What Is An Image?

An image is a 2D array of pixels.

An image is an array, or a matrix, of square
pixels (picture elements) arranged in columns
and rows.

Pixel?
A pixel is the smallest visual element on a
video display screen.
PIX (for picture) + EL" (for element).

Pixel's Of Image.

More On Pixels
This example shows an image with a portion
greatly enlarged, in which the individual pixels
are rendered as little squares and can easily
be seen.

How is a pixel stored?

Pixels are stored as Integers.
The integers can be 8-bit, 24-bit or 32-bit
depending on the image type.
Most popular are 24 bit color images where 8
bits each for Red, Green And Blue color values
are used to represent a 24-bit pixel value.
8 bit images are grayscale images where as 32
bit images have an additional transparency
channel.

RGB Color Model

The RGB color model is an additive color
model in which red, green, and blue color is
added together in various ways to reproduce a
broad array of colors.
In computing, the component values are often
stored as integer numbers in the range 0 to
255. These may be represented as either
decimal or hexadecimal numbers.

RGB Color Images

Color images are composed
of three different channels
viz. Red, Green and Blue.
One can also imagine three
overlapped 8-bit images to
compose a final 24-bit color
image.

RGB Color Example

Sample PIXEL value in HEX = 0EDEB5
In programming the hex numbers are
represented as 0x0EDEB5. 0x prefix is for hex
notation.
Then individual color channels:
0E (red) - DE (green)- B5 (blue)
00001110 11011110 10110101
Actual Color Composed Will Be :

A Little Experiment
Using Microsoft Paint try creating new color
compositions. See how individual values of R,
G and B can be used to form different colors.

Grayscale Image
In a (8-bit) grayscale image each picture
element has an assigned intensity that ranges
from 0 to 255.
A grey scale image is different from black and
white image since a grayscale image also
includes shades of grey apart from pure black
and pure white color.
Grayscale images are usually required for
image processing.

Different Image Types

COLOR GRAYSCALE - BLACK & WHITE