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Glossary entry

German term or phrase:

Bildbalken

English translation:

image banner

Added to glossary by Robert Schlarb
Feb 27, 2008 20:34
16 yrs ago
German term

Bildbalken

German to English Tech/Engineering Photography/Imaging (& Graphic Arts) Layout design
This is the bar or stripe used to superimpose a caption or lettering over an image. It may be solid but is often transparent to some degree, revealing the image beneath. Any idea what the proper team in English is?
Proposed translations (English)
4 image banner
3 +1 caption bar
Change log

Feb 28, 2008 11:43: Steffen Walter changed "Field" from "Art/Literary" to "Tech/Engineering"

Discussion

David Williams Feb 28, 2008:
OK :) As I said, it seems to be a different meaning, given the definition above, but I've just chekced the HDM Handbuch der Printmedien, and Bildbalken isn't in the Index there, so I suspect we are talking about an image banner.
Ken Cox Feb 28, 2008:
That was just a slight murmur ;-)
David Williams Feb 28, 2008:
Hi Robert, sure. I just didn't want to steal Ken's thunder, as he was the first one to suggest banner. Cheers, David
Robert Schlarb (asker) Feb 28, 2008:
to d_williams I just noticed that we worked together on a project in the past, David.
In any case, you need to post your answer if you are interested in collecting kudoz points.
David Williams Feb 28, 2008:
PS. Sorry about the typos!
David Williams Feb 28, 2008:
As I said, tehy may well not co-exist on the same pages, so separate image searchers are more fruitful.
David Williams Feb 28, 2008:
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.lingolino....
David Williams Feb 28, 2008:
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://dup-agency.com...
David Williams Feb 28, 2008:
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.cmemeeting...
David Williams Feb 28, 2008:
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://lh3.google.com...
David Williams Feb 28, 2008:
Treu taht is seems strange, but they needn't necessarily be used together to mean the same thing. If you do a google image search for the two terms, you'll find similar results, e.g.:
Ken Cox Feb 28, 2008:
FWIW, I get two *image* hits for the combination of Bildbalken and banner, but nothing relevant with text searching.
Robert Schlarb (asker) Feb 28, 2008:
to d_williams Strange that there is not a single google hit for the combination "bildbalken image-banner". And in German "Banner" is commonly used to refer to this sort of object on web pages.
David Williams Feb 28, 2008:
Are you sure? I would suggest that banner pre-dates the web, and the web lifted such terminology from conventional publishing/printing. Can't say for certain though.
Robert Schlarb (asker) Feb 28, 2008:
The context is professional graphic design, i.e. originally for printed material. The suggestion of "banner" is specific to the web. Since the term "Bildbalken" is apparently rooted in the conventional trade, it may well be somewhat outdated.
Ken Cox Feb 27, 2008:
This may also be idiosyncratic usage, since the vast majority of the google image hits I see for Bildbalken are banners.
David Williams Feb 27, 2008:
This would quite possibly depend on which software you are using, if you're looking for the term used in a specific software package such as Photoshop, the Gimp or Corel PhotoPaint.

Proposed translations

13 hrs
Selected

image banner

An image banner would be the same as a Bildbalken in the sense of a "Balken mit Bildern", although this doesn't quite tally with your definition, which sounds more like a text layer (e.g. in Photoshop).

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Note added at 4 days (2008-03-03 08:19:50 GMT) Post-grading
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My pleasure!
Reference:

http://images.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&q=%22image+banner%22

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=%22bildbalken%22&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Ohne Fleiß kein Preis! Through your dedicated research you have succeeded in convincing me. Thanks David"
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28 mins

caption bar

When you play a media clip in Microsoft Windows Media Player 10, the caption bar appears with the caption text.
Peer comment(s):
agree LP Schumacher
11 hrs
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