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Key facts
A 100 × 100 image at 1-bit colour depth = 100 × 100 × 1 = 10,000 bits.
1-bit colour depth gives 2 colours, typically black and white.
A 1920 × 1080 image has roughly 2 million (about 2.07 megapixel) pixels.
A 100 × 100 image at 8-bit colour depth = 100 × 100 × 8 = 80,000 bits.
24-bit colour depth ("True Color") gives about 16.7 million colours, with 8 bits each for red, green, blue.
A bitmap image is made of a rectangular grid of coloured pixels.
A 200 × 200 image at 4-bit colour depth = 200 × 200 × 4 = 160,000 bits.
At 8 bits per pixel an image can represent 256 distinct colour values.
Doubling resolution in both dimensions roughly quadruples the file size (×2 width × ×2 height = ×4 pixels).
Bit depth is the setting that determines how many colours per pixel are possible (same idea as colour depth).
Sample questions
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What is the formula for bitmap file size in bits?
- •Resolution divided by colour depth
- •Width plus height plus colour count
- •Width times height divided by sample rate
- ✓Width times height times depth
What does colour depth mean?
- ✓Bits used per pixel
- •Bytes used to store the whole file
- •Number of pixels per inch
- •Total number of pixels in an image
A 1920×1080 image has how many pixels?
- ✓About 2 million pixels
- •About 20 million pixels
- •About 200 million pixels
- •About 200 thousand pixels
100×100 image at 1 bit. Size in bits?
- •100,000 bits
- ✓10000 bits
- •One thousand bits
- •Ten bits
1-bit colour depth gives how many colours?
- •Eight colours like a flag
- •Four colours like a poster
- •Sixteen colours like early Windows
- ✓Two colours (black and white)
What does higher resolution usually mean?
- •Lower quality with bigger file
- ✓Sharper image but bigger file
- •Sharper image with smaller file
- •Smaller file with sharper image
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