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The difference in brightness between light and dark areas of an image. Contrast determines the number of
contrast
shades in the image.
The colors at the blue end of the spectrum.
cool colors
A font technology from Adobe that improves on-screen text resolution.
CoolType
An internal part of an Adobe PDF file.
Cos object
Hairline surface cracking seen in old paintings, and the effect used to simulate surface cracking in photo-
craquelure
graphic images.
A product that you make using your photos in Photoshop Elements.
creation
Trimming a portion of an image to improve its composition or to create a frame around it.
cropping
A shape listed in the Custom Shape menu in the options bar. The Custom Shape menu is available
custom shape
when you select the Custom Shape tool.
D
Sharpness or clarity of detail in an image.
definition
A type of coding method used with certain JPEG files. Differential JPEG files are not
differential JPEG files
supported in Photoshop Elements.
A camera that records image data in pixels, which consist of bits of information that a computer can
digital camera
process.
The approximation of an unavailable color through the use of two or more available colors. The color of
dithering
adjacent pixels is changed in an attempt to reproduce the unavailable color.
The selective lightening of any part of an image.
dodging
The smallest unit of a bitmap image (raster image) that can be scanned or displayed.
dot
A measure of the resolution of an image. High dpi settings yield photographs with fine detail and
dots per inch (dpi)
large file size.
A term used to describe Asian fonts, often called CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) fonts. Two
double-byte fonts
bytes, rather than one, are needed to represent each character.
A small application that batch processes images that you drag onto the droplet icon. Photoshop Elements
droplet
does not support droplets.
A two-color grayscale file that uses two custom inks. Photoshop Elements does not support duotone files.
Duotone
E
An ICC (color) profile resident in an image file. This profile determines the color space in which
embedded profile
image data is interpreted.
The last line of readable code in a file. The error "Unexpected end-of-file" indicates that the file you are
end-of-file
trying to work with is damaged.
Encapsulated PostScript. A file format used to save images that will be used in illustration and page-layout
EPS
programs
An Encapsulated PostScript file. A graphic file format that can represent both vector and bitmap data and
EPS file
is supported by virtually all graphic, illustration, and page-layout programs.
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