Psgrafx.com Trivia

 

 

Psgrafx.com started out as a Photoshop How-to site -- hence the creative name of photoshop graphics (psgrafx)

 

 

Psgrafx.com is updated every single day!

 

 

Psgrafx.com contains 7 catagories and a total of 80+ individual pages -- some hidden

 

 

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Fun Trivial Facts on Photography, Computers and the Internet

 

 

In 1840, the first American patent was issued in photography to Alexander Wolcott for his camera.

 

 

In 1884, George Eastman invents flexible, paper-based photographic film

 

 

Google current indexes 8.06 billion web pages of the 200+ billion pages out there.  The dynamic pages that cannot be indexed by searched engines are called "the invisible web"

 

 

A byte, in computer terms, means 8 bits. A nibble is half that: 4 bits. (Two nibbles make a byte!)

 

 

When measuring fonts 'point size' refers to the height of capital letters (one point being one 72nd of an inch). 'Pitch' is a horizontal measurement of the number of letters which can be printed in an inch

 

 

The first electronic mail, or "email", was sent in 1972 by Ray Tomlinson. It was also his idea to use the @ sign to separate the name of the user from the name of the computer

 

 

A yottabyte the largest unit of computer data storage.

A yottabyte (derived from the SI prefix yotta-) is a unit of information or computer storage equal to one septillion (one long scale quadrillion) bytes. It is commonly abbreviated YB -- it is a million trillion megabytes, which equals  1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes

 

 

Raster images, like those created in PhotoShop, consist of a grid, or raster, of small squares known as pixels

 

 

GIF - (Graphic Interchange Format) An 8-bit format used for Macintosh and PC raster images on the Internet. Its small file size makes for an efficient transmission, but limited color quality makes it unsuitable for most publishing applications

 

 

On computer monitors, "color depth" refers to the number of colors that any pixel can display. The number of colors can range from 16 (4-bit color) to 4,294,967,295 (32 bit color). Color depths of less than 16 bits (65,535 colors) are not suitable for viewing photographs. Surprisingly, the human sees a noticeable degradation even in photos displayed at a 16 bit color depth

 

 

Accessory shoe is a metal or plastic fitting on the top of the camera which support accessories such as viewfinder, rangefinder, or flash gun. The term " hot shoe " is sometimes uses as an alternative to accessory shoe

 


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