| You know what a pixel is or a least you think you | | | | Therefore all eight zeros in a eight bit image |
| do. In reality it is something that you totally take | | | | construct which equals zeros would represent |
| for granted as the basic unit of the images that | | | | black or in other words no intensity. On the other |
| have literally invaded life in the last 15-20 years. | | | | hand all 1's which would equal 255 in binary would |
| Pixels are used generically for many, many | | | | represent white or maximum intensity. |
| different concepts that all have one thing in | | | | In color the numbers represent the intensities of |
| common and that is some sort of image. You | | | | three colors - red, green, and blue (rgb format). |
| could be talking about the dot in a printed image, | | | | The amount of colors in a palette depends on the |
| or the cell of a lcd screen, or simply the resolution | | | | amount of bits per pixel (bpp) in the image. In |
| that a display is capable of displaying, or more | | | | eight bpp (two bits for red, three for green, and |
| technically the binary code that a computer uses | | | | 2 for blue) there can be two to the power of 8 |
| to store an image file. | | | | colors or 256 colors. In 16 bpp there are greater |
| The computer revolution has lead to huge | | | | than 60,000 possible colors to choose from. Pixels |
| advances and has taken computer graphics much | | | | are amazing aren't they. |
| closer to the true representation of objects in life | | | | What you want to know is what this all has to do |
| that we see with our eyes. This is most apparent | | | | with internet marketing, so here is the deal. Pixels |
| in the areas of video games and digital | | | | can also be used to describe space in an add. |
| photography. When someone is referring to pixels | | | | There are scripts that can automate the |
| as in the code that a computer uses to store the | | | | production of an add that contains the images of |
| image digitally it may be more helpful to refer to | | | | the different companies and if the pixel is clicked |
| them as texels. | | | | on the user is taken to the sales page for that |
| So how can such complex information be stored | | | | company. The pixels are sold in 100 pixel blocks |
| into a computer and understood in binary, that is | | | | and this type of advertising has become huge |
| a series of ones and zeros? Well I am going to | | | | since a student made a million bucks with one |
| attempt in the next one and one half paragraphs | | | | page by selling space like this. There are tools that |
| to give you a whirlwind explanation. So we will | | | | can automate this process and you too could get |
| start with black and white. Here each number in | | | | in on this amazing money-making opportunity! |
| binary code refers to an intensity of the pixel. | | | | |