CEI - Creating and Editing Images (Overview)

 

Overview

Introduction

The impact of images in today’s world, especially on businesses, has become a phenomenon. Getting the right picture is a continuous challenge. Often a business will use a royalty-free image from another website, creates its own image, or use original photos as a marketing tool. With accessible and powerful image-editing software that makes altering photographs more common, businesses are driven to produce images that have layers of meanings and focal points for the viewer. In this module, you will learn the keys to creating that perfect image.

Essential Questions

  1. How can you become a responsible digital citizen when using images for presentations and websites?
  2. What constitutes a good photograph?
  3. What are ways to get your point of view across in an image?
  4. What are some essential composition and editing techniques that can be applied to enhance an image?
  5. How important are well-designed images to a website?
  6. How can you use composition techniques to enhance your photos?
  7. What are some common photo editing concepts and features that are useful when you are designing websites or other or other media that incorporate photos?

Key Terms

  • Digital Photography: A form of photography that uses electronic photodetectors to form an image.
  • Framing: A composition technique that uses elements in a scene to visually create a frame around the subject to make it stand out.
  • Image Resolution: The number of pixels in the image.
  • Photographic Composition Techniques: Guidelines used to arrange the elements within the frame of the digital camera to help capture the desired focal point in the best capacity.
  • Point of View: The angle from the camera shots.
  • Raster Images (Bitmap Images): Pixel based images.
  • Rule of Thirds: A composition guideline that states that an image should be placed in the left or right third of an imaginary grid of nine equal parts where the lines of the grid intersect, leaving the other two-thirds more open and creating a negative space.
  • Vector Images: Images that are created using mathematical equations, lines (known as paths), and curves rather than pixels.

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