Lessons to Learn: Understanding Graphics

This is a crash course in graphics, this clearly is an overview, and doesn't intend to teach you any particular software package in depth. We hope to cover some very basic definitions, and give you an overview of common graphic software.

This overview is biased toward web page publishing, most of the concepts of graphic design discussed here also apply to desk top publishing or paper publishing.

We'll start with the very basic definitions you need to know to speak the language of graphics.