Desktop CHS 110 Terms
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Advanced Desktop Terms . Vocab desktop students at CHS
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Copyright laws | laws designed to protect intellectual property rights and provide rewards for inventiveness |
| Desktop Publishing | using a computer to produce high quality printed documents that combine text and graphics |
| Fair use | SEction of the U.S. copyright law that allows the use of copyrighted works in reporting news, conducting research and teaching |
| Graphics software | software designed to create, edit and manipulate graphics |
| Royalty-free | prepared material that can be used legally without paying a fee to the creator |
| Accordion fold | zig-zag fold with 6 panels |
| Alignment | The placement of text or graphics on a line |
| Balance | feeling of equality of weight, attention or attraction |
| Binding | The joining of pages with either wire, glue or other means |
| Bond | Standard type of paper used in copiers and printers |
| Focal point | visuaully dominant elements in a presentation |
| Gatefold | folding the sides in toward the middle of a page |
| Half fold | dividing the page in half, often called a booklet fold |
| layout | the arrangement of all key parts of a publication without including specific content |
| legal | a standard american paper size that is 8.5 x 14 inches |
| Letter | a standard American paper size that is 8.5 x 11 inches |
| Line | as a design element, lines can be used to divide or unite elements on a page |
| Mass | the physical or visual size of a publication or an object in the publication |
| Mock layout | rough draft of the finished publication that shows the major elements of the publication |
| Newsprint | a type of paper that is low quality and inexpensive |
| optical center | the opitcal center is slightly to the right of and above the actual center of a page |
| paper weight | the actual weight in pounds of 500 full sheets of paper regardless of the basic size or grade of paper |
| Perfect binding | to bind pages together with glue to create a book |
| ream | a package of 500 sheets of paper |
| Repetition | the use of the same visual effects a number of times in the same project |
| saddle stitch | a type of binding that staples down the middle of folded pages |
| shape | a design element that includes geometric, natural, or abstract shapes |
| Space | space is the distance or area between or around things |
| Spiral binding | a type of binding that secures pages by using metal combs or plastic combs that fit into holes |
| Symmetrical balance | type of balance that occurs when the weight of a composition is evenly distrubuted around a central vertical or horiziontal axis |
| tabloid | a standard american paper size that is 11 x 17 inches |
| target audience | a specific group of people for which you design your documents, can be categorized by age, gender income |
| Texture | the surface qualitry of a shape, rough smooth soft hard glossy, texture can be phiyscal or visual |
| Thumbnail sketch | a small sketch that shows only the large elements of the page |
| Time frame | the amount of time given toa complete a document orproject |
| tri-fold | two parallel folds resulting in three panels on each side of the paper, also known as a brochure fold |
| Unity | the combination of all elements working together to achieve a sense of harmony in your design; |
| Value | the measure of lightness and darkness in color |
| White space | areas on a page with no text or graphics |
| Z-pattern | the visual path that draws the eye from top left to top right down to bottom left adn then to bottom right |
| 3-D | an effect that gives the illusion of depth |
| Ascender | the part of a lowercase character that extends above the x- height |
| Baseline | an imaginary horizontal line along which the base of a letter sets |
| bold | font style that makes characters appear darker than the surrounding text |
| Cap height | the height of capital letters from the baseline to the top of caps, most accurately measured on a character wtih a flat bottom |
| Character | any written or printer letter, number or symbol |
| Character width | the horizontal distance of a character |
| Contoured text | text that follows an outline in some type of curved or irregular pattern |
| Decorative font | typefaces designed to attract attention, sued in limited situatiosn, mostly in large sizes for headlines or titles. |
| Descender | the part of a character that descends below the baseline |
| Dingbat | a decorative element available in font format |
| Drop cap | the first letter in a story that is enlarged and lwoered so the top of the ltter is even with the first line of text and the base of the letter drops next to the rest of hte paragraph |
| Em dash | a line the weidth of ac pital M in whichever font is being used, is used to indicate a break in thought |
| Em space | a space that is the width of a capital N in the font and point size being used, half the size of a em space |
| Font | family of alphabetic characters, numbers, punctuation marjks and other symbols that share a consitent design, often used synonymously with typeface |
| Font style | the appeareance of type |
| Greeking | nonsense text used as a placeholder for actual text, also known as lorem ispum |
| hanging indent | the first line of a paragraph is flush left, but all reamining lines are indented |
| Indent | a feature that sets a temporary left, right or left and rigiht margin for paragraph text |
| initial cap | an enlarged letter that is uesed a the first character of a paragraph, may be dropped or raised |
| italics | printed in or using characters that slope to the right |
| kerning | the adjustment of space between pairs of letters to improve its appearance or alter its fit |
| Leading | the space between lines of text |
| Lower case | non-capital letters in a typeface |
| Orphan | a very short line of text that appear at the top of a colum or page, with the rest of the paragraph at the btotom of the previous page |
| point | a unit of measurement used to describe the size of text, one point = 1/72 of an inch |
| reverse type | special formatting style that use ligth color text on a dark backgroudn |
| sans serif | typeface without serifs |
| script | formal or informal typefaces designed to imitate handwriting |
| serif | typeface with proncetions extending off the main strokes of a character |
| Shadow | A formatting style that adds depth to text or other objects making them 3d |
| small cap | formatting style that displays uppercase letters in a smaller size than the regular uppercase letters |
| Text wrap | a technique that allows text to flow around a graphic image |
| texture | a special formatting style creates the illusion of actual textures such as wood, metal |
| tracking | adjusting the spacing between words, phrases and extended blocks of text |
| typography | the study of all elements of type as mean of visual communication |
| upper case | capital letters in a typeface |
| widow | a very short line of text that appears at the end of a paragraph or coulmn |
| X-height | the height of lowercase letters, specifically the lowercase x, not including ascenders and descenders |
| bitmap | a category of graphics that represents the digital image as an array of dots called pixels |
| Bitmap | an uncompressed bitmap file format that is very large and is not appropriate for the web |
| brightness | the measure of realtive lightness or darkness of a color |
| contrast | the relationship between the light and dark areas of an image |
| cropping | a tool that enables the user to remove part of an image |
| digital zoom | a function of a digital camera used to make the image seem more close up |
| drawing software | program used to create vector graphics |
| flip | reverse the image |
| GIF | compressed bitmap file format, that supports only 256 colors and is appropriate for the web animation |
| grouping | to select more than one object to create a compositve object |
| hairline | very small space, thin line |
| import | to insert text or objects from another source |
| JPEG | compressed bitmap file format that is preffered for photographs 16 million colors |
| layering | a feature that allows you to place one image on top of another |
| macro zoom | zoom that allows you to take extreme close ups |
| painting software | programs used to create bitmap images |
| Resize | changing the size or shape of an object |
| resolution | the quality of digital detail in an image, depending on the number of dots per inch |
| rotate | function that enables a user to rotate an image a number of degrees |
| rule | a horiuziontal or vertical line used as a divider |
| uploading | the transfers of a fil from a source computer to a desitnation computer |
| vector | an image created by using a series of mathematically defined lines and curves rather than pixels |
| watermark | lightly shaded text or image placed in the background or embedded in some paper stock |
| WMF | microsofts vector file format |
| alley | the space between columns |
| busincess card | small publications containing information such as name, title, business |
| borchure | a booklet or pamphlet that contains descriptive information |
| byline | the credit line for the author of an article |
| clip art | ready made pieces of printed or graphic art |
| column | a vertical section of text |
| continuation line | restates the original headline to simply the process of inding an article that has been continued from a previous page |
| default | settings built into software |
| pagination | design choices are grouped this way when they are made for long documents |
| picas | a measurement developed by printers that divides 1 inch by 6. 6 to an inch. |
| point | a division of pica. Each pica contains 12 of these. |
| spread | If facing pages option is selected, both pages will be displayed. |
| pasteboard | scratch area outside the working page. |
| bleed | the practice of placing an image or color so that it extends to the edge of the page |
| slug | a nonprinting area in which details about the document are stored for other uses |
| zero point | is the point on the vertical and horizontal page whre the ruler is set to zero |
| guides | are nonprinting lines that provide visual points of reference making it easy to align text, images or frames |
| fill | the area inside an object or text |
| stroke | is the border around an object or text |
| frames | a DTP enclosure for text or images that allows you to move the information as a unit |
| bounding box | the area surounding a frame |
| jump line | the statement at the end of text on one page indicating the pages on which the text continues |
| master page | contain recurring items such as page numbers as well as other design elements |
| footer | recurring information that appears at the bottom of th page |
| header | recurring information that appears at the top of the page |
| palette | a bar or area on the screen that provides additional features for tools |
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