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A reference companion to the museum — curated topic sections that go deeper on the subjects behind the collection. Every entry, image, and fact is drawn from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons.
Resolution & Pixels
The building blocks of a digital image — pixels and resolution, aspect ratios, megapixels, DPI and pixel density, and scaling images up and down.
7 entriesImage File Formats
How pictures are stored — JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF, TIFF, and raw, plus lossy and lossless compression and the trade-offs between size and quality.
8 entriesColour & Editing
Getting colour and edits right — colour models and spaces, bit depth, histograms and curves, layers and masks, sharpening, and colour management.
10 entriesPrinting & Output
From screen to paper and screen — print resolution and DPI, colour printing and inks, displays and pixel density, and keeping output consistent.
10 entries