Acronyms, Meanings and Abbreviations used in a digital imaging user group
(Akronym är ett initialord som uttalas som ett "vanligt ord". T ex NATO
ACR: Adobe Camera Raw or as it is now called Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw
AF : autofocus drive from camera body
ASP : Aspherical lens element used
AWB: Automatic white balance
Bokeh = "the Japanese-originated concept of the difference between out of focus areas of an image due to lens design." Blurred background
C1: Capture One (Raw converter from PhaseOne)
CCD: Charge-Coupled Device
CD: Compact Disk
CD-R: Compact Disc-Recordable
CIE - An acronym for a chromaticity coordinate system developed by the Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage, the international commission on illumination. In the CIE system, a plot of ratios (x, y and z) of the three standard primary colors (tristimulus values) to their sum. The most common diagram is the 2 dimensional CIE (x,y).
CMOS: Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
CMS: Color Management System
CMYK: Cyan Magenta Yellow blacK (Key) Also known as the "devils colorspace"
CPU: Central Processing Unit
CRT: Cathode-Ray Tube
CS: Creative Suite
DAC: Digital-to-Analog Converter
DAM : Digital Asset Manager. T. ex Adobe Bridge
DPI : Dots per inch - the number of distinct pixels that can be produced horizontally or vertically in a linear inch.
D-SLR : -Digital Single Lens Reflex
Read more: http://www.brighthub.com/multimedia/photography/articles/7634.aspx#ixzz0QVBZc1uD DSP : Digital signal processing
DTP : Desktop publishing, including typesetting, image handling and page composition
DOT : A hafttone dot used in color separations. Haftone dots have fixed density of CMYK, but variable size. By varying the size and shape of a halftone dot, continuous tone colors can be created. Also the minimum addressable point in a dot-matrix printer.
DPI: Dots Per Inch
DI: Digital Imaging
DX : digital camera only (not full frame)
DVD : Digital Video Disk EEM: Epson Enhanced Matte
EPS: Encapsulated PostScript
EVFA: Epson Velvet Fine Art
EXIF: Exchangeable Image File Format
GCR: Gray Component Replacement
GIGO : Garbage In Garbage Out
GM: GretagMacbeth
GUI: Graphical User Interface
HD: Hard Drive
HDR: High Dynamic Range
HSI -: An acronym for the Hue-Saturation-Intensity color representation. A mathematical conversion from RGB. Often used for machine vision analysis.
i1 : EyeOne (Spectrophotometer from GretagMacbeth)
I/O : An acronym for Input/Output data either entering or leaving a system. Input may be camera, tape, disk, video, scanner, and output may be tape, disk, CD ROM, film recorder, printer, plotter, or imagesetter.
ICC : International Color Consortium
ID : InDesign
IP: Imageprint
IPTC: International Press Telecommunications Council
ISO: International Organization for Standardization
JPEG: Joint Photographic Experts Group
Kludge: Poorly designed
LED: Light Emitting Diode
LZW: Lempel-Zif-Welsh (a compression format)
MB: MegaByte
MP: MegaPixel
OOF : Out Of Focus
PDF: Portable Document Format
PG: Pixel Genius
PGPP: (Epson) Premium Glossy Photo Paper
Pixel : An acronym for "picture element." The smallest distinguishable and resolvable area in an image. The discrete location of an individual photo-sensor in a solid state camera.
PK: PhotoKit
PLU: (Epson) Premium Luster
PM: Pixel Mafia
PMP: ProfileMaker Pro
PMT: PhotoMultiplier Tube
PPCM: Pixels/centimetre
PPI: Pixels Per Inch
PPM: Pixles Per Millimeters
PPMM: Pixels/mm
PR: (Hahnemuhle) Photo Rag
PS: Photoshop
PSM: (Epson) Premium Semi-Matte
RAID: Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
RDF: Resource Description Framework (additional XML schema)
RGB: An acronym for the Red-Green-Blue color space. .
RIP: Raster Image Processor
RTFM: Read The Frigging* Manual
SCSI: Small Computer System Interface
SDK: System (Software) Development Kit
SGML: Standard Generalized Markup Language
SLR : Single lens reflex camera (the same thing as a D-SLR, only referring to film cameras
SPI: Samples Per Inch
TAC: Total Area Coverage (also known as Total Ink Limits)
TIFF: Tagged Image File Format
TWAIN: Technology Without An Interesting Name (really!)
UC: Ultrachrome Ink (pigmented ink for Epson printers)
UCA: Under Color Addition
UCR: Under Color Removal
UI: User Information
USM: UnSharp Mask
UV: Ultra Violet
VGA: Video Graphics Array
VM: Virtual Memory
WYSIWYG: What You See Is What You Get
XML: eXtensible Markup Language
XMP: Extensible Metadata Platform
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Updated September 8, Year 2009