Hi, my name is Oscar Lovinsky Mike. I'm live in Montreal. It's my first year in a Technique at Montmorency College. My field of study is Micro-publishing And Hypermedia. I wanted to do this glossary to help students or future students who's interested to office technique or graphic design. I carefully chosen the words for the glossary, and I think they can be very useful. You maybe know some of this words meaning's or daily hears it but never knew the meaning. I hope you it's help you, and get you know more about my field. And don't forget to leave a comment, tell me if it's help you or if you have any questions.
alignment
noun
Alignment is the position of text or graphics, whether left, right, centered or full justified.
Example: We're changing the alignment of the proposition.
en: alignement
blur
verb/ noun
A Blur makes images more unclear or less distinct.
Example: A Blur suggests confusion, lack of clarity, but also velocity.
en: brouiller, estomper
cMYK
noun
CMYK is a color model that is used for print purposes. CMYK colors begin as white and then get darker as more colors are combined.
Example: This combination is referred to as CMYK, where K stands for Key.
en: cMYK
compression
noun
Compression is the method computers use to make files smaller by reducing the number of bits used to store the information.
Example: You can also switch on compression of processed log files and sending them to a specific e-mail address.
en: compression
contrast
noun
Contrast occurs when two elements on a page are different. For example, it could be different colors between the text and the background color or dark vs. light colors.
Example: Use the monitor controls to lower screen brightness and raise contrast.
en: contraste
crop
noun
When you crop an image, you’re cutting away and discarding the unnecessary portions of the image. Cropping allows you to change the emphasis or direction of an image.
Example: Users can resize and crop images, or make adjustments to brightness and contrast.
en: surgir, couper
flyer
noun
A small handbill advertising an event or product.
Example: Yes, he was a noted flyer for the aircraft corporation.
en: prospectus
graphic design
noun
The art or skill of combining text and pictures in advertisements, magazines, or books.
Example: Powerful graphic design tools save you time every day, providing shortcuts that were designed to optimize your workflow.
en: conception graphique
icon
noun
A person or thing regarded as a representative symbol or as worthy of veneration.Icons are images used to represent an action or an object.
Example: You can even drag one of these icons to the desktop.
en: icône
lorum ipsum
noun
In publishing and graphic design, Lorem ipsum is a placeholder text commonly used to demonstrate the visual form of a document or a typeface without relying on meaningful content.
en: lorem ipsum
montage
noun
The process or technique of selecting, editing, and piecing together separate sections of film or picture to form a continuous whole.
Example: The artist created a beautiful montage with photos and text.
en: montage
opacity
noun
The condition of lacking transparency or translucence; opaqueness. The lower the opacity, the more transparent an element is. For example, 100% opacity means an object is solid.
Example: I then adjusted the opacity of the two layers.
en: opacité
pixel
noun
A minute area of illumination on a display screen, one of many from which an image is composed.
Example: The camera scans photographs and encodes the image into pixels.
en: pixel
pixelate
verb
Divide (an image) into pixels, typically for display or storage in a digital format.
Example: Police have asked the media to pixelate the faces of the men who were taken into custody.
en: pixéliser
resolution
noun
Is the detail an image holds. The term applies to raster digital images, film images, and other types of images. Higher resolution means more image detail.
Example: Print quality must be perfectly executed relative to colour references and image resolution matched to paper quality.
en: resolution
rgb
noun
The RGB color model is an additive color model[1] in which red, green, and blue light are added together in various ways to reproduce a broad array of colors.
Example: It would improve clarity to use the RGB inputs of modern TVs.
en: rgb
serif
noun
A serif is the little extra stroke or curves, at the ends of letters.
Example: Decide if you want to use serif or sans-serif font.
en: empattement
template
noun
A template is a file that serves as a starting point for a new document.
Example: Various templates are available to create common documents on ms- word.
en: modèle
typography
noun
The style and appearance of printed matter.
the art or procedure of arranging type or processing data and printing from it.
Example: The "markup" part comes from the art of typography, where magazine and book editors would "mark up" copy so that the typesetters would know what parts to make BOLD or italic or the like.
