Design Glossary of Terms

Body/Copy 
The body of a layout (also called copy or body copy) is the main text.

CMYK 
CMYK stands for Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black (or Key).

RGB 

Stands for the colors Red-Green-Blue. In web design and design for computer monitors, colors are defined in terms of a combination of these three colors.


Compression 
The process of an algorithm making file sizes smaller by combining similar data.

DPI 
Dots per inch is the more exact way to define the resolution for a file that is to be printed.

PPI
Pixels per Inch is part of how you would define the resolution of an object that is screen based. 


PDF
Portable Document Format. This file type is often used to send print materials to a print shop.

Fireworks 
Fireworks is the Macromedia equivalent of Adobe Photoshop.

Adobe Photoshop
Photoshop is an image manipulation piece of software.  

Hickey
Hickeys happen when foreign matter like dust, blobs of ink or bits of paper make marks on a pront piece.

JPEG
An abbreviation for Joint Photographic Experts Group, the committee that created this file type. 


RAW
A raw file is a collection of unprocessed data. This means the file has not been altered, compressed, or manipulated in any way by the computer. Raw files are often used as data files by software programs that load and process the data.