Below you will find some of the most frequently used terminology within our industry. We have also included further explanations on some of the services we offer.
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Archival Image
A digital image taken at the highest practicable resolution and stored securely.
Additional DVD or CD Copy
Additional copies of your project can be ordered, one is included with all orders
Background (DVD Slideshow)
Background are used behind title pages as well as behind the photos themselves. See also: Background Suggestions
Background Change
Replacing the background of a photo with a new background. See also:
Object / Person Removal & Object / Person Addition
Bitmap (bmp)
This is a commonly used picture format which retains details well but creates very large files.
These are Compact Disks, round plastic and about 5 inches in diameter. They are read optically by laser and touching them will not make them unusable. A CD is a disk that stores computer data or programs or music that has been made by a professional manufacturer. CD's hold about 650MB or the equal of about 400 floppies.
Color Accuracy
Fidelity of color in the scanned image with that in the original
Color Cast Removal
Removal of an unwanted 'wash' of color, performed in an image editing application
Color Correction
Performed with image editing software or scanning software, ensuring scanned color fidelity with the original
Colorization
The adding of color to a photo. See also: Spot Coloring & Photo Colorization
Compression
An algorithm that is applied to a digital image to reduce its file size. Compression can be either Lossy or Lossless
Contrast Adjustment
Adjusting the difference between the lightest and darkest areas of an image
Copyrighted Music
For information related to music copyrights please click here
Cropping
A method of discarding extraneous material from a digital image e.g. borders created during the scanning process
DPI
DVD-Recordable defines a standard for recordable DVD drives and media defined by the DVD Forum. This format is write once (compared to DVD-RW which can be erased and rewritten). The single sided discs can hold 4,700,000,000 bytes (4.38 Gigabytes at 1024 bytes to the kilobyte). This format competes with the DVD+R format.
Photos are scanned into a software package that allows for presenting them in a movie like format. Panning and zooming helps give the photos life as well as adding music to the production.
GIF
Graphics Interchange Format, this is another standard for digitizing images compressed with the LZW algorithm, defined in 1987 by CompuServe. This file format is commonly used on the World Wide Web.
Hardcopy Organization
This is an option of document scanning where your documents will be two hole punched and returned to you in folders. This allows for easy filing.
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Individual Photo Titles
These are titles that are placed directly onto the digital image (the original photo is not labeled or altered)
JPEG (JPG)
A compressed file format widely used today in digital cameras, computer applications, email and web pages. Named after the Joint Photographic Experts Group who devised it. The JPEG format compresses images but sacrifices image detail (lossy compression)
Lossless Compression
A compression algorithm that reduces a file size but does not loose any data. The uncompressed image is identical to the original
A compression algorithm that reduces file size by actually removing data from the image. The post-compressed image is different from the pre-compressed image, even though they may look identical (visually lossless)
Mpeg
Motion Pictures Expert Group - An ISO committee that generates standards for digital video compression and audio. MPEG-1 is optimized for CD-ROM and is the basis for MP3. MPEG-2 is aimed at broadcast quality video for applications such as digital television set-top boxes and DVD. MPEG-3 was merged into MPEG-2. MPEG-4 is a standard for low bandwidth video telephony and multimedia on the World-Wide Web.
MP3
MP3 is an acronym for MPEG-1 (or MPEG-2) Layer 3 audio encoding (it is not an acronym for MPEG3). MP3 is a popular compression format used for audio files on computers and portable devices. The compression in MP3 works on the basis of a "psychoacoustic model" which means that parts of the audio that human ears cannot detect are discarded by the encoder. Although this is a lossy process, it can yield very high quality audio files are relatively high compression rates. A typical MP3 file encoded at 128 kbit/s (12:1 compression) is near CD quality. MP3 audio is increasingly being used in video production coupled with various MPEG-4 video codecs like divx. The audio may be encoded with a constant or variable bitrate.
Music Copyrights
For information related to music copyrights please click here
Digitally removing a person or object from a photo and filling in the area with the surrounding background.
Digitally adding a person or object to a photo from another photo.
Ohio Tax
Residents of Ohio must include their counties sales tax when placing an order as CT Imaging is located in Ohio. For more information please visit http://tax.ohio.gov/
Online Viewing
The ability to view a DVD slideshow online via the CT Imaging website and a high speed (DSL or Cable) internet connection.
When you display an image by moving your picture or image left, right, up, or down to see parts not shown in the display area.
This is the firm used to handle all of CT Imaging's credit card payments. For more information please visit www.paypal.com
Photos scanned are placed on a CD-R or DVD-R (not in a slideshow format) for storage or sharing. This is done to protect the photos from deterioration or damage.
Taking a black and white photo and adding color to all or part of the photo.
Prints of Completed Project
Professionally printed photos.
Scanning Resolution
The amount of information that is captured during the scan -- expressed as Dots (pixels) Per Inch.
Slide or Slides)
This represent one photo or title page within a slideshow.
This is a photo colorization method that will color only a portion of a photo, this is typically done to highlight a person or object in a photo.
Taxes
Residents of Ohio must include their counties sales tax when placing an order as CT Imaging is located in Ohio. For more information please visit http://tax.ohio.gov/
Thumbnail Image
Small, low resolution preview, often hyper linked to a high resolution version of the same image
TIFF (TIF)
Tagged Image File Format. A widely used non-compressed file format used today in high end graphic applications and for archival purpose.
These are slides within a slideshow with text to mark an important event or chapter within the slideshow.
White Balance
An adjustment made by a capture device to correct for any color bias due to the color temperature of the light source
The act of closing in on, or backing out of/adding distance to, a certain area of a photo.
