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 models 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.