Folder: About Images

Image Effects Image Formats

Danger: Your Image Files may be Destroyed by Default

A warning about some image viewers and image editors that will overwrite your image flies by default without saying anything.
Icon

A small image used to indicate something in the computer screen.
bpp

Bits per pixel: unit of measurement for how many bits are necessary to encode the data of one pixel of an image, e.g. 1bpp, 8bpp, 24bpp, 32bpp.
Units of Measurement

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

A color format typically used for transparent images: RGB plus alpha.
RGB

Red, green, and blue, the three primary colors.
Graphics

Term used to refer to anything graphical related to the computer, including images, videos, 3D models, visualizations, etc.
Megapixel

An unit of measurement meaning 1 million pixels.
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.