Pixels in Binary
How is a pixel made?
Explain the representation of an image as a series of pixels represented in binary
Each pixel is stored in order as a series of binary digits. The more colours in the image, the more binary you need to represent each pixel. The amount of bits (binary digits) used for each pixel is called the colour depth of the image. With a 1 bit colour depth you can represent two colours (because a bit can be either 0 or 1). With 8 bit colour depth you can have 256 colours. That’s 00000000 to 11111111 in binary. Pictures actually have more colours than you’d expect, so the .jpg format has a colour depth of 24 bits (16777216 colours).
Explain the need for metadata
metadata attached.
Discuss the effect of colour depth and resolution
The higher the resolution, the more information needs to be stored for an image of any given size. Colour depth is used to describe the maximum number of colours that are used in the image. The higher the number of colours then the more realistic the image will appear. With bitmap images, the chosen colour depth will affect the final file size.