ICT

PRESENTATION

TITLE: IMAGE
 IMAGE EXPLANATION

IMAGES ARE A MEDIA TYPE DISPLAYED AS VISUAL,INFORMATION.THEY

CAN BE DRAWINGS,PAINTINGS, OR PHOTOGRAPHS.IMAGES ARE USED
TO CREATE INTEREST AND PROVIDE INFORMATION,PHOTOGRAPHS,AND
OTHER TYPES OF GRAPHICAL DATA THAT ARE DESIGNED SPESIFICALLY
FOR DISPLAY
An image can be represented in
two different ways
A bitmap A vector
 TYPICAL FILE FORMATS  VECTOR IMAGES CAN BE
FOR A BITMAP CAN BE SVG,WMF, ANF EMF
JPEG,GIF,PNG,BMP
 A BITMAP

BITMAP IMAGES TREAT EACH DOT IN AN IMAGE

SPERATELY.THESE DOTS CAN BE DIFFERENT COLOURS WITH EACH
COLOUR BEING REPRENSENTED AS A BINARY NUMBER.BITMAPS
PRODUCE GOOD QUALITY IMAGES WHERE SHADING AND
DETAIL ARE NEEDED.BITMAP IMAGES ARE OFTEN COMPRESSED
TO REDUCE THEIR FILE SIZE TO STORAGE.SOME OF THESE
COMPRESSION FORMATS WILL NOT AFTER THE IMAGE
QUALITY.THIS IS CALLED LOSSLESS COMPRESSION HOWEVER
OTHERS WILL REMOVE SOME PARTS OF THE IMAGE.THIS IS
KNOWN AS LOSSY COMPRESSION.
 A VECTOR
VECTOR IMAGES OR GRAPHICS ARE MADE UP OF OBJECTS SUCH AS
STRAIGHT LINES,CURVES,OR SHAPES.EACH PORTION OF THE IMAGE IS
REPRESENTED MATHEMATICALLY.EACH OBJECT IS DEFINED BY ITS
CHARACTERISTICS SUCH AS POSITIONS,WIDTH OF THE LINES AND
PATTERNS.COMMON VECTOR GRAPHICS INCLUDE SCALABLE VECTOR
GRAPHICS [SVG]WINDOWS METAFILE[WMF] AND ENCHACED
METAFILE[EMF]