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Anchor Point: allows the user to manipulate paths to change it's shape. It (anchor points) appears along a path at every curve of a path and at the beginning and end of a path. Anchor points does not print out.

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Posterize: a tool in graphic software that reduces the number of shades of gray or colors to a specific number.

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Dodge: to bleach (lighten) a part or the whole of an image.

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Fill: a graphic software tool used to fill selected parts of images or their backgrounds with a color.

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Layers: a function within graphic software that allows the user to assemble, organize and re-edit their artwork. It's a little like those books that show you the inside of a human body, layer by layer. The designer is able to change each layer individually. It's a lot easier to work like this (it's very organized).

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Neon Glow: a tool in graphic software that gives a graphic image the appearance of neon lighting.

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High Resolution Image: an image with a high level of sharpness/clarity. This is very good when it comes to photos, or just making something in a large format (banners and such).

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Typography: the art of arrangement, style, appearance and publishing of type and typefaces.

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Bleedthrough: where a bleed goes through the material and can be seen on the other side. This is not the same as printing double sided. The ink actually soaks through the material and appears on the other side in big blotches.

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Gradient: a function in graphic software that allows the user to fill an object/image with a smooth transition of colors. (ie: red fading into orange, fading into yellow, then green, indigo, and lastly violet. This would represent a rainbow). A rainbow is a sample of a gradient.

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Contrast: the difference in color found between the light and dark areas of an image.

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Finished Size: Size of product after production is completed. Also called Trimmed size.

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White point: on a monitor, this is the point where RGB is in full intensity.

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Pixel: The smallest picture element (used to display an image on a computer), that can be independently assigned a color. Raster images are made up of pixels (blurry artwork) unless made at a high resolution.

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Head: a line or lines of copy set in a larger face than the body copy. Do I have a head in the blog?

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Weight: denotes the thickness of a letter stroke, light, extra-light, "regular," medium, demi-bold, bold, extra bold and ultra bold. The weight of this font is regular, but the word is bold.

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Reverse: A "highlighted" area of text. Where text is a light color, and the background is dark. It stands out a lot more than just standard coloring.

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Saturation: the intensity of a color. The higher the saturation, the brighter the color. Colors in gray scale have no saturation (blacks, white and grays).

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Gradient: when a color fades from color color to another. It's kind of like a sunset; fading from blue, orange, red to yellow.

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Black (font): A heavier font than a bold. For example: swiss black, arial black, universe black and many more. These are "more bold" than a bold font.