Learning about Digital Imagery

Digital images come in a variety of sizes, file types, and qualities. For this lesson, you will be learning how to identify and manipulate digital images correctly so that you have high quality images that you will be able to keep forever.

Topics

• CMYK vs RGB
• 300 dpi vs 72 dpi (Resolution)
• Vector vs raster images
• Pixels
• Resampling images
• Stock image sites
• Distortion (holding shift)
• Stealing imagery from Google or the Internet
• Scanning with resolution
• Quality of camera (amount of Mega pixels - millions of pixels)
• iPad
• Nikon D3100 (what we have in school)
• Nikon D800
• iPhone 5
• File types
• jpeg (fine, normal)
• RAW
• TIFF
• png
• File sizes
• Byte
• Kilobyte
• Megabyte
• Gigabyte
• Terabyte

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