Image Editing

TYPES OF PROGRAMS

OFFLINE

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GIMP, PhotoScape, Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, XnView, Picasa

ONLINE

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Pixir, Phixr, PicMonkey, PhotoShop Express Editor, BeFunky, PicMagick, Fotor, FotoFlexer, Pho.to

TYPES OF FILES

BMP

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Bitmap. Format used by windows

GIF

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It is the most used on the web. It has a depth of 8 bits, works with 256 colors and allows animations

JPG o JPEG

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Widely used for digital imaging, it supports 16 million colors in a small space due to its high compression

TIF o TIFF

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Provides high-quality images and is widespread

PNG

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It was created to replace the GIF and is similar to this one, although it has better quality and takes up less space

XCF

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Used in GIMP allows you to save layers, channels, transparencies, etc., to later edit them

PSD

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Used in PhotoShop, it has the same features as XCF

PROPERTIES OF BITMAPS

Dimensions or size

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The size of a bitmap image is defined by the product of two integers corresponding to the number of pixels in the width and height of the image

Resolution

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It is the parameter that tells us how much detail an image can be observed. It is defined as the number of pixels per inch. Logically, the more pixels there are in an inch, the better the image will look

Color depth

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It is the number of bits of information needed to represent the color of a pixel in an image. A bit is a memory position that can have a value of 0 or 1. The greater the color depth in bits, the wider the color palette that the image will have.

RGB

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The color image, as we see it, is composed of three channels: red, green and blue. It is an additive color model, that is, the more red, green and blue it is added, the more the white color will resemble

CMYK

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The colors that form it are cyan, magenta, yellow and black. It is a subtractive model that is used in color printing. The color that represents an object corresponds to the part of the light that falls on that object and that is not absorbed by it. The more color you add, the closer you get to black.

TYPES OF IMAGES

Bitmap images

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They are images formed by pixels

Vector images

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They are digital images formed by independent geometric objects