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1. sRGB (standard RGB [red, green & blue] color space) – This is the color space we, by default, assume your images to be in. It’s the standard setting for digital cameras and monitors.
2. Pixel - This is the smallest item of information in a digital image. Each pixel has 3 or 4  color components, either red, green and blue (RGB) or cyan, magenta, yellow and black (CMYK). Pixels are nomally arranged in a grid of either dots or squares. A Megapixel is simply 1 million pixels. This can refer to the amount of information contained in an image or the amount of image sensor elements in your digital camera.
3. DPI (dots per inch) – Refers to the physical dot density of an image when it is printed onto paper or displayed on a monitor. A digitally stored image has no inherent physical dimensions, measured in inches or centimetres.
4. Aspect Ratio – Refers to the proportions (height and width) of an image as printed, displayed on a monitor, or captured by a digital camera. 
5. Automatic Image Correction (AIC) – Refers to the enhancement software used in our production process. The AIC automatically sharpens images and corrects over/under exposure, saturation issues, contrast and skin tone. However, the AIC must be switched off if your images have been altered in an image editing software such as Photoshop. The AIC will recognize that your images have been altered from their original state and will prompt you to deactivate it for the relevant image/s.
6. Red-eye removal - This effect is caused by flash photography and is caused by light bouncing from the retina of the eye in dim light when the irises are wide open. If you double-click on any image in your photo book, you will access the image editor which contains an easy to use red-eye removal tool.
7. JPEG – (Joint Photographic Experts Group) 24-bit color file format that reduces file sizes by selectively discarding image data. Although you can fit many more images onto your memory card by decreasing the quality setting on your camera, we do reccomend that you always save your images in the highest quality possible. Images that look good on a monitor (72 dpi resolution) will not necessarily contain enough image data to give a good print result (for SmileBooks we require at least 300 dpi). Increasing the dpi post capture will not improve the image quality.
8. Electro-photographic printing – This is the print pocess used for SmileBooks on digital print paper. In this process, an image is transferred via a laser onto paper by means of electrically charged toner or liquid ink and paper. The toner is then thermally fixed onto the paper.
9. Silver-halide printing – This is the print process used for SmileBooks on silver halide (photo) paper. The process involves the exposure of  a digital image onto light sensitive paper and the development of this paper  in order to create a color print. This process is also used for classic prints.
10. Perfect binding - We use perfect binding for our hard and soft cover SmileBooks. This process involves joining the cover and the book block together at the spine with a strong, flexible glue. The inner pages are rough-cut along the back (spine edge) to make them absorb the hot glue. The three outer sides are then face trimmed.

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