2. pixels
• a pixel is a fragment of a digital graphic, it is also referred as a picture
element or pel, pixels are used to build up graphics with in a picture and
make them look more detailed and crisp and can be used to make an
digital animation to look more smooth and refined, the amount of mega
pixels with in a photo/picture effects how good the quality is, 1 mega pixel
is equivalent to 1 million pixels, most modern day phones have a 5 mega
pixel camera which is good for simple internet uploading or for simple
viewing but is not enough to produce a poster, camera’s typically have 10-
20 mega pixels to help produce detailed images for printing, making
posters and for albums and other many uses, pixels are also used in
photo/creative editing software and is usually excisable to change to the
users will to increase its dpi (dots per inch) or ppi (pixels per inch) so that
when it gets printed it wont decrease in quality and look blurry/pixelated.
• Each pixel is colour typically represented by three or four component
intensities such as red, green and blue or cyan, magenta,
