Assessment 1 Task 4

Pixels
Pixels are the miniscule squares that make up images on the screen that
you are looking at. Each of these pixels can consist of three to four
sections with the colours; red, green and blue or cyan, magenta, yellow
and black. These different colours show at different intensities
(brightness) and to the human eye appear to be one single colour. The
average computer monitor has a resolution of 1920 x 1080 this means
that multiplying them both adds to an equal of 2,073,600 pixels on the
screen at once, this can vary due to the resolution on the screen. The
shape and arrangement of individual pixels can range depending on the
different type of monitor or TV screen. Pixels can also play a part in
measuring image quality as when you zoom into a image, depending on
the image quality you will be able to see the individual coloured pixels
that make up the bitmap (A collection of coloured pixels that make up a
digital image).

Raster images
Raster images or bitmaps are a type of picture which are a grid of pixels
that make up an image. Without zooming, the image quality can appear to
be fine but when zooming in we can see each pixel that makes up the
bitmap and all of the different colours and shades (Image above). Raster
images also have different image formats such as; JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP
and PSD. The JPEG file extention is mainly used for still images with a wide
range of colour, meanwhile a GIF can show a short animation or clip but is
limited to 256 colours. Lossless and lossy compresion also can effect
image quality and file size. Lossless compression constists of making a
copy of the original image but keeps the quality of the image high but
with aq larger file size, whilst Lossy compression trades image quality for
file size.
Lossless

Lossy

Vector Images
Vector images are are images that do not use bitmaps to display the
image, they instaed use mathmatical algorithims to display the image as
the image consists of shapes and outlines and dont have as many
complex details within the image. These types of images are primarily
used for logos and cartoons as they display simple images that dont need
as much detail but have sharpe edges which do not pixelate when zoomed
in. Vector images can also have different file exensions such as SVG and
AMF, which can take into accorunt if the image is 3D.

Bitdepth
Bit depth or colour depth refers to the amount of bits that go into a pixel
to give it a certain colour these can be measured as bits per pixel (BPP).
There can be different types of bitdepth within each picture here are a few
examples.

As we can see in the image the higher the bit depth on an image, the
higer the amount of colours that can be displayed. 1 bit images can only
store two values 0 (white) and 1 (black) and 24 bit images can hold a total
of 16 million colours which will enlarge the picture itself as well as the file
size.

Colour Space

Colour space is basically the amount of

colour a printer or computer monitor can
see or produce. For examplea device that
has a higher colour space would be able to
display more colours within the RGB colour
range. Grayscale images only display the
intesity of the image showing no colours
and only the range between black and
white.

Image Capture
Devices such as cameras and scanners can Digitize images. This
means that a screenshot can be captured from the the real world and
then can be manipulated on a computer with programs such as
photoshop. Depending on the quality of the camera or scanner It will
determine how how much detail is with in the image. For example if a
digital camera has a 7 mega pixel camera (7 million pixels) vs a 12 mega
pixel camera (12 million pixels) The 12 mega pixel camera will of course
have way higher detail within the image as well as a bigger file size before
it is manipulated. Photos can require manipulation with programs because
they will be too big to put on websites or could take a longer time to
download. There are also devices such as 3D scanners which can can an
item in the real world and then digitalize it as a model within the
computer, devices like these are highly expensive and can require some
know how on using them.

Optimizing
Optimizing Is basically making an image work more efficiently for different
purposes, you may choose to optimize an image to make it viewable on
different devices or making the file size smaller so that it can be
downloaded quicker. Images can be optimized in programs like photoshop
which allow the user to change the file format and size of the photo as
well as the bit deoth of the photo itself. Optimizing the bit depth of an
image can be very useful for shortening down file sizes as photos can be
limeted to fewer colours for example, 8 bits only support 256 colours
meanwhile a 16 bit image shows over 16 million different colours.when
the dimensions of a photo increase, the pixels in the image stay the same

size at all time this means that depending on the resolution (number of
pixels).