target audience - the target audience is the specific audience who you are sending the message to.
message - information communicated to the audiences; thought or idea expressed in some form of language and prepared for transmission.
work ethic - responsiblity, attitude, time management, and honesty.
employability skills - certain skills required not only to gain employment, but to progress with an enterprise or an organization.
20/20 Rule - every twenty minutes look twenty feet away for twenty seconds
Right-To-Know Laws - your right to know the hazards in the workplace, your employer has to tell you.
icon - a picture or an image that represents something and sends that message of it quickly.
vector-based graphics - you use points, lines, shapes, and curves to make an image on the computer.
specs/specifications of a project - any rules or requirements for creating a project. The basics that you must use in your project
dialog box (within an application) - a window that comes up to enable communication between a user and the computer. It requires the user to input information that will tell the application what they want it to do. It could also bring information to a user.
palette (within an application) - a palette is all the little boxes with all the tools in the application that you can use. It has many different things you can do, and there are some that are hidden. Your basic palettes will, for the most part, open when you open the application, but there are some in the toolbar that you can enable. The palettes have all the tools you need for what you can do in that application.
guidelines - A general rule, principle, or piece of advice
extensions - A part that is added to something to enlarge or prolong it; a continuation.
contextual menu - a list of commands displayed as a result of a standard keystroke and/or mouse interaction
clipping mask - a shape you are for example going to clip your photo on meaning that you are going to have your photo take the shape of your mask
hue - hue is the color itself. each different hue is a different reflected wavelength of light.
primary colors - red, yellow, blue. no colors can be mixed to make these colors. they are our 3 basic colors
secondary colors - orange, green, violet. 2 primary colors are mixed to make these.
tertiary colors - primary and secondary colors mixed together. red-orange, yellow-orange, yellow-green, blue-green, blue-biolet, and red-violet. primary color is named first
neutral colors - colors that dont show up on the color wheel. almost gray. very low saturations. blacks, grays, whites, and brown. complimentary color pair mixed. used so that the other colors stand out.
resolution - resolution is used for pixel count in digital images. the first number is the number of pixel columns and the second is the number if pixel rows.
file size - file size is the amount of disk space consumed by the file, or how much information is stored within the file. The larger the resolution, the larger the file.
continuous tone image - an image where all variations of color can be represented, images have a virtually unlimited range of color or shades of grays. the digital process copies the effect of a photograph so that the human eye sees an image with unbroken color.
ligatures - they form when two or more letters form and connect. EX: ff, tt
ampersand - the sign for and ex: &
small caps - it is a smaller font that is the size of lowercase letters but all of the letters are in upper case.
lowercase - the smaller letters as apposed to something being uppercase, or bigger letters. ex: this is all typed in lower case.
uppercase - bigger letters as apposed to lowercase. Ex: I HATE WRITING IN UPPERCASE, IT MAKES IT SEEM LIKE I'M YELLING. THIS IS ALL IN UPPERCASE.
flush left - everything is aligned to the left
flush right - everything is aligned to the right. more used for graphics
justified - it is aligned on the left and aligned on the right.
centered - takes each individual line and centers it. this gives a formal feel.
small caps - capital letters that align at the waist-line. (where lower case letters align)
full type family - two sets of numerals: lining and non lining
lining - very uniform, numbers line up at the top and bottom
nonlining - old style numbers
leading - the space in between lines of type
margins - white space on the top, bottom, and sides of the page
kerning - allows you to adjust the space in between individual characters
concept - an idea; something formed in ones mind
final product - the end results
thumbnail - quick sketch to get your thoughts out of your head and onto paper.
initial cap - larger, decorative, capitol letter at the beginning of text/paragraph.
