an image, often text, to conform to a variety of shapes. For instance, a line of text can be
warping
warped in the shape of an arc or wave.
Any of the 216 colors that are displayed consistently on the web, regardless of browser and computer
web-safe color
platform.
A function that compensates for the different rendering of identical colors under different sources of
white balance
light: incandescent, fluorescent, sunlight, and so on.
A reference point used to represent white. This reference point is used to calculate all other colors in the
white point
image.
A Photoshop Elements tool that steps you through a creation process from start to finish. The wizard informs
wizard
you of all the features you can use at each phase of the creation process; you decide which ones you want, and then you
move to the next step.
Z
Images without specified dimensions.
zero length images
Images without specified dimensions.
zero width images
A lossless compression technique best used for images that contain large areas of a single color.
ZIP encoding
Last updated 1/2/2012