Glossary of Digital Photography and Imaging Terms

Acronyms

AV - Audio Visual

BMP - BitMaP (Windows' native bitmap graphic file format)

CMYK - Cyan, Magenta, Yellow blacK

DPI - Dots per Inch

EPS - Encapsulated PostScript (PostScript format for transferring a graphic image between application and platform)

GIF - Graphic Interchange Format .gif

JPEG - Joint Photographic Experts Group . jpg

LZW - Lempel-Ziv-Welch (The original TIFF compression format)

MP3 - MPEG Audio Layer 3 (part of the MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 technical specifications)

MPEG - Motion Picture Expert Group

PDF - Portable Document Format (Adobe Acrobat native format) .pdf

PNG - Portable Network Graphic .png

PPI - Pixels per Inch

PSD - Photoshop Document format (Adobe Photoshop's native format) .psd

RGB - Red, Green, Blue

TIFF - Tagged Image File Format .tif

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