 Many people like the flexibility of digital images. For example:  They can be shared by attaching to /uploading to Internet  Sent via mobiles  Edited  Saved onto different media  Organised onto albums/displays  Printed  Many cameras have video capability

 Images stored on ‘flash’ memory cards, this means memory that can be written to and erased over and over  Memory can be directly downloaded to computer and saved onto other media for back up for example  Output device – screen on camera others include:  Computer screen, printer, TV, mobile phone screen, digital photo frame

 Images are made up of millions of ‘dots’ or ‘Pixels’  Resolution is the number of pixels in a given area  A pixel is the smallest amount of information that can be displayed on a screen, each pixel can have its own colour  The greater the number of pixels the higher the resolution. More expensive cameras have higher resolution and the quality will be better but it takes up more space  Pixels usually measured in ‘Megapixels’ 1 MP million Pixels

 Using this you can:  Copy part of image  Add text  Re-size  Crop  Remove red eye  Alter file format  Apply filters  Change brightness/contrast