WHAT IS EDITING?
The phrase “Editing and Graphics of Communication” has three content words and two structural words. The content words are the keywords and they are: “Editing”, “Graphics” and “Communication”. The structural words are “and” and “of”. These conjunctions, though often meaningless in themselves, are joined to the content words in order to make the phrase “editing and Graphics of Communication, complete and meaningful. For a proper definition, it is necessary to pick the content words one after the other and describe it as this move will logically provide the platform to evolve a proper definition of the term. One can only delve into the details of this course on the platform of proper definition.
Editing:
This is a process of enhancing the quality of texts or graphics through amendment, as well as addition and subtraction of materials. Editing is an improvement process by which a graphic item is made adequately
readable, understandable or communicable. Editing can be done on images, as well as on texts. Different kinds of editing that can be performed on texts including structural, copy as well as proofreading. Most layout and graphic software applications like Photoshop, QuarkXPress and Corel Draw (and Corel PhotoPaint) have the capacity to edit, as well as manipulate graphics and texts.
The more the number of professionals who edit a graphic or editorial item, the more the quality improves. This is why in editing, two heads are better than one. Part of this course is devoted to editorial and graphic editing.
1. WHAT IS GRAPHICS ?
Graphics can be functional or artistic. When graphics are functional, it means that they are not mere impression but actually useful or are performing some particular functions. For instance, the texts and photographs you see in newspapers are not for decoration, They are published to inform, educate and inform. When they are artistic, they are created for style to invoke or provoke one’s sense of aesthetics and create some fantasy, feeling or figment of imagination.