The basics

400 ADVANCED PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 5.0 FOR DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHERS
APPENDICES
sees when logging onto a website. Often the name
and spelling of this page file is critical if it is to work
on the web server. Consult your ISP staff for the
precise name to be used with your site.
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Gamma The contrast of the mid tone areas of a
digital image.
Gamut The range of colors or hues that can be
printed or displayed by particular devices.
Gaussian Blur When applied to an image or a
selection, this filter softens or blurs the image.
GIF or Graphic Interchange Format This is
an indexed color mode format that contains a
maximum of 256 colors that can be mapped to
any palette of actual colors. It is extensively used
for web graphics, buttons and logos, and small
animated images.
Grayscale A monochrome image containing
just monochrome tones ranging from white
through a range of grays to black.
Group You can group photos with similar
content into a single Image Stack in the Photo
Browser workspace.
Grow The Select > Grow feature increases the
size of an existing selection by incorporating
pixels of similar color and tone to those already
in the selection.
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Histogram A graph that represents the tonal
distribution of pixels within a digital image.
History Adobe’s form of Multiple Undo.
Hot linked This term refers to a piece of text,
graphic or picture that has been designed to act
as a button on a web page. When the viewer
clicks the hot linked item they are usually
transported to another page or part of a website.
HTML The Hyper Text Mark Up language is
the code used to create web pages. The characteristics
of pages are stored in this language
and when a page file is downloaded to your
computer the machine lays out and displays the
text, image and graphics according to what is
stated in the HTML file.
Hue Refers to the color of the light and is
separate from how light or dark it is.
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Image layers Images in Elements can be made
up of many layers. Each layer will contain part
of the picture. When viewed together all layers
appear to make up a single continuous image.
Special effects and filters can be applied to layers
individually.
Indexed color The Indexed Color mode can support
up to 256 different colors and is the default
Color mode for the GIF file format.
Interpolation This is the process used by image
editing programs to increase the resolution of
a digital image. Using fuzzy logic the program
makes up the extra pixels that are placed
between the original ones that were generated
at the time of scanning.
ISP The Internet Service Provider is the
company that hosts or stores web pages. If you
access the web via a dial-up account then you
will usually have a portion of free space allocated
for use for your own site; others can obtain
free (with a small banner advert attached) space
from companies like www.tripod.com.