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Lesson 4: Create a Greeting Card Class

Definitions

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graphic styles

There are many graphic styles from realistic to abstract.

Graphics

    Images including clip art, photographs, graphic rule lines, borders, dingbats, simple or complex drawings, graphs, and text used as decorative elements.

Clip Art

    Non-photo images created in a graphics program. May be simple or complex. Hand-drawings scanned into a computer and manipulated in a graphics program may also be considered clip art.

Graphics Style

    As used in this lesson, refers to the general appearance of an image -- realistic, cartoon, woodcut, sharp vs. soft lines, iconic vs. detailed drawing, etc.

Bonus Study Material: For more detailed definitions of these or related terms see: Clip Art | Border | Dingbat | Downrule | End Sign | Graph | Lines | Rule

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