Glossary
Writing a glossary for a rapidly evolving field with “unstable terminology” like digital compositing is a tricky but necessary task. A task that is further complicated by an infusion of terms from many other disciplines such as conventional opticals, special effects, photography, computer science, and signal processing. However, it needs be done, so it is done here with the intent of being more helpful to the digital artist than the engineer. Many terms are very technical in nature, but the unabashedly technical definition is often less than helpful to someone trying to make a good composite than a more common sense, task-related definition, so the common sense style prevails in this glossary.
Some of the words in the definitions are ...
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