1080p aspect ratio General 1080p 1080p is a commonly accepted standard in digital resolution among digital displays. The 1080p is a jargon term refering to 1920 pixels in width and 1080 pixels in height with the p meaning progessive video. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

720p aspect ratio General 720p 720p is a progressive HDTV signal format with 720 horizontal lines and an aspect ratio (AR) of 16:9 (1.78:1). HDTV broadcasting standards include a 720p format which has a resolution of 1280×720. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Extrude and Bevel 3d effects Illustrator Extrude & Bevel A 3d effect available in Adobe Illustrator. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Revolve 3d effects Illustrator Revolve A 3d effect available in Adobe Illustrator. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Rotate 3d effects Illustrator Rotate A 3d effect available in Adobe Illustrator. Go to http://gearsidecreative.com

Bevel General Bevel A bevelled edge refers to an edge of a structure that is not perpendicular to the faces of the piece. The words bevel and chamfer overlap in usage. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Bezier General Bezier A Bézier curve is a parametric curve frequently used in computer graphics and related fields. In vector graphics, Bézier curves are used to model smooth curves that can be scaled indefinitely. "Paths," as they are commonly referred to in image manipulation programs. They are named after the French mathematician, Pierre Bezier, who developed a method for defining curves mathematically. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Bit information Computing Bit A bit (a contraction of binary digit) is the basic unit of information in computing and telecommunications. A bit can have only two values: either 1 or 0. A bit can be implemented in hardware by means of a two state device. Eight bits form a byte. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Blog cms Web Blog A blog (a portmanteau of the term web log) is a discussion or informational site published on the World Wide Web and consisting of discrete entries ("posts") typically displayed in reverse chronological order (the most recent post appears first). Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Smart Blur blur filters effects Photoshop Smart Blur A blur filter available in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Blurs an image with precision. You can specify a radius, a threshold, and a blur quality. The Radius value determines the size of the area searched for dissimilar pixels. The Threshold value determines how dissimilar the pixels must be before they are affected. You also can set a mode for the entire selection (Normal) or for the edges of color transitions (Edge Only and Overlay Edge). Where significant contrast occurs, Edge Only applies black-and-white edges, and Overlay Edge applies white. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Gaussian Blur blur filters effects Photoshop Gaussian Blur A blur filter available in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Quickly blurs a selection by an adjustable amount. Gaussian refers to the bell-shaped curve that is generated when Photoshop applies a weighted average to the pixels. The Gaussian Blur filter adds low-frequency detail and can produce a hazy effect. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Radial Blur blur filters effects Photoshop Radial Blur A blur filter available in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Simulates the blur of a zooming or rotating camera to produce a soft blur. Choose Spin to blur along concentric circular lines, and then specify a degree of rotation. Choose Zoom to blur along radial lines, as if zooming into or out of the image, and specify a value from 1 to 100. Blur quality ranges from Draft (for fast but grainy results) or Good and Best for smoother results, which are indistinguishable from each other except on a large selection. Specify the origin of the blur by dragging the pattern in the Blur Center box. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Field Blur blur filters Photoshop Field Blur A blur filter available in Adobe Photoshop. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Iris Blur blur filters Photoshop Iris Blur A blur filter available in Adobe Photoshop. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Tilt-Shift blur filters Photoshop Tilt-Shift A blur filter available in Adobe Photoshop. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Lens Blur blur filters Photoshop Lens Blur A blur filter available in Adobe Photoshop. Adds blur to an image to give the effect of a narrower depth of field so that some objects in the image stay in focus and others areas are blurred. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Box Blur blur filters Photoshop Box Blur A blur filter available in Adobe Photoshop. Blurs an image based on the average color value of neighboring pixels. This filter is useful for creating special effects. You can adjust the size of the area used to calculate the average value for a given pixel; a larger radius results in greater blurring. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Surface Blur blur filters Photoshop Surface Blur A blur filter available in Adobe Photoshop. Blurs an image while preserving edges. This filter is useful for creating special effects and for removing noise or graininess. The Radius option specifies the size of the area sampled for the blur. The Threshold option controls how much the tonal values of neighboring pixels must diverge from the center pixel value before being part of the blur. Pixels with tonal value differences less than the Threshold value are excluded from the blur. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Motion Blur blur filters Photoshop Motion Blur A blur filter available in Adobe Photoshop. Blurs in the specified direction (from –360º to +360º) and at a specified intensity (from 1 to 999). The filter’s effect is analogous to taking a picture of a moving object with a fixed exposure time. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Blur blur filters Photoshop Blur A blur filter available in Adobe Photoshop. Eliminate noise where significant color transitions occur in an image. Blur filters smooth transitions by averaging the pixels next to the hard edges of defined lines and shaded areas. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Blur More blur filters Photoshop Blur More A blur filter available in Adobe Photoshop. Eliminate noise where significant color transitions occur in an image. Blur filters smooth transitions by averaging the pixels next to the hard edges of defined lines and shaded areas. The effect of the Blur More filter is three or four times stronger than that of the Blur filter. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Average blur filters Photoshop Average A blur filter available in Adobe Photoshop. Finds the average color of an image or selection, and then fills the image or selection with the color to create a smooth look. For example, if you select an area of grass, the filter changes the area into a homogeneous patch of green. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Shape Blur blur filters Photoshop Shape Blur A blur filter available in Adobe Photoshop. Uses the specified kernel to create the blur. Choose a kernel from the list of custom shape presets, and use the radius slider to adjust its size. You can load different shape libraries by clicking the triangle and choosing from the list. Radius determines the size of the kernel; the larger the kernel, the greater the blur. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Accented Edges brush strokes filters effects Photoshop Accented Edges A brush stroke filter available in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Accentuates the edges of an image. When the edge brightness control is set to a high value, the accents resemble white chalk; when set to a low value, the accents resemble black ink. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Sumi-e brush strokes filters effects Photoshop Sumi-e A brush stroke filter available in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Paints an image in Japanese style, as if with a fully saturated brush applied to rice paper. Sumi‑e creates soft, blurred edges with rich, inky blacks. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Dark Strokes brush strokes filters effects Photoshop Dark Strokes A brush stroke filter available in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Paints dark areas with short, tight, dark strokes, and lighter areas with long, white strokes. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Crosshatch brush strokes filters effects Photoshop Crosshatch A brush stroke filter available in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Preserves the details and features of the original image while adding texture and roughening the edges of the colored areas with simulated pencil hatching. The Strength option (with values from 1 to 3) determines the number of hatching passes. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Ink Outlines brush strokes filters effects Photoshop Ink Outlines A brush stroke filter available in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Redraws an image with fine narrow lines over the original details, in pen-and-ink style. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Angled Strokes brush strokes filters effects Photoshop Angled Strokes A brush stroke filter available in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Repaints an image using diagonal strokes, with lighter and darker areas painted in strokes going in opposite directions. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Sprayed Strokes brush strokes filters effects Photoshop Sprayed Strokes A brush stroke filter available in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Repaints an image, using its dominant colors, with angled, sprayed strokes of color. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Spatter brush strokes filters effects Photoshop Spatter A brush stroke filter available in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Replicates the effect of a spatter airbrush. Increasing the options simplifies the overall effect. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

RAW .raw photography format File Extension RAW A camera raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, image scanner, or motion picture film scanner. Raw files are so named because they are not yet processed and therefore are not ready to be printed or edited with a bitmap graphics editor. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Candid Photography Candid A candid photograph is a photograph that is captured without creating a posed appearance. This is achieved by avoiding prior preparation of the subject and by either surprising the subject or by not distracting the subject during the process of taking photos. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Axis Typography Axis A Cartesian coordinate system specifies each point uniquely in a plane by a pair of numerical coordinates, which are the signed distances from the point to two fixed perpendicular directed lines, measured in the same unit of length. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Centimeter length centimetre Unit Centimeter A centimeter is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one hundredth of a metre, which is the SI base unit of length. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Character Typography Character A character, or glyph, is an element of writing: an individual mark on a written medium that contributes to the meaning of what is written. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

CCD image sensor camera acronyms Photography CCD A charge-coupled device (CCD) is a device for the movement of electrical charge, usually from within the device to an area where the charge can be manipulated, for example conversion into a digital value. This is achieved by "shifting" the signals between stages within the device one at a time. CCDs move charge between capacitive bins in the device, with the shift allowing for the transfer of charge between bins. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Saturation Color Theory Saturation A chromatic purity; freedom from dilution with white. Saturation is the intensity of a hue from grey. At maximum saturation a color would contain no grey at all. At minimum saturation, a color would contain mostly grey. Tutorial Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Cicero typography Unit Cicero A cicero is a unit of measure used in typography in Italy, France and other continental European countries. It is 1⁄6 of the historical French inch, and is divided into 12 points, known in English as French points or Didot points. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Clipping Path Photoshop Clipping Path A clipping path (or "deep etch"[1]) is a closed vector path, or shape, used to cut out a 2D image in image editing software. Anything inside the path will be included after the clipping path is applied; anything outside the path will be omitted from the output. Applying the clipping path results in a hard (aliased) or soft (anti-aliased) edge, depending on the image editor's capabilities. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Bowl anatomy Typography Bowl A closed rounded stroke is called a bowl in b d o p q D O P Q R; B has two bowls. Principles of Typography Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Filter Gallery filters Photoshop Filter Gallery A collection of filters available in Adobe Photoshop. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Registration Color Colour prepress on-press Print Registration (Color) A color (represented by black) that is made up of all colors. Used to register separations on a traditional printing press. Registration is recognized by the Jetrion. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Shade Color Theory Shade A color produced by a pigment or dye mixture having some black in it. Tutorial Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Color Cast Colour General Color Cast A colour cast is a tint of a particular colour, usually unwanted, which affects the whole of a photographic image evenly. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

CSV acronyms Programming CSV A comma-separated values (CSV) file stores tabular data (numbers and text) in plain-text form. Plain text means that the file is a sequence of characters, with no data that has to be interpreted instead, as binary numbers. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Compound Path General Compound Path A compound path results from the combination of multiple clipping paths (inclusive and exclusive) and the Boolean operations that ultimately determine what the combined path contains. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Font fundamental Typography Font A computer font (or font) is an electronic data file containing a set of glyphs, characters, or symbols such as dingbats. Although the term font first referred to a set of metal type sorts in one style and size, since the 1990s it is generally used to refer to a scalable set of digital shapes that may be printed at many different sizes. There are three basic kinds of computer font file data formats: Bitmap, Outline, and Stroke. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

CMS content management system acronyms fundamental Web CMS A content management system is a computer program that allows publishing, editing and modifying content as well as maintenance from a central interface. Such systems of content management provide procedures to manage workflow in a collaborative environment. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Cookie cookies Web Cookie A cookie, also known as an HTTP cookie, web cookie, or browser cookie, is usually a small piece of data sent from a website and stored in a user's web browser while a user is browsing a website. When the user browses the same website in the future, the data stored in the cookie can be retrieved by the website to notify the website of the user's previous activity. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Identity Branding Identity A corporate identity is the overall image of a corporation or firm or business in the minds of diverse publics, such as customers and investors and employees. It is a primary task of the corporate communications department to maintain and build this identity to accord with and facilitate the attainment of business objectives. It is usually visibly manifested by way of branding and the use of trademarks. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Darkroom dark room Photography Darkroom A darkroom is a room that can be made completely dark to allow the processing of light sensitive photographic materials, including photographic film and photographic paper. Darkrooms have been created and used since the inception of photography in the early 19th century. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Database sql mysql Programming Database A database is an organized collection of data. The data is typically organized to model relevant aspects of reality (for example, the availability of rooms in hotels), in a way that supports processes requiring this information (for example, finding a hotel with vacancies). Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Dekameter Unit Dekameter A decametre or dekametre (American spelling: dekameter, earlier decameter; symbol dam, sometimes Dm or dkm) is a very rarely used unit of length in the metric system, equal to ten metres, the SI base unit of length.

Densitometer on-press Print Densitometer A device that measures the degree of darkness (the optical density) of a photographic or semitransparent material or of a reflecting surface. The densitometer is basically a light source aimed at a photoelectric cell. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Diacritics Typography Diacritics A diacritical mark (or diacritical point, diacritical sign) is a glyph added to a letter, or basic glyph. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Die Cut on-press Print Die Cut A die is a specialized tool used in manufacturing industries to cut or shape material using a press. Like molds and stencils, dies are generally customized to the item they are used to create. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Free Distort distort and transform effects Illustrator Free Distort A distort and transform effect available in Adobe Illustrator. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Pucker and Bloat distort and transform effects Illustrator Pucker & Bloat A distort and transform effect available in Adobe Illustrator. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Roughen distort and transform effects Illustrator Roughen A distort and transform effect available in Adobe Illustrator. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Transform distort and transform effects Illustrator Transform A distort and transform effect available in Adobe Illustrator. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Tweak distort and transform effects Illustrator Tweak A distort and transform effect available in Adobe Illustrator. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Twist distort and transform effects Illustrator Twist A distort and transform effect available in Adobe Illustrator. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Zig Zag distort and transform effects Illustrator Zig Zag A distort and transform effect available in Adobe Illustrator. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Ocean Ripple distort filters effects Photoshop Ocean Ripple A distort filter available in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Adds randomly spaced ripples to the surface of the image so that it appears to be underwater. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Glass distort filters effects Photoshop Glass A distort filter available in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Makes an image appear as if it were being viewed through different types of glass. You can choose a glass effect or create your own glass surface as a Photoshop file and apply it. You can adjust scaling, distortion, and smoothness settings. When using surface controls with a file, follow the instructions for the Displace filter. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Diffuse Glow distort filters effects Photoshop Diffuse Glow A distort filter available in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Renders an image as though it were viewed through a soft diffusion filter. The filter adds see-through white noise, with the glow fading from the center of a selection. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Polar Coordinates distort filters Photoshop Polor Coordinates A distort filter available in Adobe Photoshop. Converts a selection from its rectangular to polar coordinates, and vice versa, according to a selected option. You can use this filter to create a cylinder anamorphosis—an art form popular in the 18th century—in which the distorted image appears normal when viewed in a mirrored cylinder. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Ripple distort filters Photoshop Ripple A distort filter available in Adobe Photoshop. Creates an undulating pattern on a selection, like ripples on the surface of a pond. For greater control, use the Wave filter. Options include the number and size of ripples. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

ZigZag zig zag distort filters Photoshop ZigZag A distort filter available in Adobe Photoshop. Distorts a selection radially, depending on the radius of the pixels in your selection. The Ridges option sets the number of direction reversals of the zigzag from the center of the selection to its edge. You also specify how to displace the pixels: Pond Ripples displaces pixels to the upper-left or lower right, Out From Center displaces pixels toward or away from the center of the selection, and Around Center rotates pixels around the center. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Shear distort filters Photoshop Shear A distort filter available in Adobe Photoshop. Distorts an image along a curve. Specify the curve by dragging the line in the box. You can adjust any point along the curve. Click Default to change the curve back to a straight line. In addition, you choose how to treat undistorted areas. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Spherize distort filters Photoshop Spherize A distort filter available in Adobe Photoshop. Gives objects a 3D effect by wrapping a selection around a spherical shape, distorting the image and stretching it to fit the selected curve. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Twirl distort filters Photoshop Twirl A distort filter available in Adobe Photoshop. Rotates a selection more sharply in the center than at the edges. Specifying an angle produces a twirl pattern. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Pinch distort filters Photoshop Pinch A distort filter available in Adobe Photoshop. Squeezes a selection. A positive value up to 100% shifts a selection toward its center; a negative value up to – 100% shifts a selection outward. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Displace distort filters Photoshop Displace A distort filter available in Adobe Photoshop. Uses an image, called a displacement map, to determine how to distort a selection. For example, using a parabola-shaped displacement map, you can create an image that appears to be printed on a cloth held up by its corners. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Wave distort filters Photoshop Wave A distort filter available in Adobe Photoshop. Works much as the Ripple filter does, but with greater control. Options include the number of wave generators, wavelength (distance from one wave crest to the next), height of the wave, and wave type: Sine (rolling), Triangle, or Square. The Randomize option applies random values. You can also define undistorted areas. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Favicon fav icon Web Favicon A favicon, also known as a shortcut icon, Web site icon, URL icon, or bookmark icon, is a file containing one or more small icons, most commonly 16×16 pixels, associated with a particular Web site or Web page. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Figure Space Typography Figure Space A figure space is a typographic unit equal to the size of a single typographic figure (numeral or letter), minus leading. Its size can fluctuate somewhat depending on which font is being used. In fonts with monospaced digits, it is equal to the width of one digit. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Lens Correction filters Photoshop Lens Correction A filter available in Adobe Photoshop. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Liquify filters Photoshop Liquify A filter available in Adobe Photoshop. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Oil Paint filters Photoshop Oil Paint A filter available in Adobe Photoshop. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Vanishing Point filters Photoshop Vanishing Point A filter available in Adobe Photoshop. The Vanishing Point feature preserves correct perspective in edits of images that contain perspective planes (for instance, the sides of a building or any rectangular object). Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Firewall Computing Firewall A firewall can either be software-based or hardware-based and is used to help keep a network secure. Its primary objective is to control the incoming and outgoing network traffic by analyzing the data packets and determining whether it should be allowed through or not, based on a predetermined rule set. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Fisheye Lens Photography Fisheye Lens A fisheye lens is an ultra wide-angle lens that produces strong visual distortion intended to create a wide panoramic or hemispherical image. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Flash Photography Flash A flash is a device used in photography producing a flash of artificial light (typically 1/1000 to 1/200 of a second) at a color temperature of about 5500 K to help illuminate a scene. A major purpose of a flash is to illuminate a dark scene. Other uses are capturing quickly moving objects or changing the quality of light. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Coating on-press Print Coating A flood of varnish-like liquid to treat material to be more receptive to ink. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Framing Photography Framing A frame serves the double purpose of making a more aesthetically pleasing image and keeping the focus on the framed object(s) – it can also be used as a repoussoir, to direct attention back into the scene. It adds depth to the image, and can add interest to the picture when the frame is thematically related to the object being framed. (Often confused with Field Size) Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Full-Frame Camera Photography Full-Frame Camera A full-frame digital SLR is a digital single-lens reflex camera (DSLR) fitted with an image sensor that is the same size as a 35 mm (36×24 mm) film frame. This is in contrast to cameras with smaller sensors, typically of a size equivalent to APS-C-size film, much smaller than a full 35 mm frame. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Gigabyte gb Computing Gigabyte A Gigabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information storage. The prefix giga means 109 in the International System of Units (SI), therefore 1 gigabyte is 1000000000bytes. The unit symbol for the gigabyte is GB or Gbyte. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Glyph Typography Glyph A glyph is an element of writing: an individual mark on a written medium that contributes to the meaning of what is written. Principles of Typography Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Grapheme ligature Typography Grapheme A grapheme is the smallest semantically distinguishing unit in a written language, analogous to the phonemes of spoken languages. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Grey Card Gray Photography Grey Card A grey card is a middle gray reference, typically used together with a reflective light meter, as a way to produce consistent image exposure and/or color in film and photography. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Thermocouple on-press Print Thermocouple A kind of thermometer consisting of two wires of different metals that are joined at both ends; one junction is at the temperature to be measured and the other is held at a fixed lower temperature; the current generated in the circuit is proportional to the temperature difference. Used to measure ink temperatures on digital printing presses. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Lab Color Colour CIELAB space Color Mode Lab A Lab color space is a color-opponent space with dimension L for lightness and a and b for the color-opponent dimensions, based on nonlinearly compressed CIE XYZ color space coordinates. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Drop Cap Typography Drop Cap A large initial letter that drops below the first line of a paragraph, usually used at the beginning of a section or chapter of a book. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Exposure Meter Photography Exposure Meter A light meter is a device used to measure the amount of light. In photography, a light meter is often used to determine the proper exposure for a photograph. Typically a light meter will include a computer, either digital or analog, which allows the photographer to determine which shutter speed and f-number should be selected for an optimum exposure, given a certain lighting situation and film speed. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

LED acronyms Computing LED A light-emitting diode (LED) is a semiconductor light source. LEDs are used as indicator lamps in many devices and are increasingly used for other lighting. Appearing as practical electronic components in 1962, early LEDs emitted low-intensity red light, but modern versions are available across the visible, ultraviolet, and infrared wavelengths, with very high brightness. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

LCD acronyms Computing LCD A liquid crystal display (LCD) is a flat panel display, electronic visual display, or video display that uses the light modulating properties of liquid crystals. Liquid crystals do not emit light directly. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

LAN acronyms WAN Web LAN A local area network (LAN) is a computer network that interconnects computers in a limited area such as a home, school, computer laboratory, or office building using network media. The defining characteristics of LANs, in contrast to wide area networks (WANs), include their usually higher data-transfer rates, smaller geographic area, and lack of a need for leased telecommunication lines. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Arm anatomy Typography Arm A longer horizontal stroke at the top or bottom, as in E F L T, is called an arm. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Loupe loop Print Loupe A loupe is a simple, small magnification device used to see small details more closely. Unlike a magnifying glass, a loupe does not have an attached handle, and its focusing lens(es) are contained in an opaque cylinder or cone or fold into an enclosing housing that protects the lenses when not in use. Loupes are also called hand lenses (or nose lenses). Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Stem anatomy Typography Stem A main vertical stroke is called a stem. The letter m has three, the left, middle, and right stems. Principles of Typography Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Color Separations Colour prepress on-press Print Color Separations A means of dividing a full color photograph into four separate components, corresponding to the four primary colors used in process color printing—cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. Process color printing involves overprinting halftone dots of each of these four colors in varying densities, the various combinations producing the wide range of reproducible colors. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Monochromatic Colors Colours Color Theory Monochromatic Colors A monochromatic color scheme consists of different values (tints and shades) of one single color. These color schemes are easy to get right and can be very effective, soothing and authoritative. Kuler by Adobe Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Monopod, Unipod Photography Monopod A monopod, also called a unipod, is a single staff or pole used to help support cameras, video cameras, binoculars, rifles or other precision instruments in the field. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Monospaced Typography Monospaced A monospaced font, also called a fixed-pitch, fixed-width or non-proportional font, is a font whose letters and characters each occupy the same amount of horizontal space. This contrasts with variable-width fonts, where the letters differ in size from one another. The first monospaced typefaces were designed for typewriters, which could only move the same distance forward with each letter typed. This also meant that monospaced fonts need not be typeset like variable width fonts and were, arguably, easier to deal with. Principles of Typography Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Iris Photography Iris A natural optical system that has a diaphragm and an aperture is the human eye. The iris is the diaphragm, and the opening in the iris of the eye (the pupil) is the aperture. An analogous device in a photographic lens is called an iris diaphragm. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Host Web Host A network host is a computer connected to a computer network. A network host may offer information resources, services, and applications to users or other nodes on the network. A network host is a network node that is assigned a network layer host address. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Add Noise noise filters Photoshop Add Noise A noise filter available in Adobe Photoshop. Applies random pixels to an image, simulating the effect of shooting pictures on high-speed film. You can also use the Add Noise filter to reduce banding in feathered selections or graduated fills or to give a more realistic look to heavily retouched areas. Options for noise distribution include Uniform and Gaussian. Uniform distributes color values of noise using random numbers between 0 and plus or minus the specified value, creating a subtle effect. Gaussian distributes color values of noise along a bell-shaped curve, creating a speckled effect. The Monochromatic option applies the filter to only the tonal elements in the image without changing the colors. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Despeckle noise filters Photoshop Despeckle A noise filter available in Adobe Photoshop. Detects the edges in an image (areas where significant color changes occur) and blurs all of the selection except those edges. This blurring removes noise while preserving detail. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Dust and Scratches noise filters Photoshop Dust & Scratches A noise filter available in Adobe Photoshop. Reduces noise by changing dissimilar pixels. To achieve a balance between sharpening the image and hiding defects, try various combinations of Radius and Threshold settings. Or apply the filter to selected areas in the image. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Median noise filters Photoshop Median A noise filter available in Adobe Photoshop. Reduces noise in an image by blending the brightness of pixels within a selection. The filter searches the radius of a pixel selection for pixels of similar brightness, discarding pixels that differ too much from adjacent pixels, and replaces the center pixel with the median brightness value of the searched pixels. This filter is useful for eliminating or reducing the effect of motion on an image. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Reduce Noise noise filters Photoshop Reduce Noise A noise filter available in Adobe Photoshop. Reduces noise while preserving edges based on user settings affecting the overall image or individual channels. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Align palette window Illustrator Align A palette used in Adobe Illustrator. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Appearance palette Illustrator Appearance A palette used in Adobe Illustrator. Tutorial Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Artboards palette window Illustrator Artboards A palette used in Adobe Illustrator. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Attributes palette window overprint prepress Illustrator Attributes A palette used in Adobe Illustrator. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Brushes palette window Illustrator Brushes A palette used in Adobe Illustrator. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Color Guide palette window Illustrator Color Guide A palette used in Adobe Illustrator. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Document Info palette window Illustrator Document Info A palette used in Adobe Illustrator. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Flattener Preview palette window Illustrator Flattener Preview A palette used in Adobe Illustrator. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Gradient palette window Illustrator Gradient A palette used in Adobe Illustrator. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Graphic Styles palette window Illustrator Graphic Styles A palette used in Adobe Illustrator. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Image Trace palette window Illustrator Image Trace A palette used in Adobe Illustrator. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Links palette window Illustrator Links A palette used in Adobe Illustrator. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Magic Wand palette window Illustrator Magic Wand A palette used in Adobe Illustrator. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Pathfinder palette window Illustrator Pathfinder A palette used in Adobe Illustrator. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Pattern Options palette window Illustrator Pattern Options A palette used in Adobe Illustrator. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Separations Preview palette window Illustrator Separations Preview A palette used in Adobe Illustrator. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Stroke palette window Illustrator Stroke A palette used in Adobe Illustrator. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

SVG Interactivity palette window Illustrator SVG Interactivity A palette used in Adobe Illustrator. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Symbols palette window Illustrator Symbols A palette used in Adobe Illustrator. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Transform palette window Illustrator Transform A palette used in Adobe Illustrator. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Transparency palette window Illustrator Transparency A palette used in Adobe Illustrator. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Type palette window Illustrator Type A palette used in Adobe Illustrator. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Variables palette window Illustrator Variables A palette used in Adobe Illustrator. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Actions palette window Photoshop Actions A palette used in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Color palette window Photoshop Color A palette used in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Info palette window Photoshop Info A palette used in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Layers palette window Photoshop Layers A palette used in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Navigator palette window Photoshop Navigator A palette used in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Swatches palette window Photoshop Swatches A palette used in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

3D palette window Photoshop 3D A palette used in Adobe Photoshop. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Adjustments palette window Photoshop Adjustments A palette used in Adobe Photoshop. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Brush palette window Photoshop Brush A palette used in Adobe Photoshop. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Brush Presets palette window Photoshop Brush Presets A palette used in Adobe Photoshop. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Channels palette window Photoshop Channels A palette used in Adobe Photoshop. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Character palette window Photoshop Character A palette used in Adobe Photoshop. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Character Styles palette window Photoshop Character Styles A palette used in Adobe Photoshop. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Clone Source palette window Photoshop Clone Source A palette used in Adobe Photoshop. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Histogram palette window Photoshop Histogram A palette used in Adobe Photoshop. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

History palette window Photoshop History A palette used in Adobe Photoshop. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Layer Comps palette window Photoshop Layer Comps A palette used in Adobe Photoshop. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Measurement Log palette window Photoshop Measurement Log A palette used in Adobe Photoshop. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Notes palette window Photoshop Notes A palette used in Adobe Photoshop. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Paragraph palette window Photoshop Paragraph A palette used in Adobe Photoshop. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Paragraph Styles palette window Photoshop Paragraph Styles A palette used in Adobe Photoshop. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Paths palette window Photoshop Paths A palette used in Adobe Photoshop. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Properties palette window Photoshop Properties A palette used in Adobe Photoshop. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Styles palette window Photoshop Styles A palette used in Adobe Photoshop. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Timeline palette window Photoshop Timeline A palette used in Adobe Photoshop. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Tool Presets palette window Photoshop Tool Presets A palette used in Adobe Photoshop. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Pancake Lens Photography Pancake Lens A pancake lens is colloquial term for a flat, thin lens (short barrel), generally a normal or slightly wide prime lens for a camera. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Pangram the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog Typography Pangram A pangram or holoalphabetic sentence for a given alphabet is a sentence using every letter of the alphabet at least once. Pangrams have been used to display typefaces, test equipment, and develop skills in handwriting, calligraphy, and keyboarding. The quick brown fox... Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Panorama Photography Panorama A panorama is any wide-angle view or representation of a physical space, whether in painting, drawing, photography, film/video, or a three-dimensional model. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Widow Typography Widow A paragraph-ending line that falls at the beginning of the following page/column, thus separated from the rest of the text. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Orphan Typography Orphan A paragraph-opening line that appears by itself at the bottom of a page/column, or a word, part of a word, or very short line that appears by itself at the end of a paragraph. Orphans result in too much white space between paragraphs or at the bottom of a page. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Offset Path path effects Illustrator Offset Path A path effect available in Adobe Illustrator. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Outline Object path effects Illustrator Outline Object A path effect available in Adobe Illustrator. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Outline Stroke path effects Illustrator Outline Stroke A path effect available in Adobe Illustrator. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Hard Mix pathfinder effects Illustrator Hard Mix A pathfinder effect available in Adobe Illustrator. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Soft Mix pathfinder effects Illustrator Soft Mix A pathfinder effect available in Adobe Illustrator. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Trap pathfinder effects Illustrator Trap A pathfinder effect available in Adobe Illustrator. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Permalink Web Permalink A permalink (portmanteau of permanent link) is a URL that points to a specific blog or forum entry after it has passed from the front page to the archives. Because a permalink remains unchanged indefinitely, it is less susceptible to link rot. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

PC windows microsoft Computing PC A personal computer (PC) is any general-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and original sales price make it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be operated directly by an end-user with no intervening computer operator. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Petabyte pb Computing Petabyte A petabyte (derived from the SI prefix peta- ) is a unit of information equal to one quadrillion (short scale) bytes, or 1 billiard (long scale) bytes. The unit symbol for the petabyte is PB. The prefix peta (P) indicates the fifth power to 1000: 1 PB = 1000000000000000B = 10005 B = 1015 B = 1 million gigabytes = 1 thousand terabytes Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Overexposure Photography Overexposure A photograph may be described as overexposed when it has a loss of highlight detail, that is, when important bright parts of an image are "washed out" or effectively all white, known as "blown out highlights" or "clipped whites".

Underexposure Photography Underexposure A photograph may be described as underexposed when it has a loss of shadow detail, that is, when important dark areas are "muddy" or indistinguishable from black, known as "blocked up shadows" (or sometimes "crushed shadows," "crushed blacks," or "clipped blacks," especially in video). Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Pica typography Unit Pica A pica is a typographic unit of measure corresponding to 1/72 of its respective foot, and therefore to 1/6 of an inch. The pica contains 12 point units of measure. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Pigment Color Colour on-press Print Pigment A pigment is a material that changes the color of reflected or transmitted light as the result of wavelength-selective absorption. This physical process differs from fluorescence, phosphorescence, and other forms of luminescence, in which a material emits light. Combined with a liquid "vehicle" to create printing ink. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Pointillize pixelate filters effects Photoshop Pointillize A pixelate filter available in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Breaks up the color in an image into randomly placed dots, as in a pointillist painting, and uses the background color as a canvas area between the dots. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Crystallize pixelate filters effects Photoshop Crystallize A pixelate filter available in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Clumps pixels into a solid color in a polygon shape. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Mezzotint pixelate filters effects Photoshop Mezzotint A pixelate filter available in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Converts an image to a random pattern of black-and-white areas or of fully saturated colors in a color image. To use the filter, choose a dot pattern from the Type menu in the Mezzotint dialog box. http://gearsidecreative.com

Color Halftone colour pixelate filters effects Photoshop Color Halftone A pixelate filter available in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Simulates the effect of using an enlarged halftone screen on each channel of the image. For each channel, the filter divides the image into rectangles and replaces each rectangle with a circle. The circle size is proportional to the brightness of the rectangle. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Mosaic pixelate filters Photoshop Mosaic A pixelate filter available in Adobe Photoshop. Clumps pixels into square blocks. The pixels in a given block are the same color, and the colors of the blocks represent the colors in the selection. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Facet pixelate filters Photoshop Facet A pixelate filter available in Adobe Photoshop. Clumps pixels of solid or similar colors into blocks of like-colored pixels. You can use this filter to make a scanned image look hand-painted or to make a realistic image resemble an abstract painting. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Fragment pixelate filters Photoshop Fragment A pixelate filter available in Adobe Photoshop. Creates four copies of the pixels in the selection, averages them, and offsets them from each other. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Step and Repeat prepress Print Step & Repeat A printed design in which an element is copied and reproduced over a given area, maintaining equal spacing and direction between elements to create a pattern. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Prototype General Prototype A prototype is an early sample or model built to test a concept or process or to act as a thing to be replicated or learned from. It is a term used in a variety of contexts, including semantics, design, electronics, and software programming. A prototype is designed to test and trial a new design to enhance precision by system analysts and users. Prototyping serves to provide specifications for a real, working system rather than a theoretical one. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Proximity Sensor prox on-press Print Proximity Sensor A proximity sensor (or "prox sensor") is a sensor able to detect the presence of nearby objects without any physical contact. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Pull Quote Typography Pull Quote A pull quote (also known as a lift-out quote) is a quotation or excerpt from an article that is typically placed in a larger or distinctive typeface on the same page, serving to entice readers into an article or to highlight a key topic. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Chroma Color Theory Chroma A quality of color combining hue and saturation. Tutorial Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Rangefinder Photography Rangefinder A rangefinder is a device that measures distance from the observer to a target, for the purposes of surveying, navigation, determining focus in photography, choosing a golf club, or accurately aiming a weapon. Some devices use active methods to measure (such as sonar, laser, or radar); others measure distance using trigonometry (stadiametric rangefinders and parallax, or coincidence rangefinders). Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

RIP acronyms prepress Print RIP A raster image processor (RIP) is a component used in a printing system which produces a raster image also known as a bitmap. The bitmap is then sent to a printing device for output. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Router Computing Router A router is a device that forwards data packets between computer networks, creating an overlay internetwork. A router is connected to two or more data lines from different networks. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Secondary Colors Colours Color Theory Secondary Colors A secondary color is a color made by mixing two primary colors in a given color space. Tutorial Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Adhesive Bleed on-press Print Adhesive Bleed A seeping or oozing of the adhesive material from pressure-sensitive label stock caused by cold-flow or pressure produced by clamps or other means. Also called ooze, adhesive ooze, and adhesive strike-through. This exposed adhesive will accumulate on rollers, the plate, and may clog nozzels in digital inkjet printers. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Self-Timer Photography Self-Timer A self-timer is a device on a camera that gives a delay between pressing the shutter release and the shutter's firing. It is most commonly used to let photographers to take a photo of themselves (often with the family), hence the name. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Unsharp Mask sharpen filters Photoshop Unsharp Mask A sharpen filter available in Adobe Photoshop. Find the areas in the image where significant color changes occur and sharpen them. For professional color correction, use the Unsharp Mask filter to adjust the contrast of edge detail and produce a lighter and darker line on each side of the edge. This process emphasizes the edge and creates the illusion of a sharper image. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Sharpen Edges sharpen filters Photoshop Sharpen Edges A sharpen filter available in Adobe Photoshop. Find the areas in the image where significant color changes occur and sharpen them. The Sharpen Edges filter sharpens only edges while preserving the overall smoothness of the image. Use this filter to sharpen edges without specifying an amount. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Sharpen sharpen filters Photoshop Sharpen A sharpen filter available in Adobe Photoshop. Focus a selection and improve its clarity. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Sharpen More sharpen filters Photoshop Sharpen More A sharpen filter available in Adobe Photoshop. Focus a selection and improve its clarity. The Sharpen More filter applies a stronger sharpening effect than does the Sharpen filter. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Smart Sharpen sharpen filters Photoshop Smart Sharpen A sharpen filter available in Adobe Photoshop. Sharpens an image by letting you set the sharpening algorithm or control the amount of sharpening that occurs in shadows and highlights. This is the recommended way to sharpen if you don’t have a particular sharpening filter in mind. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Bar crossbar anatomy Typography Bar A short horizontal stroke, as in the center of e f t A and the middle stroke of E F, is called a bar. Principles of Typography Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

SLR acronyms Photography SLR A single-lens reflex (SLR) camera is a camera that typically uses a mirror and prism system (hence "reflex", from the mirror's reflection) that permits the photographer to view through the lens and see exactly what will be captured, contrary to viewfinder cameras where the image could be significantly different from what will be captured. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Charcoal sketch filters effects Photoshop Charcoal A sketch filter available in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Creates a posterized, smudged effect. Major edges are boldly drawn, and midtones are sketched using a diagonal stroke. Charcoal is the foreground color, and the background is the color of the paper. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Note Paper sketch filters effects Photoshop Note Paper A sketch filter available in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Creates an image that appears to be constructed of handmade paper. This filter simplifies images and combines the effects of the Stylize > Emboss and Texture > Grain filters. Dark areas of the image appear as holes in the top layer of paper, revealing the background color. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Plaster sketch filters effects Photoshop Plaster A sketch filter available in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Molds an image from 3D plaster, and then colorizes the result using the foreground and background color. Dark areas are raised, and light areas are recessed. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Torn Edges sketch filters effects Photoshop Torn Edges A sketch filter available in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Reconstructs the image so that it appears composed of ragged, torn pieces of paper, and then colorizes the image using the foreground and background colors. This filter is particularly useful for text or high-contrast objects. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Chalk and Charcoal sketch filters effects Photoshop Chalk & Charcoal A sketch filter available in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Redraws highlights and midtones with a solid midtone gray background drawn in coarse chalk. Shadow areas are replaced with black diagonal charcoal lines. The charcoal is drawn in the foreground color; the chalk, in the background color. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Chrome sketch filters effects Photoshop Chrome A sketch filter available in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Renders the image as if it had a polished chrome surface. Highlights are high points, and shadows are low points in the reflecting surface. After applying the filter, use the Levels dialog box to add more contrast to the image. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Conte Crayon conté sketch filters effects Photoshop Conté Crayon A sketch filter available in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Replicates the texture of dense dark and pure white Conté crayons on an image. The Conté Crayon filter uses the foreground color for dark areas and the background color for light areas. For a truer effect, change the foreground color to one of the common Conté Crayon colors (black, sepia, or sanguine) before applying the filter. For a muted effect, change the background color to white, add some of the foreground color to the white background, and then apply the filter. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Stamp sketch filters effects Photoshop Stamp A sketch filter available in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Simplifies the image so that it appears to be created with a rubber or wood stamp. This filter is best used with black-and-white images. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Reticulation sketch filters effects Photoshop Reticulation A sketch filter available in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Simulates the controlled shrinking and distortion of film emulsion to create an image that appears clumped in the shadows and lightly grained in the highlights. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Halftone Pattern sketch filters effects Photoshop Halftone Pattern A sketch filter available in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Simulates the effect of a halftone screen while maintaining the continuous range of tones. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Photocopy sketch filters effects Photoshop Photocopy A sketch filter available in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Simulates the effect of photocopying an image. Large dark areas tend to be copied only around their edges, and midtones fall away to either solid black or solid white. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Bas Relief sketch filters effects Photoshop Bas Relief A sketch filter available in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Transforms an image so that it appears carved in low relief and lit to accent the surface variations. Dark areas of the image take on the foreground color, and light colors use the background color. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Water Paper sketch filters effects Photoshop Water Paper A sketch filter available in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Uses blotchy daubs that appear painted onto fibrous, damp paper, causing the colors to flow and blend. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Graphic Pen sketch filters effects Photoshop Graphic Pen A sketch filter available in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Uses fine, linear ink strokes to capture the details in the original image. The effect is especially striking with scanned images. The filter replaces color in the original image, using the foreground color for ink and the background color for paper. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Skeuomorphism Skewmorphism Concept Skeuomorphism A skeuomorph is a physical ornament or design on an object copied from a form of the object when made from another material or by other techniques. Examples include pottery embellished with imitation rivets reminiscent of similar pots made of metal,[1] or a software calendar application which displays the days organised on animated month pages in imitation of a paper desk calendar. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Bug Programming Bugs A software bug is an error, flaw, mistake, failure, or fault in a computer program or system that produces an incorrect or unexpected result, or causes it to behave in unintended ways. Most bugs arise from mistakes and errors made by people in either a program's source code or its design, and a few are caused by compilers producing incorrect code. A program that contains a large number of bugs, and/or bugs that seriously interfere with its functionality, is said to be buggy. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Descender anatomy Typography Descender A stroke which drops below the baseline is a descender. Letters with descenders are g j p q y. Principles of Typography Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Drop Shadow stylize effects Illustrator Drop Shadow A stylize effect available in Adobe Illustrator. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Feather stylize effects Illustrator Feather A stylize effect available in Adobe Illustrator. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Inner Glow stylize effects Illustrator Inner Glow A stylize effect available in Adobe Illustrator. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Outer Glow stylize effects Illustrator Outer Glow A stylize effect available in Adobe Illustrator. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Round Corners stylize effects Illustrator Round Corners A stylize effect available in Adobe Illustrator. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Scribble stylize effects Illustrator Scribble A stylize effect available in Adobe Illustrator. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Solarize stylize filters Photoshop Solarize A stylize filter available in Adobe Photoshop. Blends a negative and a positive image—similar to exposing a photographic print briefly to light during development. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Tiles stylize filters Photoshop Tiles A stylize filter available in Adobe Photoshop. Breaks up an image into a series of tiles, creating an offset between the selection and its original position. You can choose one of the following to fill the area between the tiles: the background color, the foreground color, a reverse version of the image, or an unaltered version of the image, which puts the tiled version on top of the original and reveals part of the original image underneath the tiled edges. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Trace Contour stylize filters Photoshop Trace Contour A stylize filter available in Adobe Photoshop. Finds the transitions of major brightness areas and thinly outlines them for each color channel, for an effect similar to the lines in a contour map. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Extrude stylize filters Photoshop Extrude A stylize filter available in Adobe Photoshop. Gives a 3D texture to a selection or layer. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Find Edges stylize filters Photoshop Find Edges A stylize filter available in Adobe Photoshop. Identifies the areas of the image with significant transitions and emphasizes the edges. Like the Trace Counter filter, Find Edges outlines the edges of an image with dark lines against a white background and is useful for creating a border around an image. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Glowing Edges stylize filters effects Photoshop Glowing Edges A stylize filter available in Adobe Photoshop. Identifies the edges of color and adds a neon-like glow to them. This filter can be applied cumulatively. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Emboss stylize filters Photoshop Emboss A stylize filter available in Adobe Photoshop. Makes a selection appear raised or stamped by converting its fill color to gray and tracing the edges with the original fill color. Options include an embossing angle (from –360° to recess the surface, to +360° to raise the surface), height, and a percentage (1% to 500%) for the amount of color within the selection. To retain color and detail when embossing, use the Fade command after applying the Emboss filter. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Wind stylize filters Photoshop Wind A stylize filter available in Adobe Photoshop. Places tiny horizontal lines in the image to create a windblown effect. Methods include Wind; Blast, for a more dramatic wind effect; and Stagger, which offsets the lines in the image. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Diffuse stylize filters Photoshop Diffuse A stylize filter available in Adobe Photoshop. Shuffles pixels in a selection to soften focus according to the selected option: Normal moves pixels randomly (ignoring color values), Darken Only replaces light pixels with darker ones, and Lighten Only replaces dark pixels with lighter ones. Anisotropic shuffles pixels in the direction of the least change in color. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Subscript Typography Subscript A subscript is a number, figure, symbol, or indicator that appears smaller than the normal line of type and is usually set slightly below the baseline. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Superscript Typography Superscript A superscript is a number, figure, symbol, or indicator that appears smaller than the normal line of type and is set slightly above it. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Swash anatomy Typography Swash A swash is a typographical flourish, such as an exaggerated serif, terminal, tail, entry stroke, etc. on a glyph. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Symbol Branding Symbol A symbol is something that represents an idea, a process, or a physical entity. The purpose of a symbol is to communicate meaning. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Tablet ipad dynabook galaxy slate nexus surface Computing Tablet A tablet computer, or simply tablet, is a one-piece mobile computer, primarily operated by touchscreen (the user's finger essentially functions as the mouse and cursor, removing the need for the physical (i.e., mouse and keyboard) hardware components necessary for a desktop or laptop computer; and, an onscreen, hideable virtual keyboard is integrated into the display). Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Tagline tag line Branding Tagline A tagline is a variant of a branding slogan typically used in marketing materials and advertising. The idea behind the concept is to create a memorable phrase that will sum up the tone and premise of a brand or product, or to reinforce the audience's memory of a product. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Template General Template A template is a pre-developed page layout in electronic or paper media used to make new pages with a similar design, pattern, or style. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Gamut Colour prepress fundamental Print Gamut A term referring to the range of available color on a display or printer. A particular color is either in or out of the gamut of the device. If outside, it cannot be accurately shown on that display or printed on that output device. (Each device has its own gamut capabilities.) Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Grain texture filters effects Photoshop Grain A texture filter available in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Adds texture to an image by simulating different kinds of grain—Regular, Soft, Sprinkles, Clumped, Contrasty, Enlarged, Stippled, Horizontal, Vertical, and Speckle, available from the Grain Type menu. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Texturizer texture filters effects Photoshop Texturizer A texture filter available in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Applies a texture you select or create to an image. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Patchwork texture filters effects Photoshop Patchwork A texture filter available in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Breaks up an image into squares filled with the predominant color in that area of the image. The filter randomly reduces or increases the tile depth to replicate the highlights and shadows. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Craquelure texture filters effects Photoshop Craquelure A texture filter available in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Paints an image onto a high-relief plaster surface, producing a fine network of cracks that follow the contours of the image. Use this filter to create an embossing effect with images that contain a broad range of color or grayscale values. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Mosaic Tiles texture filters effects Photoshop Mosaic Tiles A texture filter available in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Renders the image so that it appears to be made up of small chips or tiles and adds grout between the tiles. (In contrast, the Pixelate > Mosaic filter breaks up an image into blocks of different-colored pixels.) Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Stained Glass texture filters effects Photoshop Stained Glass A texture filter available in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Repaints an image as single-colored adjacent cells outlined in the foreground color. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Trademark Branding Trademark A trademark, trade mark, or trade-mark is a recognizable sign, design or expression which identifies products or services of a particular source from those of others. The trademark owner can be an individual, business organization, or any legal entity. A trademark may be located on a package, a label, a voucher or on the product itself. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Tail anatomy Typography Tail A trailing outstroke, as in j k y J K Q R is called a tail. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Tripod Photography Tripod A tripod is a portable three-legged frame, used as a platform for supporting the weight and maintaining the stability of some other object. A tripod provides stability against downward forces and horizontal forces and movements about horizontal axes. The positioning of the three feet away from the vertical centre allows the tripod better leverage for resisting lateral forces. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Type Foundry Typography Type Foundry A type foundry is a company that designs or distributes typefaces. Originally, type foundries manufactured and sold metal and wood typefaces and matrices for line-casting machines like the Linotype and Monotype machines designed to be printed on letterpress printers. Today's digital type foundries accumulate and distribute typefaces (typically as digitized fonts) created by type designers, who may either be freelancers operating their own independent foundry, or employed by another foundry. Type foundries may also provide custom type design services. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Typo Typography Typo A typographical error (often shortened to typo) is a mistake made in the typing process (such as spelling) of printed material. Historically, this referred to mistakes in manual type-setting (typography). The term includes errors due to mechanical failure or slips of the hand or finger, but excludes errors of ignorance, such as spelling errors. Before the arrival of printing, the "copyist's mistake" or "scribal error" was the equivalent for manuscripts. Most typos involve simple duplication, omission, transposition, or substitution of a small number of characters. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

URI acronyms Web URI a uniform resource identifier (URI) is a string of characters used to identify a name or a resource. Such identification enables interaction with representations of the resource over a network (typically the World Wide Web) using specific protocols. Schemes specifying a concrete syntax and associated protocols define each URI. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

URL acronyms Web URL A uniform resource locator (URL) (originally called universal resource locator) is a specific character string that constitutes a reference to an Internet resource. A URL is technically a type of uniform resource identifier (URI), but in many technical documents and verbal discussions, URL is often used as a synonym for URI. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Tint Color Theory Tint A variation of color produced by adding white to it and characterized by low saturation with relatively high lightness. Tutorial Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

NTSC Colors colours video filters effects Photoshop NTSC Colors A video filter available in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Restricts the gamut of colors to those acceptable for television reproduction, to prevent oversaturated colors from bleeding across television scan lines. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

De-Interlace video filters effects Photoshop De-Interlace A video filter available in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Smooths moving images captured on video by removing either the odd or even interlaced lines in a video image. You can choose to replace the discarded lines by duplication or interpolation. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Arc Lower warp effects Illustrator Arc Lower A warp effect available in Adobe Illustrator. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Arc Upper warp effects Illustrator Arc Upper A warp effect available in Adobe Illustrator. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Arc warp effects Illustrator Arc A warp effect available in Adobe Illustrator. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Arch warp effects Illustrator Arch A warp effect available in Adobe Illustrator. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Bulge warp effects Illustrator Bulge A warp effect available in Adobe Illustrator. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Fish warp effects Illustrator Fish A warp effect available in Adobe Illustrator. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Fisheye warp effects Illustrator Fisheye A warp effect available in Adobe Illustrator. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Flag warp effects Illustrator Flag A warp effect available in Adobe Illustrator. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Inflate warp effects Illustrator Inflate A warp effect available in Adobe Illustrator. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Rise warp effects Illustrator Rise A warp effect available in Adobe Illustrator. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Shell Lower warp effects Illustrator Shell Lower A warp effect available in Adobe Illustrator. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Shell Upper warp effects Illustrator Shell Upper A warp effect available in Adobe Illustrator. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Squeeze warp effects Illustrator Squeeze A warp effect available in Adobe Illustrator. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Twist warp effects Illustrator Twist A warp effect available in Adobe Illustrator. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Wave warp effects Illustrator Wave A warp effect available in Adobe Illustrator. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Web on-press Print Web A web also refers to any roll of substrate—be it paper, paperboard, or a plastic film—used in web-fed gravure and flexography. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Browser user agent fundamental Web Browser A web browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web. An information resource is identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) and may be a web page, image, video or other piece of content. Hyperlinks present in resources enable users easily to navigate their browsers to related resources. A web browser can also be defined as an application software or program designed to enable users to access, retrieve and view documents and other resources on the Internet. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Cache cash fundamental Web Cache A web cache is a mechanism for the temporary storage (caching) of web documents, such as HTML pages and images, to reduce bandwidth usage, server load, and perceived lag. A web cache stores copies of documents passing through it; subsequent requests may be satisfied from the cache if certain conditions are met. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Wireframe Web Wireframe A website wireframe, also known as a page schematic or screen blueprint, is a visual guide that represents the skeletal framework of a website. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

White Point General White Point A white point (often referred to as reference white or target white in technical documents) is a set of tristimulus values or chromaticity coordinates that serve to define the color "white" in image capture, encoding, or reproduction. Depending on the application, different definitions of white are needed to give acceptable results. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

WAN acronyms LAN Computing WAN A Wide Area Network (WAN) is a network that covers a broad area (i.e., any telecommunications network that links across metropolitan, regional, or national boundaries) using private or public network transports. Business and government entities utilize WANs to relay data among employees, clients, buyers, and suppliers from various geographical locations. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Zettabyte zb Computing Zettabyte A zettabyte (symbol ZB, derived from the SI prefix zetta-) is a quantity of information or information storage capacity equal to 1021 bytes or 1,000 exabytes (or one sextillion (one long scale trilliard) bytes). Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Zoom Lens Photography Zoom Lens A zoom lens is a mechanical assembly of lens elements for which the focal length (and thus angle of view) can be varied, as opposed to a fixed focal length (FFL) lens (see prime lens). Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Accented Analogic Color Theory Accented Analogic Accented analogic color schemes are combinations of analogous and complementary color schemes. In addition to colors that are adjacent to each other, it uses a complementary accent at its opposite. Tutorial Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Hard Mix Blending Mode Hard Mix Adds the red, green and blue channel values of the blend color to the RGB values of the base color. If the resulting sum for a channel is 255 or greater, it receives a value of 255; if less than 255, a value of 0. Therefore, all blended pixels have red, green, and blue channel values of either 0 or 255. This changes all pixels to primary additive colors (red, green, or blue), white, or black. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Control Handle General Control Handle Adjustment handles are the small boxes appearing on the corners and edges of a "selected control" that let you change the size and shape of the control. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

After Effects adobe application creative suite Application After Effects Adobe After Effects is a digital motion graphics and compositing software published by Adobe Systems, used in the post-production process of filmmaking and television production. Tutorials Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Creative Suite cs acronyms Adobe Creative Suite Adobe Creative Suite (CS) is a collection of graphic design, video editing, and web development applications made or acquired by Adobe Systems. The collection consists of Adobe's applications (e.g., Photoshop, Acrobat, InDesign), that are based on various technologies (e.g., PostScript, PDF, Flash). Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Dreamweaver adobe application creative suite Application Dreamweaver Adobe Dreamweaver (formerly Macromedia Dreamweaver) is a proprietary web development application developed by Adobe Systems. Dreamweaver was originally developed by Macromedia, until Macromedia was acquired by Adobe Systems in 2005. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

PSD .psd acronyms format File Extension PSD Adobe Photoshop files have default file extension as .PSD, which stands for "Photoshop Document." A PSD file stores an image with support for most imaging options available in Photoshop. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Photoshop adobe application creative suite Application Photoshop Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editing program developed and published by Adobe Systems. Adobe's 2003 "Creative Suite" rebranding led to Adobe Photoshop 8's renaming to Adobe Photoshop CS. Tutorials Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

AI .ai acronyms format File Extension AI AI is a proprietary file format developed by Adobe Systems for representing single-page vector-based drawings in either the EPS or PDF formats. The .ai filename extension is used by Adobe Illustrator. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Ajax Programming Ajax Ajax (an acronym for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is a group of interrelated web development techniques used on the client-side to create asynchronous web applications. With Ajax, web applications can send data to, and retrieve data from, a server asynchronously (in the background) without interfering with the display and behavior of the existing page. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Anchor Point fundamental General Anchor Point All line segments have anchor points at each end which define their position and curve attributes. The name for the resulting curves are called Bezier curves. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Astigmatism Photography Astigmatism An aberration in photography. Departures from a flat image surface are associated with astigmatism and field curvature, and lead to a spatial mismatch between the image and the sensor. Optical Aberrations Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Curvature of Field Photography Curvature of Field An aberration in photography. Petzval field curvature, named for Joseph Petzval, describes the optical aberration in which a flat object normal to the optical axis (or a non-flat object past the hyperfocal distance) cannot be brought into focus on a flat image plane. Optical Aberrations Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Accessory Shoe Hot Shoe Photography Accessory Shoe An accessory shoe, or more commonly hot shoe, is a mounting point on the top of a camera to attach a flash unit or other accessories. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Dewetting on-press Print Dewetting An adverse appearance of ink on material that is usually solved by coating. (See also "Coating") Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Agate typography Unit Agate An agate is a unit of typographical measure. It is 5.5 typographical points, or about 1/14 of an inch. It can refer to either the height of a line of type, or to a font that is 5.5 points. It is considered the smallest point size that can be printed on newsprint and remain legible. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Anchor Programming Anchor An anchor element is called an anchor because web designers can use it to anchor a URL to some text on a web page. When users view the web page in a browser, they can click the text to activate the link and visit the page whose URL is in the link. Uses the tag. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Coated Lens Photography Coated Lens An antireflective or anti-reflection (AR) coating is a type of optical coating applied to the surface of lenses and other optical devices to reduce reflection. This improves the efficiency of the system since less light is lost. In complex systems such as a telescope, the reduction in reflections also improves the contrast of the image by elimination of stray light. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Shoulder anatomy Typography Shoulder An arching stroke is called a shoulder or sometimes just an arch, as in h n m. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Neon Glow artistic filters effects Photoshop Neon Glow An artistic filter available in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Adds various types of glows to the objects in an image. This filter is useful for colorizing an image while softening its look. To select a glow color, click the glow box, and select a color from the Color Picker. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Film Grain artistic filters effects Photoshop Film Grain An artistic filter available in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Applies an even pattern to the shadow tones and midtones. A smoother, more saturated pattern is added to the lighter areas. This filter is useful for eliminating banding in blends and visually unifying elements from various sources. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Rough Pastels artistic filters effects Photoshop Rough Pastels An artistic filter available in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Applies strokes of pastel chalk on a textured background. In areas of bright color, the chalk appears thick with little texture; in darker areas, the chalk appears scraped off to reveal the texture. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Plastic Wrap artistic filters effects Photoshop Plastic Wrap An artistic filter available in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Coats the image in shiny plastic, accentuating the surface detail. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Sponge artistic filters effects Photoshop Sponge An artistic filter available in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Creates images with highly textured areas of contrasting color, simulating the effect of sponge painting. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Colored Pencil coloured artistic filters effects Photoshop Colored Pencil An artistic filter available in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Draws an image using colored pencils on a solid background. Edges are retained and given a rough crosshatch appearance; the solid background color shows through the smoother areas. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Paint Daubs artistic filters effects Photoshop Paint Daubs An artistic filter available in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Lets you choose from various brush sizes (from 1 to 50) and types for a painterly effect. Brush types include Simple, Light Rough, Dark Rough, Wide Sharp, Wide Blurry, and Sparkle. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Cutout artistic filters effects Photoshop Cutout An artistic filter available in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Makes an image appear as though it were constructed from roughly cut pieces of colored paper. High-contrast images appear as if in silhouette, and colored images are built up from several layers of colored paper. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Fresco artistic filters effects Photoshop Fresco An artistic filter available in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Paints an image in a coarse style using short, rounded, and hastily applied daubs. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Dry Brush artistic filters effects Photoshop Dry Brush An artistic filter available in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Paints the edges of the image using a dry brush technique (between oil and watercolor). The filter simplifies an image by reducing its range of colors to areas of common color. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Watercolor artistic filters effects Photoshop Watercolor An artistic filter available in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Paints the image in a watercolor style using a medium brush loaded with water and color, simplifying details. Where significant tonal changes occur at the edges, the filter saturates the color. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Underpainting artistic filters effects Photoshop Underpainting An artistic filter available in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Paints the image on a textured background, and then paints the final image over it. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Palette Knife artistic filters effects Photoshop Palette Knife An artistic filter available in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Reduces detail in an image to give the effect of a thinly painted canvas that reveals the texture underneath. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Poster Edges artistic filters effects Photoshop Poster Edges An artistic filter available in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Reduces the number of colors in an image (posterizes it) according to the posterization option you set, and finds the edges of the image and draws black lines on them. Large broad areas have simple shading, and fine dark detail is distributed throughout the image. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Smudge Stick artistic filters effects Photoshop Smudge An artistic filter available in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Softens an image using short diagonal strokes to smudge or smear the darker areas. Lighter areas become brighter and lose detail. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Autofocus auto focus af Photography Autofocus An autofocus (or AF) optical system uses a sensor, a control system and a motor to focus fully automatic or on a manually selected point or area. An electronic rangefinder has a display instead of the motor; the adjustment of the optical system has to be done manually until indication. The methods are named by the used sensor: Active, passive and hybrid. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Em typography Unit Em An em is a unit of measurement in the field of typography, equal to the currently specified point size. The name of em is related to M. Originally the unit was derived from the width of the capital "M" in the given typeface. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

En typography Unit En An en is a typographic unit, half of the width of an em. By definition, it is equivalent to half of the height of the font (e.g. in 16 point type it is 8 points). As its name suggests, it is also traditionally the width of a lowercase letter "n". Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Continuous Tone prepress on-press Print Continuous Tone An image that has an assortment of tone values ranging from dark to light that does not contain halftone dots. A photograph is a continuous-tone image, for example, while a pen-and-ink drawing (also known as line art) formed of pure blacks and whites, is not. Also called a con-tone. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Inch length Unit Inch An inch (plural: inches; abbreviation or symbol: in or ″ – a double prime) is a unit of length in a number of systems of measurement, including the imperial and United States customary systems. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Inkjet ink jet digital on-press Print Inkjet An inkjet printer is a type of computer printer that reproduces a digital image by propelling variably-sized droplets of liquid material (ink) onto a page. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

IDE acronyms Programming IDE An integrated development environment (IDE) is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development. An IDE normally consists of a source code editor, build automation tools and a debugger. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

ISP acronyms Web ISP An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization that provides access to the Internet. Access ISPs directly connect clients to the Internet using copper wires, wireless or fiber-optic connections. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Intranet Web Intranet An intranet is a computer network that uses Internet Protocol technology to share information, operational systems, or computing services within an organization. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Ordered List Programming Ordered List An ordered (enumerated) list. The type attribute can be used to specify the kind of ordering, but stylesheets give more control. The default is Arabic numbering. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Custom other filters Photoshop Custom An other filter available in Adobe Photoshop. Lets you design your own filter effect. With the Custom filter, you can change the brightness values of each pixel in the image according to a predefined mathematical operation known as convolution. Each pixel is reassigned a value based on the values of surrounding pixels. This operation is similar to the Add and Subtract calculations for channels. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Offset other filters Photoshop Offset An other filter available in Adobe Photoshop. Moves a selection a specified horizontal or vertical amount, leaving an empty space at the selection’s original location. You can fill the empty area with the current background color, with another part of the image, or with your choice of fill if the selection is near the edge of an image. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

High Pass other filters Photoshop High Pass An other filter available in Adobe Photoshop. Retains edge details in the specified radius where sharp color transitions occur and suppresses the rest of the image. (A radius of 0.1 pixel keeps only edge pixels.) The filter removes low-frequency detail from an image and has an effect opposite to that of the Gaussian Blur filter.

It is helpful to apply the High Pass filter to a continuous-tone image before using the Threshold command or converting the image to Bitmap mode. The filter is useful for extracting line art and large black-and-white areas from scanned images. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Maximum other filters Photoshop Maximum An other filter available in Adobe Photoshop. Useful for modifying masks. The Maximum filter has the effect of applying a choke—spreading out white areas and choking in black areas. Like the Median filter, the Maximum filter looks at individual pixels in a selection. Within a specified radius, the Maximum filter replaces the current pixel’s brightness value with the highest or lowest brightness value of the surrounding pixels. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Minimum other filters Photoshop Minimum An other filter available in Adobe Photoshop. Useful for modifying masks. The Minimum filter has the effect of applying a spread—spreading out black areas and shrinking white areas. Like the Median filter, the Minimum filter looks at individual pixels in a selection. Within a specified radius, the Minimum filter replaces the current pixel’s brightness value with the highest or lowest brightness value of the surrounding pixels. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Fibers render filters fibres Photoshop Fibers An render filter available in Adobe Photoshop. Creates the look of woven fibers using the foreground and background colors. You use the Variance slider to control how the colors vary (a low value produces long streaks of color, and a high value results in very short fibers with more varied distribution of color). The Strength slider controls how each fiber looks. A low setting produces a loose weave, and a high setting produces short, stringy fibers. Click the Randomize button to change how the pattern looks; you can click the button a number of times until you find a pattern you like. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Clouds render filters Photoshop Clouds An render filter available in Adobe Photoshop. Generates a soft cloud pattern using random values that vary between the foreground and the background colors. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Lighting Effects render filters Photoshop Lighting Effects An render filter available in Adobe Photoshop. Lets you produce myriad lighting effects on RGB images by varying 17 light styles, three light types, and four sets of light properties. You can also use textures from grayscale files (called bump maps) to produce 3D-like effects and save your own styles for use in other images. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Lens Flare render filters Photoshop Lens Flare An render filter available in Adobe Photoshop. Simulates the refraction caused by shining a bright light into a camera lens. Specify a location for the center of the flare by clicking anywhere inside the image thumbnail or by dragging its cross hair. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Difference Clouds render filters Photoshop Difference Clouds An render filter available in Adobe Photoshop. Uses randomly generated values that vary between the foreground and background color to produce a cloud pattern. The filter blends the cloud data with the existing pixels in the same way the Difference mode blends colors. The first time you choose this filter, portions of the image are inverted in a cloud pattern. Applying the filter several times creates rib and vein patterns that resemble a marble texture. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Unordered List Programming Unordered List An unordered (bulleted) list. Stylesheets can be used to specify the list marker. The default marker is a disc. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Analogous Colors Colours Color Theory Analogous Colors Analogous colors are groups of colors that are adjacent to each other on the color wheel, with one being the dominant color, which tends to be a primary or secondary color, and two on either side complimenting, which tend to be tertiary. Kuler by Adobe Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Android google operating system mobile tablet Computing Android Android is a Linux-based operating system designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers. Initially developed by Android, Inc., which Google backed financially and later purchased in 2005. Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Anti-Aliasing sharp crisp strong smooth Typography Anti-Aliasing Anti-aliasing refers to a technique to combat the problems of aliasing in a sampled signal such as a digital image. Commonly used in raster typography. Tutorial Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Antiqua (Old Style) roman Typography Antiqua (Old Style) Antiqua is a style of text used to mimic the hand. Antiqua, Blackletter, Fraktur and Textura are all examples of Handwriting text or Old Style text. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Overship on-press Print Overship Any finished labels packaged and sent to the customer beyond the order amount. Denoted at bottom of the Job Ticket. Overship is billable. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Overrun on-press Print Overrun Any printed labels beyond the customer order. Includes Aztech setup, Jetrion setup, Overship, etc. Overrun is not billable (unless used for Overship). (See "Overship") Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Aperture Priority Photography Aperture Priority Aperture priority, often abbreviated A or Av (for Aperture value) on a camera mode dial, is a setting on some cameras that allows the user to choose a specific aperture value while the camera selects a shutter speed to match. Exposure Tutorial Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Open-Counter anatomy Typography Open-Counter Areas of negative space (white space) formed by straight or rounded strokes are called counters. Open counters in a c e f h m n r s t u. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Balance Concept Balance Arranging parts to achieve a state of equilibrium between forces of influences. Examples: Symmetrical, Asymmetrical, Radial. Find the original at gearsidecreative.com

Artboard Illustrator Artboard Artboards represent the regions that can contain printable artwork. You resize and set the orientation for your artwork by choosing settings in the Artboard Options dialog box. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Artificial Light Photography Artificial Light Artificial lighting is the use of lamps and light fixtures to achieve a practical or aesthetic effect (rather than relying on natural sunlight). Lighting Tutorials Terms compiled at gearsidecreative.com

Save For Web adobe photoshop illustrator General Save For Web As of version 5 and greater, Photoshop includes a very handy "Save for Web" command. This feature allows you to produce a copy of your image that is optimised for Web use. This means that the image file will be as small as possible, and that the image will use only Web-safe colours (if desired). Save for Web can produce GIF, JPEG, or PNG format images. Definitions compiled by Chris Blakley

Auto Exposure Bracketing autobracketing Photography Auto Exposure Bracketing Autobracketing is a feature of some more advanced cameras, whether film or digital cameras, particularly single-lens reflex cameras, where the camera will take several successive shots (often three) with slightly different settings. Two modes are used: The images are automatically combined, for example Automatic Exposure Bracketing into one High dynamic range image, or the best-looking separately stored pictures can be picked later from the batch. Definitions compiled by Gearside Creative.

Backlighting Photography Backlighting Backlighting r