Folder: About Video

Chromatic Aberration

Chromatic aberration is a distortion in photography that creates a "color fringe" effect, typically red, orange or magenta and blue, violet or purple colors.
Layer

What is a "Layer" in Computer Graphics? In image editors, video editors, and computer graphics in general, a "layer" is a digital image or graphical effect that is applied or merged with layers underneath it. The simples example is to have a layer that is a large background image at the bottom, and a second […]
Resolution

A term that has two different meanings when talking about digital images, cameras, computer screens, images for printing (DPI), or physical screen space (PPI).
Non-Destructive Editing

Features (and sometimes techniques) in image-editing, photo manipulation, and video-editing applications that allow you to make changes to the original image or footage without losing its original data.
Background Color

The "default" color when there is nothing to display in an area.
Foreground Color

Color is used by the brush, pencil, line, and text tools when you draw or write on an image.
Maintain Aspect Ratio

What is "Maintain Aspect Ratio" and how it works in image-editing programs, with math formula examples.
Aspect Ratio

Ratio between the width and the height of a screen, image, or video.
Units of Measurement

Bits, bytes, pixels, hertz, kilo, mega, giga, tera, kebi, mebi, gibi, tebi, and others.
px

A px after a number stands for pixel. For example: 100px means 100 pixels.
Pixel

A single colored square (or rectangle) in a raster image.