digital image

Screen-displayed photo

A digital image is a picture stored as electronic data rather than on film or paper.

Digital images are composed of pixels—tiny discrete units of color and brightness—and can be created by cameras, scanners, or software.

Unlike analog photographs, digital images can be copied indefinitely without degradation and edited with precision: She cropped the digital image to remove the background.

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resolution · high resolution · color · histogram · metadata · color depth · RAW · compression · computer vision · bit depth · aspect ratio · color correction · rasterised · file format · upload · noise reduction · zoom · render

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digital imageprint

Transfer text to paper

printout · hard copy · photographic negative · film negative · analog recording

creation process

digital imagepainting

Pigment on canvas

drawing · sketch · illustration · oil painting · watercolor

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