Understanding: Adobe Photoshop

1. Digital Imaging Fundamentals Many people mistake fundamentals for basics. They are not the same. Understanding how computers represent your digital image data is essential to your career. Being a tech head will not make you a better desig...

Pixels: Digital Building Blocks When it comes to digital cameras, most consumers (and salespeople) seem obsessed with megapixels. Because "everybody knows" that having more pixels means better images (it doesn't, by the way). In a simila...

Understanding Resolution OK, prepare to be confused (but hopefully not for long). There are a lot of terms used to describe the resolution of images. The problem is that many people (and companies) use the wrong terms, which leads to a lot of unde...

Image Mode Within Photoshop, you need to choose from one of eight image modes when working with a document. The mode you pick will depend upon what you need to do with the image and how you intend to output it. The three most common modes are RGB,...

Bit Depth Besides resolution (the number of pixels) and color mode (the way colors are processed) there is one other variable that affects image quality. Bit depth measures how much color is available for display or printing of each pi...

Time to Move On There's a lot more ground to cover, but we'll explore the topics discussed here and others in greater depth in each chapter. Hopefully you feel a little bit more comfortable with the language used to describe images and color. With...