Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
atténuation
English translation:
contrast / brightness
Added to glossary by
Mary Lalevee
May 5, 2011 19:33
13 yrs ago
French term
atténuation
French to English
Tech/Engineering
Photography/Imaging (& Graphic Arts)
This is in the terms of use of a website, which asks people to upload photos. The peoppe who upload photos have to agree to grant the website owners certain rights to the photos.
La présente autorisation couvre non seulement l’exploitation de ces photographies par tout procédé numérique actuel ou futur, pour une diffusion online, offline et/ou sur support papier, directement et/ou indirectement par XXX, ...., constituant des œuvres collectives, comprenant, sans que la liste soit limitative, texte, photographie, illustrations, vidéos.
En conséquence de quoi, et conformément aux dispositions relatives au droit de la propriété intellectuelle et du droit à l’image, vous autorisez XXX :
• à adapter ou faire adapter les photographies en terme de taille, définition, cadrage, atténuation, transparence ;
Does it mean something like "shading"?
La présente autorisation couvre non seulement l’exploitation de ces photographies par tout procédé numérique actuel ou futur, pour une diffusion online, offline et/ou sur support papier, directement et/ou indirectement par XXX, ...., constituant des œuvres collectives, comprenant, sans que la liste soit limitative, texte, photographie, illustrations, vidéos.
En conséquence de quoi, et conformément aux dispositions relatives au droit de la propriété intellectuelle et du droit à l’image, vous autorisez XXX :
• à adapter ou faire adapter les photographies en terme de taille, définition, cadrage, atténuation, transparence ;
Does it mean something like "shading"?
Proposed translations
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| 1 +3 | contrast / brightness |
Tony M
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| 4 | shading |
Cécile A.-C.
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| 4 | attenuation |
kashew
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| 3 | fading |
B D Finch
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Proposed translations
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contrast / brightness
I think that logically, this must be referring to the contrast and/or brightness of the image — how dark or light it is, or to what extent it is 'faded out' (attenué); for example, for use as a graphic element behind something else.
Can't say I have any specialist knowledge of this vocabulary, but it is the only thing that seems to me to make sense with the other elements in the list.
Can't say I have any specialist knowledge of this vocabulary, but it is the only thing that seems to me to make sense with the other elements in the list.
Peer comment(s):
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Loise
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Merci, Loise !
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SafeTex
: as in luminosité et contraste" in Microsoft's Paint program in French
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Thanks, SafeTex! I believe so...
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rkillings
: as well as gamma, RGB colour balance and saturation too.
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Thanks, R! Yes, indeed, though I doubt such detail is necessary / desirable in a document of this nature. ;-)
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Comment: "Thanks Tony, this does seem to be it."
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Cécile A.-C.
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shading
as you said...
Peer comment(s):
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Tony M
: I think that could have misledaing connotations, and suggest 'dégradé', for example.
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attenuation
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Example sentence:
The photographic attenuation values were calculated using the method described by Yates
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fading
Though fading is perhaps also covered under the previous "définition", it could perhaps also be specifically applied to fading the edges, as in vignetting.
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