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| American computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California, USA. The company has historically focused upon the creation of multimedia and creativity software products, with a more-recent foray towards rich Internet application software development. |
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| How text is positioned between margins such as left, center, and right. |
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| A digital audio editor and recording application that is free, open source and cross-platform software available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and BSD. |
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| A web-based software program for placing classroom courses, such as assignments and grades, online for student use at school or at home. |
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| In Publisher, used to create a document from scratch using whatever format, colors, and designs are preferred. |
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| Lines that are placed around text for emphasis or decoration. |
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| A type of folding pamphlet or leaflet that may advertise locations, events, hotels, products, services, etc. They are usually succinct in language and eye-catching in design. |
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| A character or symbol placed before text, usually in a list, to add emphasis. |
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| Cards bearing information about a company or individual typically displaying the giver's name, company affiliation (usually with a logo) and contact information such as street addresses, telephone number(s), fax number, e-mail addresses and website. They are shared during formal introductions as a convenience and a memory aid. |
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| Graphics that are already drawn and available for use in documents. |
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| Using the ALT key with the mouseclick to pick up the color and pattern of an image and apply it elsewhere. |
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| A duplicate of the selected text or the picture is placed on the clipboard while the origiinal remains in the document. |
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| A form of intellectual property that gives the author of an original work exclusive right for a certain time period in relation to that work, including its publication, distribution and adaptation, after which time the work is said to enter the public domain. |
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| One of the most basic photo manipulation processes, it is performed in order to remove an unwanted subject or irrelevant detail from a photo, change its aspect ratio, or to improve the overall composition |
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| Removes selected text or picture from the document and places it on the Clipboard. |
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| A computer setting that is used unless another option is chosen. |
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| In Publisher, a series of documents (letterheads, business cards, envelopes, etc.) that incorporate the same design. |
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| The space where you access and work with computer programs and files. |
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| The process of combining text and graphics to create attractive documents. |
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| A representation of a two-dimensional image usually refering to raster images also called bitmap images. |
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| A type of appearance attribute which alters an object's appearance without altering the object itself. |
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| A color you apply that fills an object. |
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| Used to alter the look of an image and give it a special, customized appearance by applying special effects such as distortions, changes in lighting, and blurring. |
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| In Photoshop, a way of arranging your file windows to float in the workspace so you can easily see and work with all of them simultaneously. |
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| A single page handbill or leaflet advertising an event, service, or other activity by individuals or businesses to promote their products or services. |
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| A place where files and other folders are stored on the computer. |
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| Determined by measuring the height of characters in units called points. |
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| Formatting feature that changes the appearance of text such as bold, italic, and underline. |
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| Designs of type such as Times New Roman, Comic Sans, and Arial. |
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| The Graphics Interchange Format, a standard file format for compressing images by lowering the number of colors available to the file. |
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| A graduated blend between two or more colors used to fill an object. |
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| Pictures that help illustrate the meaning of the text or that make the page more attractive. |
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| Selecting a block of text; also coloring a block of text for emphasis. |
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| Small pictures that represent an item or object such as the pictures on the computer desktop. |
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| Small boxes or circles that appear around an object when it is selected that can be dragged to resize the object. |
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| A legality where owners are granted certain exclusive rights to a variety of intangible assets, such as musical, literary, and artistic works; discoveries and inventions; and words, phrases, symbols, and designs. Common types include copyrights, trademarks, patents, industrial design rights and trade secrets in some jurisdictions. |
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| A vast network of computers linked to one another. |
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| The Microsoft Office browser for navigating the Web. |
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| Named after the Joint Photographic Experts Group who created the standard, a commonl method of photographic compression (10:1) with little perceptible loss of image quality. |
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| Page orientation where the document is wider than it is long. |
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| A section within an image on which objects can be stored. |
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| Stationery printed with a business's contact information, logo, and design that is used for correspondence. |
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| The amount of space between lines of text. |
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| One aspect of a company's identification or "branding" including it's shapes, fonts, colors, and images usually different from others and used to identify the company and it's products and or services. |
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| A common audio format for consumer audio storage, as well as a de facto standard of digital audio compression for the transfer and playback of music on digital audio players. |
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| In Photoshop, used to erase areas in an image that have similar-colored pixels. |
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| Blank spaces around the top, bottom, and sides of a page. |
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| Button at the right side of the title bar that you click to enlarge a window to fill the screen. |
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| List of options from which to choose. |
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| A bar normally at the top of the screen that lists the names of menus. |
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| A software program for creating desktop publishing documents such as flyers, brochures, and business cards. |
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| A software program for creating written documents such as reports and letters. |
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| Button at the right side of the title bar that you click to reduce a window to a button on the taskbar. |
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| The desktop icon that you open to access storage devices such as the Netshare G drive, a floppy disk, a jump drive, CD, or DVD. |
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| The desktop icon that you open to access the files you create and save under your computer login. |
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| The storage area that Beechcroft High School uses for students to access Business Student Files that go with your text book. |
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| Determines the percentage of transparency; difficult to see through. |
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| The process of loading a file from a disk onto the screen. |
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| In Photoshop, these are floating windows that can be moved and are used to modify objects. |
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| Text that is copied from the clipboard and placed at the insertion point in the document. |
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| A graphics editing program that is the current market leader for commercial bitmap and image manipulation software. |
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| A picture element in digital imaging made up of a single point in a raster image, normally arranged in a 2-dimensional grid, and often represented using dots or squares. |
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| Moving the mouse pointer to a specific item on the screen. |
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| The page orientation where the document is longer than it is wide. |
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| Allows you to view a document as it will appear when it is printed. |
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| A list of commands that appears below each menu name on the menu bar. |
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| A file that can be viewed but not changed such as the files in the Yearbook folder. |
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| A place to get rid of files or folders that are no longer needed. Items are not deleted until it is emptied. |
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| The density of pixels per inch in a digital image whether displayed on a screen or printed on paper. For example a common web page image resolution for a monitor screen is 72:1; print copy is 300:1. |
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| The process of storing a file on a disk such as My Documents. |
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| A transformation in which an object changes size. |
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| An electronic device that converts print materials into an electronic file. |
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| These appear at the bottom and/or right side of a window to allow the user to view another part of the window's contents. |
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| Box in the scroll bar that indicates your position within the contents of the window. |
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| Highlighting a block of text. |
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| In Photoshop, bevel and emboss settings that determine how pigments are combined for a 3D effect. |
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| A way of undoing the last edit in a history of edits saved in a Photoshop file. |
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| A bar normally at the bottom of a screen that displays the Start button and the names of all open programs. |
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| A separate window usually on the right hand side of the opening screen that contains commonly used commands. |
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| A file that contains page and paragraph formatting and text that you can customize to create a new document similar to but slightly different from the original. |
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| A graphic object created for entering text that can be manipulated and resized. |
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| Allows users to apply design and color schemes to documents such as flyers and brochures. |
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| Reduced-size versions of pictures. |
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| A bar at the top of a window that contains the name of the open program, document, or folder. |
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| Clicking a toolbar button to turn a feature on or off such as clicking on Bold to turn it on or off. |
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| The act of moving, scaling, skewing, or rotating an object. |
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| Uniform Resource Locator; a web address. |
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| How text is positioned between the top and bottom margins of a document. |
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| Software, such as Internet Explorer, that is used to display Web pages on your computer screen. |
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| The use of a computer and software to produce written documents such as letters and reports. |
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| A feature that automatically wraps words around to the next line when they will not fit on the current line (without pressing the enter key). |
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| A system of computers that share information by means of hypertext links. |
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