IMAGING AND DESIGN FOR THE ONLINE ENVIRONMENT Imaging and Design for Online Environment is an online graphics and layouts that taught me many effective things in order for me to use image design and its advantages. In this lesson you will learned the basic principles of graphics and layouts. It has balance, emphasis, movement, pattern, repetition and rhythm, proportions, and variety. What is an image? * An image is a picture that has been created or copied and stored in electronic form. An image can be described in terms of vector graphics or raster graphics . An image stored in raster form is sometimes called a bitmap . An image map is a file containing information that associates different locations on a specified image with hypertext links. Examples of image file format: *JPEG *GIF *PNG *TIFF What is graphics? Are visual images or designs on some surface, such as a wall, canvas, screen, paper, ...