FLOATING SELECTION An image area that “floats” above an image. You can move and edit the floating selection without changing the underlying image until you defloat, or “drop,” the selection on the image. FOLDER A container for documents, applications, and other folders in the Mac OS and Windows file systems. FONT A complete set of characters in one design, size, and style. In typography, a font can be restricted to a particular size and style (such as 10-point Helvetica) or can comprise multiple sizes, or multiple sizes and styles, of a typeface design. FOOTER One or more lines of text that appear at the bottom of every page of a document. Once you specify the text that should appear in the footer, the application automatically inserts it. FRAME (1) One illustration “page” in an animation. An Animation document contains a series of frames which are displayed in sequence to make an animation. (2) A technical term for the outline of an object or text, to which Canvas applies stroke settings, such as dashes. FTP Abbreviation of File Transfer Protocol, the protocol used on the Internet for sending files. GAMUT The range or extent of a color model’s spectrum. GIF Abbreviation for graphics interchange format, a bit-mapped graphics file format used primarily on the Web. GIF supports color and various resolutions. It also includes data compression, making it especially effective for scanned photos. GRADIENT A gradual transition or blend between two or more col- ors. The direction and shape of a gradient can be radial, linear, ellipti- cal, or shape-derived. GRAYSCALE An image mode that uses eight bits of information per pixel for up to 256 brightness levels, from black to white through shades of gray. GROUP (v.) To associate two or more objects so they behave as a unified object; (n.) the resulting object. GUIDES Non-printing lines to which objects can be aligned or even snapped. HALFTONE A pattern of tiny black and white dots that appear to the human eye as shades of gray; a photograph or other image converted to such a pattern for commercial printing.
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