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A 2-dimensional or 3-dimensional representation of an object is called an image How to create an image? Plan your approach Organize your tools Use Multiple Monitors Making Still Images Still Image can be small, large or even full screen. It can be colored or black & white. It is generated by the computer in 2 ways: a) as bit maps (paint graphics) used for photo-realistic images b) as vector drawn (plain drawn graphics) used for lines, boxes, circles and other graphic shapes Image File Formats 1.JPG or JPEG- Joint Photographic Experts Group Common file extensions associated with this format are .jpg, .jpeg. It offers a reasonable compromise between picture size and picture quality . Images can lose their quality when repeatedly edited and saved in this format. 2. GIF(Graphics Interchange Format ) The images saved in this format lose a lot of color information by being reduced to 256 colors (8 bits per pixel). ideal for storing graphics with a limited number of colors such as clip art, simple drawings, logos, text, diagrams, icons, small images or pictures in greyscale. It supports animation and transparency. it is still largely used on the world wide web to create special effects and give life to web pages. 3.PNG (Portable Network Graphics) better alternative to GIF. supports animation and transparency, too, but not limited to 256 colors. It has the advantage of truecolor (16 million colors). It can be used for editing photographs, since it doesn't lose quality through repeated savings like JPEG. It is still preferred for transferring and distributing photos because of the reasonable file size. A disadvantage of PNG is that some of the Internet browsers do not support this format yet. 4.BMP( Windows Bitmap) It is the format specific to the Windows operating system. used in various Window-based applications. but its great disadvantage is the large file size, since it doesn't use any compression. The 24 bits-per-pixel BMP files are great quality images but they take a lot of space. 5.TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) It is recognized as.tif or .tiff. It is recommended especially for text and black and white images. It is not widely supported by web browsers,

It remains the standard format for printing, scanned documents and Optical Character Recognition. Capturing & Editing Images In Macintosh & Windows Text & images are stored in Clipboard. For Editing we can use Image Editing Programs. Morphing can also be used which allows to blend two images. Other Steps Scanning Images Drawing and Rendering Color RGB, Perceived Color Monitors & Color Computer Color Models- RGB, HSB, HSL, CMYK,CIE, YIQ, YUV, YCC. Palettes (In Windows)- mathematical tables that define color of a pixel. In Macintosh it is called CLUTs. The most common Palettes are 1,4,8,16 & 24 bits. 1 bit 2 colors, 4 bit 16 colors, 8 bit 256 colors, 16 bit 1024 colors and 24 bits uses 16 million colors. Dithering