GCM 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Image File Formats, Lossless Compression, Quarkxpress
22 Apr 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Basic workflow: customer and marketer think of solutions, graphic designer creates files, prepress operator makes the files ready for a printing device, press operator prints the job, post-press binds the job, job is shipped to customer. Resolution independent vector image (unless images are place) Bitmap image (raster): made up from pixels. The bigger you make it the lower the quality gets. For bringing together illustrations, photos, and text. Links to all resources for small file size. Bad for web design because its high resolution so it takes a long time to load. raw is the file type that comes with a high resolution camera. Typically gets filtered through photoshop and then you save it as a psd or. They have a lossy compression which means you lose colour information. 72 ppi- pixels per inch, how many pixels are within an inch on a photograph.
