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A 4-bit image can display 16 colors. Each bit pattern from 0000 to 1111 represents a different color. Increasing color depth allows more bits per pixel, improving image quality but increasing file size. Decreasing image resolution reduces the number of pixels, lowering quality but decreasing file size. A 1000x1000 pixel image with 8-bit color would have a file size of 1000kB.

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Images - Answers - BrainQuest

A 4-bit image can display 16 colors. Each bit pattern from 0000 to 1111 represents a different color. Increasing color depth allows more bits per pixel, improving image quality but increasing file size. Decreasing image resolution reduces the number of pixels, lowering quality but decreasing file size. A 1000x1000 pixel image with 8-bit color would have a file size of 1000kB.

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CSUK:BrainQuest Images - Answers

Task 1: How many colours can a 4-bit image contain? Explain your answer.

A 4-bit image can contain 16 different colours.


With 4 bits, you can represent the numbers 0 (0000) to 15 (1111). Task 4: What is meant by image resolution?

Each number can represent a different colour. Image resolution describes the number of pixels used in a given area. It therefore describes the
detail of an image, with high resolution images being highly detailed / high quality and with low
Therefore, pixels in a 4-bit image could be 1 of 16 different colours. resolution images being low quality, perhaps even being pixelated.

Task 5: Explain the effect of increasing an images colour depth?


Task 2: Colour the following bitmap image to show how it would be displayed on If an image’s colour depth is increased, it means more bits are used to represent each pixel’s
a screen. colour.
This will improve the overall quality of the image.
However, the increase in bits used will increase the file size.

Task 6: Explain the effect of decreasing an images resolution?


00 11 10 11 00 00 White
If an image’s resolution is decreased, it means fewer pixels will be used to make up the overall
image.
Light This will reduce the overall quality of the image.
11 10 01 10 11 01 However, the decrease in pixels will mean that fewer bits are used, therefore decreasing the file
Grey
size.

Dark Task 7: What will be the file size (in kB) of an images file with dimensions 1000 x
10 01 00 01 10 10 1000 pixels, and with a colour depth of 8 bits? Show your workings in full.
Grey

Overall pixels in image -> 1000 x 1000 = 1,000,000 pixels


11 10 01 10 11 11 Black Colour depth of 8 bits means 8 bits per pixel -> 1,000,000 * 8 = 8,000,000
So, 8,000,000 bits used in the image.
To convert to kB, we first must convert bits to bytes by dividing by 8 -> 8,000,000 / 8 =
1,000,000
Then we divide by 1000 to convert to kB -> 1,000,000 / 1000 = 1,000 kB
00 11 10 11 00

Task 3: What is meant by colour depth?


Colour depth is the number of bits used to represent the colour of each pixel.

The more bits used to represent the colour of each pixel, the greater the number of colours each
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