| Glossary of Terms |
BookMaker: The software
application that the MyPublisher customer
downloads in order to create a PhotoBook.
This software is available for free: click
here to download.
BookStore: MyPublisher&'s online tool for sharing, storing and re-ordering PhotoBooks. This service is offered free to all MyPublisher customers who have purchased PhotoBooks. All PhotoBooks purchased through MyPublisher in 2006 are available.
CMYK: A subtractive colour model used in colour printing. This colour model is based on mixing pigments of the following colours in order to make other colours:
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C=cyan | |
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M=magenta | |
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Y=yellow | |
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K=key (black) |
CMYK works through light absorption. The colours that are seen are from the part of light that is not absorbed. In CMYK, magenta plus yellow produces red, magenta plus cyan makes blue and cyan plus yellow generates green. The mixture of ideal CMY colours is subtractive (cyan, magenta, and yellow printed together on white result in black).
NOTE: MyPublisher does not recommend using the CMYK colour model for your photos as it may distort your images. Please use RGB or sRGB.
Design mat: The grey area designated in BookMaker as workspace for the customer to create their PhotoBook.
DPI (dots per inch): A measure of printing resolution, in particular the number of individual dots of ink a printer or toner can produce within a linear one-inch space. Generally, printers with higher DPI produce clearer and more detailed output. The DPI measurement of a printer is dependent upon several factors, including the method by which ink is applied, the quality of the printer components, and the quality of the ink and paper used.
Double-sided Printing: Images will be printed on both sides of the page, front and back. All even numbered pages in your book will be printed on the left and all odd numbered pages will be printed on the right.
Export: To export means to pull data from a program and save it into a data file. The data from the exported file can then be viewed separately from the file it was extracted from, or the exported file is imported into another program.
Full-Bleed Printing: Full-bleed printing means the image is printed to the edge of the page on all sides. Full-bleed horizontal images take up the entire page. There is no white border surrounding the image. Full-bleed vertical images are printed to the edge of the page on the top and bottom but have a white border on the left and on the right of the photo.
Import: To import means to bring a data file from one program into another to be read by the second program. The information in the imported file is converted in the program receiving, or importing, the data so the user can see and use the imported data.
JPEG (.JPG): In computing, JPEG is a most commonly used standard method of compression for photographic images. The most common file extensions for this format are .jpeg, .jiff, .jpg, .JPG, or .JPE although .jpg is the most common on all platforms.
PhotoBook: The finished product that MyPublisher's BookMaker software enables the customer to create. A PhotoBook is created using BookMaker's software, the customer's digital images and creativity, and MyPublisher's top-quality press and bindery tools.
Pixel: A pixel is a small square of digital "information". Millions of pixels combine to make up a digital image.
Resolution: Describes the detail an image holds or how many pixels are in your digital file. The more pixels you have, the better chances you have of printing quality photos.
RGB: An additive model in which red, green and blue light are combined in various ways to reproduce other colours. The name of the model and the abbreviation RGB come from the three colours, Red, Green and Blue, often used in additive light models.
SRGB: Standard RGB (Red Green Blue) is an RGB colour spacecreated cooperatively by Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft Corporation. SRGB defines the red, green, and blue primaries as colours where one of the three channels is at the maximum value and the other two are at zero.
Single-sided Printing: All pages will be printed on the right side (odd-numbered pages) only. There are no images printed on any of the left-hand (even-numbered) pages.
Theme: The overall look and feel of the PhotoBook. Themes may contain certain backgrounds on the PhotoBook pages or may represent the styles of templates available to give a PhotoBook a particular look.
Template: The various layouts of photos and text on the pages.