| Workspace | The area of computer screen inside the Photoshop window. Once you have the workspace just the way you want it, you can save that configuration using the Window>Workspace>Save Workspace command. |
| Workflow | the process from taking your digital images, downloading them onto a computer and color managing them, through to printing and archiving them |
| Wordspacing | Placing additional space between each word to fill out text in an image or design. Often used to justify the print. |
| Wildcard | An asterisk used in a file search. For instance, a search for *.jpg would result in a list of files stored on the drive with the .jpg extension. |
| Wide Angle Lens | A wide angle lens is one that has an angle of view significantly wider than a normal human perspective. Typically less than 28mm (on the 35mm system). |
| wide angle | shots taken with lenses that have an angle of view significantly wider than a normal human perspective |
| WIA | stands for Windows Image Acquisition. This allows your digital camera, scanner, Photoshop, and Windows XP or ME to work together to acquire images. |
| Whitepoint | a pixel you define as being pure white |
| White Point | The point of minimum density i.e. Dmin in traditional photoprocessing parlance." |
| White Balance | Camera feature to compensate automatically for light sources of different color temperatures (e.g. sunlight, cloudy, fluorescent, and incandescent). |
| Wet Connector | A connector that can be unplugged and reconnected underwater. |
| WBMP | is the standard format for optimizing images for mobile devices, such as cell phones. WBMP supports 1-bit color, which means that WBMP images contain only black and white pixels. |
| Watt | The unit of power W, i.e. the amount of energy dissipated (used) or delivered in unit time. 1 Watt = 1 Joule per Second. |
| Water Paper | Uses blotchy daubs that appear painted onto fibrous, damp paper, causing the colors to flow and blend. |
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