Monday, 8 October 2012

Magazine Design A-Z Terminology

airbrush: To retouch photographic images with dye sprayed from a small, high-pressure gun. Similar retouching can be performed digitally with the use of image-manipulation software.

bar code: A series of vertical lines that identify the magazine, the magazine's publisher, and the magazine's price.

clean copy: Copy that is ready to be typeset, or copy that has already been typeset and contains no further corrections.

dummy: A preliminary layout showing the size, shape, form, and general style of a printed piece, including folds.

editor in chief: The top editor at a magazine or book publisher responsible for all editorial decisions. 

flush: To align text or images along one edge of a page layout.

grayscale: The range of gray tones between black and white as displayed on a monitor or in an image. Black and white photos are typiclly refered to as grayscale.

hard copy: The tangible output, usually on laser paper or photographic paper, from an electronic file. 

inside back cover: The opposite side of the back cover in a magazine, booklet, or brochure. Also refered to as Cover 3.

justified: Text in which both the right and left margins are aligned.

keyline: Artwork for offset reproduction that shows outlines indicating the exact shape, position, and size of halftone elements and line sketches.

landscape: An image or page that is horizontally oriented, as opposed to portrait, which is vertically oriented.

manuscript: The raw copy for a book or magazine article (either handwritten or computer-generated) before it is edited and typeset.

news release: An announcement of a new book or a new product sent to a news organization for publication.

orphan: The end of a paragraph or beginning of a column of text that is undesirably short:a single, short word or the end of a hyphenated word.

page layoutThe assembly of the elements on a page, including text and graphics. Also called page composition or page makeup.

quick printer: A vendor that supplies printed materials to consumers and business, specializing in simple print runs of 10,000 or less.

rasterizationThe process of converting mathematical and digital information into a series of dots using an imagesetter for the purpose of producing film negatives or positives.

serif:The small strokes at the end of the main strokes of letterforms.

trim markVertical or horizontal lines placed outside the margins of a page to indicate where the paper should be cut. Also called crop marks.

uploadTo send a file to another computer, as opposed to download, which means to retrieve a file from another computer.

vector-basedGraphics defined by groups of lines, circles, text, and other objects, as opposed to bitmapped graphics, which are defined by pixels. Also called object-oriented graphics.

watermarkA design that is subtly impressed on a sheet of paper by raising the pattern of the dandy roll during papermaking.

x-height: The height of a lowercase "x" in a particular typeface. 

yellowOne of the subtractive primaries (cyan, magenta, yellow, and black) used in four-color process inks.

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