Writing For Designers (Task 4)

1. Grid - is a structure (usually two-dimensional) made up of a series of intersecting straight (vertical, horizontal, and angular) or curved guide lines used to structure content.
2. Brainstorm - a group or individual creativity exercise
3. Cropping - refers to the removal of the outer parts of an image to improve framing, accentuate subject matter or change aspect ratio.
4. Headline - is the text indicating the nature of the article below it.
5. Resolution - refers to how detail an image holds.
6. Tone - set of colors to another in order to approximate the appearance of high dynamic range images in a medium that has a more limited dynamic range.
7. Shape - two-dimensional space that can be defined by edges, setting one flat specific space apart from another.
8. Contrast - refers to differences in values, colors, textures, shapes, and other elements.
9. Space - is a three-dimensional volume that can be empty or filled with objects.
10. Depth - is the distance between the nearest and farthest objects in a scene that appear acceptably sharp in an image.
11. Pixel - is the smallest unit of measurement that a device can work with.
12. Baseline - is the imaginary horizontal line that the majority of the letters reside.
13. Gradient - refers to a function in graphic software permitting a person to make an image contain a gradual change of colors (such as purple turning gradually into blues and then greens).
14. Outline - the outer  border of a graphic or area of text.
15. Emboss  - Give the image dimension by giving the image an appearance as if it was projecting from a flat surface.
16. Export - to permit a user to save a file in a different format in order to open it in another program.
17. Bevel - give an image a raised appearance by the addition of a beveled effect; highlight and shadow colors are applied to the interior and exterior edges of the image.
18. Caption - a title for a picture or an illustration ; frequently a caption is a short phrase.
19. Word wrap - consists of the automatic removal of characters to the following line if the right margin is reached in a text editor or word processor.
20. Spread - joining of two facing pages that are created to work as a unit in a double-sided document.A spread also refers to the inner panels of a brochure.
21. Solarization - a photographic image displayed in a manner in which the whites and blacks of the image are black in appearance; the midtones of the image lean more towards white in appearance.