PAULA LORENZO

DOMÍNGUEZ

TERM TRANSLATION DEFINITION

Alphabet Alfabeto The letters of a language in their customary order.

Angle Ángulo The space within two lines or three or more

surfaces that meet at a common point.

Aperture Abertura An opening that limits the amount of light that can
enter the lens of a camera or telescope.

Blur Borroso To make details less clear

Bold Negrita Typeface style in which characters have a thicker

stroke.

Camera steady Cámara estática A usually hand-held device for taking pictures or
films.

Caps Mayúsculas They are letters that have a larger size and usually
different shape than the lower case, with which
they contrast.
CGM CGM Is a family of free and open international standard
file formats for 2D vector graphics, raster graphics,

(Computer and text

Graphics
Metafile)

Character width Ancho de carácter The font has a width value that's proportional to
the font-size.

Clone Clonar To produce a copy of.

Crop Recortar To trim (a photographic print or negative)

Develop Revelar Photographyto immerse (film) in chemicals so that

an image becomes visible.

Digital Fotografía digital Digital photography uses cameras containing

arrays of electronic photodetectors interfaced to

photograp an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) to produce

images focused by a lens, as opposed to an

hy exposure on photographic film.

Digital zooms Zoom digital Is a method of decreasing the precise angle of view
of a digital photograph or video image.

DSLR Cámara reflex digital Is a digital camera that combines the optics and
the mechanisms of a single-lens reflex camera with
a solid-state image sensor and digitally records the
images from the sensor.

Expand Expandir Increased in area, bulk, volume or enlarged.

Exposure Exposición Process of allowing light into a camera

File format Formato de archivo Is a standard way that information is encoded for
storage in a computer file. It specifies how bits are
used to encode information in a digital storage
medium.

Film Carrete Material that stores images

Flash Flash Bright artificial light thrown briefly upon a subject

during a photographic exposure.

Focus Enfocar To (cause to) come to a focus or into focus.

GIF GIF A raster file format designed for relatively basic

images that appear mainly on the internet.

(Graphics
Interchang
e Format)

Image sensor Sensor de imagen Is a sensor that detects and conveys information
used to form an image. It does so by converting the
variable attenuation of light waves (as they pass
through or reflect off objects) into signals, small
bursts of current that convey the information.
ISO speed Velocidad de ISO Refers to your camera sensor’s sensitivity to light

Italic Cursiva Is a cursive font based on a stylised form of

calligraphic handwriting.
Along with blackletter and roman type, it served as
one of the major typefaces in the history of Western
typography.

JPEG JPEG Is a commonly used method of lossy compression

for digital images, particularly for those images

(Joint produced by digital photography.

Photograph
ic Experts
Group)

LCD
LCD It is a system that uses certain electronic screens to
display visual information.

(Liquid
crystal
display)

Lens Lente Piece of curved glass

Letterpress Impresión tipográfica The process of printing from letters or type in

relief, rather than from intaglio plates or
planographically.

Lettering Caligrafía The act or process of writing or forming letters.

Monospaced Mono Espaciado Is a font whose letters and characters each
occupy the same amount of horizontal space.

Negatives Negativo Photography being an image in which the lightest

areas are shown as the darkest.

Optical zooms Zoom óptico Is accomplished by moving parts within a camera

lens. The glass elements inside of a zoom lens
move back and forth creating different relative
focal lengths.

Ornamental Ornamental Beautiful rather than useful.

Outline Contorno The line by which a figure or object is defined or

bounded contour.

Photo editing Edición de imágenes Encompasses the processes of altering images,

whether they are digital photographs, traditional
photo-chemical photographs, or illustrations.

Photographer Fotógrafo A person who takes photographs, esp. one who

practices photography professionally.
Photography Fotografía The act of creating pictures with a camera

Pixels Píxeles A minute area of illumination on a display screen,

one of many from which an image is composed.

PNG PNG Is a raster-graphics file format that supports

lossless data compression.

(Portable
network
graphics)

Point Punto tipográfico Is the smallest unit of measure. It is used for

measuring font size, leading, and other items on a
printed page.

Point-and-sho Automático Denoting a camera which automatically focuses

and adjusts its exposure settings when the shutter
ot release is pressed.

Proportional Proporcional If two amounts are proportional, they change at

the same rate so that the relationship between
them does not change.

Raster Mapa de bits Represents a two-dimensional picture as a

rectangular matrix or grid of square pixels,
graphics viewable via a computer display, paper, or other
display medium.

Recompose Recomponer To compose again, reconstitute or

rearrange.

Red eye Ojos rojos Is the common appearance of red pupils in color
photographs of the eyes of humans and several
other animals. It occurs when using a
photographic flash that is very close to the camera
lens in ambient low light.
Reflex mirror Cámara reflex This is a diagonal line which acts as a mirror that
redirects the light that comes in from the lens up
towards the viewfinder which basically bends the
light into your eyes so you can see the scene.

Resize Redimensionar To change the dimensions of an image file or its

output.

Retouch Retocar Is a set of manipulations performed on a digital

image to improve it visually or to adjust its
technical qualities.

Roman type Tipografía romana In Latin script typography, roman is one of the
three main kinds of historical type, alongside
blackletter and italic

Sans-serif Sin serifa Is one that does not have extending features called
"serifs" at the end of strokes.

Scaling Escalado Are used to provide the viewer with an idea of the
size of a mark or an impression.

Script Manuscrito Are based upon the varied and often fluid stroke
created by handwriting.

SD card Tarjeta SD (secure A type of memory card typically used in digital

digital) cameras and other portable devices.

Serif Serifa Is a small line or stroke regularly attached to the

end of a larger stroke in a letter or symbol within a
particular font or family of fonts.

Set Poner To put (something or someone) in a particular

place or posture.

Shadow Sombra Usually have letters that are raised above the page
and a silhouette or drop-shadow is behind them.
Sharpen Enfocar Is the level of detail that is achieved in an image,
considering numerous factors such as the lens,
the camera, and the shooting technique that the
photographer used.

Shoot Capturar To take a picture

Shutter speed Velocidad de Is the length of time that the film or digital sensor
obturación inside the camera is exposed to light when taking
a photograph.

Stamp Estampar To put a mark, symbol, the date, etc., on

(something).

Stationery Materiales de oficina They are the ones that constitute the basis of the
daily work that is carried out in the different
companies and organizations.

Strikethrough Tachado Is a typographical presentation of words with a

horizontal line through their center, resulting in
text like this.

Subscript Subíndice A distinguishing symbol (such as a letter or

numeral) written immediately below or below and
to the right or left of another character.

Superscript Superíndice A distinguishing symbol (such as a numeral or

letter) written immediately above or above and to
the right or left of another character.

SVG SVG Is an XML-based vector image format for defining

two-dimensional graphics, having support for

(Scalable interactivity and animation.

vector
graphics)
Thumbnails Miniatura Are reduced-size versions of pictures or videos,
used to help in recognizing and organizing them,
serving the same role for images as a normal text
index does for words.

TIFF (Tag TIFF Is an image file format for storing raster graphics
images, popular among graphic artists, the

image file publishing industry, and photographers.

format)

Trim Recortar Make something neat or of the required size or

form by cutting away irregular or unwanted parts

Tripod Trípode A three-legged stand, as for a camera.

Type Fuente Printingto write on a typewriter.

Type design Diseño tipográfico Is the art and process of designing typefaces.
This involves drawing each letterform using a
consistent style. The basic concepts and design
variables are described below.

Typefaces Tipo de fuente A particular design of type.

Type families Familias tipográficas Associates data types with other data types, using
a type-level function defined by an open-ended
collection of valid instances of input types and the
corresponding output types.

Type foundry Empresa de Is a company that designs or distributes

diseño de typefaces. Before digital typography, type
tipografías foundries manufactured and sold metal and wood
typefaces for hand typesetting, and matrices for
line-casting machines like the Linotype and
Monotype, for letterpress printers.
Underline Subrayar A line drawn under a word or phrase, especially for
emphasis.

Vector Gráficos vectoriales Is a form of computer graphics in which visual

images are created directly from geometric shapes
graphics defined on a Cartesian plane, such as points,
lines, curves and polygons.

Weight Volumen de carácter Is the overall thickness of a typeface's stroke in any

given font.

White balance Balance de blanco Is the global adjustment of the intensities of the
colors (typically red, green, and blue primary
colors). An important goal of this adjustment is to
render specific colors particularly neutral colors
like white or gray correctly.