Glossary
Special thanks to Glen Stephens, from Tools for Television, for help writing this glossary.
- 8-bit color
256 different colors per channel.
- 16-bit color
65,536 different colors per channel.
- 32-bit color
4.3 billion different colors per channel.
- action safe area
The action safe area of an image is the outer box of the safe grid. All action taking place onscreen should be composed inside this area, or it won’t be seen when viewed on a television set.
- actions
Scriptable macros within Photoshop that allow you to record your steps in the design process and easily repeat those steps multiple times. Actions can be assigned to F keys and used to batch-process files. Virtually all menu commands and processes are available to be recorded as actions.
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