Foreground
noun
The part of a view that is nearest to the observer, especially in a picture or photograph.
The photographer has skillfully placed the couple in the foreground of the photo.
Often appears as...
- in the foreground
- move to the foreground
verb
To make something the most important or visible thing.
The documentary foregrounds the problems of the homeless in the city.
Often appears as...
- foreground the issues
- foreground the concerns
noun
In computer graphics, the part of a scene or picture that appears closest to the viewer.
In this video game, the character is constantly in the foreground.
Often appears as...
- foreground element
- foreground processing
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Technical
noun
The part of a view that is nearest to the observer, especially in a picture or photograph.
The photographer has skillfully placed the couple in the foreground of the photo.
Often appears as...
- in the foreground
- move to the foreground
verb
To make something the most important or visible thing.
The documentary foregrounds the problems of the homeless in the city.
Often appears as...
- foreground the issues
- foreground the concerns
noun
In computer graphics, the part of a scene or picture that appears closest to the viewer.
In this video game, the character is constantly in the foreground.
Often appears as...
- foreground element
- foreground processing
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Importance
Foreground elements draw the viewer's attention and set the visual focus of the image.
The vibrant flowers in the foreground lead our eyes through the landscape.
Pro Tip 2/3Perspective Clues
Foreground helps indicate depth, showing what's close and what's far away.
In the painting, mountains in the background fade behind the sharply detailed foreground trees.
Pro Tip 3/3Subject Significance
Putting something in the foreground can suggest it is important in the scene's context.
The fallen soldier's helmet was placed in the foreground to symbolize loss.
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Importance
Foreground elements draw the viewer's attention and set the visual focus of the image.
The vibrant flowers in the foreground lead our eyes through the landscape.
Pro Tip 2/3Perspective Clues
Foreground helps indicate depth, showing what's close and what's far away.
In the painting, mountains in the background fade behind the sharply detailed foreground trees.
Pro Tip 3/3Subject Significance
Putting something in the foreground can suggest it is important in the scene's context.
The fallen soldier's helmet was placed in the foreground to symbolize loss.
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Importance
Foreground elements draw the viewer's attention and set the visual focus of the image.
The vibrant flowers in the foreground lead our eyes through the landscape.
Pro Tip 2/3Perspective Clues
Foreground helps indicate depth, showing what's close and what's far away.
In the painting, mountains in the background fade behind the sharply detailed foreground trees.
Pro Tip 3/3Subject Significance
Putting something in the foreground can suggest it is important in the scene's context.
The fallen soldier's helmet was placed in the foreground to symbolize loss.
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Julian Treasure: Shh!...
Have a foreground, a background, all in beautiful proportion. It's fun to get into designing with sound. If you can't do it yourself, get a professional to do it for you. Sound design is the future, and I think it's the way we're going to change the way the world sounds. I'm going to just run quickly through eight modalities,
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Greg Asner: Ecology from...
and on other species. And let me tell you, these types of dynamics really play out on the landscape. In the foreground is an area with lots of fire and lots of wide open savanna in blue, and just a few trees. As we cross this fence line, now we're getting into an area that has had protection from fire and zero
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Mac Barnett: Why a good...
And even that supposedly honest moment, I would argue, is in service of the lie, but it's supposed to foreground the artificiality of the fiction. For me, I kind of prefer the opposite. If I'm going to break down the fourth wall, I want fiction to escape and come into the real world.
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Beware conflicts of...
So we decided not to throw the guy out and to rerun the experiment. But you know, these stories, and lots of other experiments that we've done on conflicts of interest, basically kind of bring two points to the foreground for me. The first one is that in life we encounter many people
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How volumetric video...
and enable us to emerge inside afterwards again. Now, in this setup, there's no more foreground or background or a camera placed in space but hundreds of sensors capturing the light and capturing the motion from all the possible directions. With the new technological advancements,
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Lemn Sissay: A child of...
and dustbinmen and hairdressers, all who were looked after children, fostered, adopted or orphaned, and many of them grow into their adult lives in fear of speaking of their background, as if it may somehow weaken their standing in the foreground,
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Hidden Alaska PIPE National...
cowboy pilot and Alaska has a lot of cowboy pilots so I said well you know let's go do some aerials and I'm we're flying around I say you know and be really neat if I could get you you know in the foreground oh no problem he goes so he lands that
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Weaving narratives in...
up an image of a painting is a landscape with figures semi dressed drinking wine there was a nude woman in the in the lower foreground and on the hillside in the back there was a figure of the mythological god Bacchus and he said
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Photosynth 2: Exploring...
and the thing that you might notice as I rotate is that it's a three-dimensional panorama the branches in the foreground move with parallax they move at different speeds from from the background and in fact even the depth of
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Aparna Rao: High-tech...
But they react to foreground sounds. You'll hear that in a second. So we worked very hard to make them as lifelike as possible. So each pygmy has its own behavior, psyche,
Video examples
Julian Treasure: Shh!...
Have a foreground, a background, all in beautiful proportion. It's fun to get into designing with sound. If you can't do it yourself, get a professional to do it for you. Sound design is the future, and I think it's the way we're going to change the way the world sounds. I'm going to just run quickly through eight modalities,
Video examples
Greg Asner: Ecology from...
and on other species. And let me tell you, these types of dynamics really play out on the landscape. In the foreground is an area with lots of fire and lots of wide open savanna in blue, and just a few trees. As we cross this fence line, now we're getting into an area that has had protection from fire and zero
Video examples
Mac Barnett: Why a good...
And even that supposedly honest moment, I would argue, is in service of the lie, but it's supposed to foreground the artificiality of the fiction. For me, I kind of prefer the opposite. If I'm going to break down the fourth wall, I want fiction to escape and come into the real world.
Video examples
Beware conflicts of...
So we decided not to throw the guy out and to rerun the experiment. But you know, these stories, and lots of other experiments that we've done on conflicts of interest, basically kind of bring two points to the foreground for me. The first one is that in life we encounter many people
Video examples
How volumetric video...
and enable us to emerge inside afterwards again. Now, in this setup, there's no more foreground or background or a camera placed in space but hundreds of sensors capturing the light and capturing the motion from all the possible directions. With the new technological advancements,
Video examples
Lemn Sissay: A child of...
and dustbinmen and hairdressers, all who were looked after children, fostered, adopted or orphaned, and many of them grow into their adult lives in fear of speaking of their background, as if it may somehow weaken their standing in the foreground,
Video examples
Hidden Alaska PIPE National...
cowboy pilot and Alaska has a lot of cowboy pilots so I said well you know let's go do some aerials and I'm we're flying around I say you know and be really neat if I could get you you know in the foreground oh no problem he goes so he lands that
Video examples
Weaving narratives in...
up an image of a painting is a landscape with figures semi dressed drinking wine there was a nude woman in the in the lower foreground and on the hillside in the back there was a figure of the mythological god Bacchus and he said
Video examples
Photosynth 2: Exploring...
and the thing that you might notice as I rotate is that it's a three-dimensional panorama the branches in the foreground move with parallax they move at different speeds from from the background and in fact even the depth of
Video examples
Aparna Rao: High-tech...
But they react to foreground sounds. You'll hear that in a second. So we worked very hard to make them as lifelike as possible. So each pygmy has its own behavior, psyche,
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Alfonso Cuaron
Mexican Director
Most people just half-watch TV. They watch TV while they are doing many other things in the environment of their home. So, what they are doing goes through their ears as much as through their eyes. In television, the narrative and characters are in the foreground of everything, because you are watching TV as you do other stuff.
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Jess Row
American Novelist
Disguising your own origins is a deeply American impulse, but that doesn't make it any less compromising. The way I live my life is to try to foreground the tensions and paradoxes of being a white person who's interested in racial justice and reconciliation, rather than disguise or obliterate them.
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Niko Kovac
Croatian Athlete
Of course, the attacking players get the attention because they score the goals, score nice goals, and those are the moments that remain in memory. But I wish that other players who are not in the foreground, who still perform well for their club or association, get more recognition.
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Constantin Stanislavski
Russian Actor
We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes.
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Keanu Reeves
Canadian Actor
I'm not a photographer, so I didn't get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested in the camera and the lenses. That's the world that I'm moving in, in terms of acting and giving a performance.
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Hope Jahren
American Scientist
I think we get used to not seeing the green things around us. I think they become the backdrop of our lives. And I think you actively have to ask somebody to request that they put that in the foreground.
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Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Hungarian Scientist
Investigations during the last few decades have brought hydrogen instead of carbon, and instead of CO2 water, the mother of all life, into the foreground.
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Ruth J. Simmons
American Educator
It's very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed.
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Geoffrey Rush
Australian Actor
It's their story, and I got to be the guy in the back while they were in the foreground.
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Edith Wharton
American Author
The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
Quote examples
Alfonso Cuaron
Mexican Director
Most people just half-watch TV. They watch TV while they are doing many other things in the environment of their home. So, what they are doing goes through their ears as much as through their eyes. In television, the narrative and characters are in the foreground of everything, because you are watching TV as you do other stuff.
Quote examples
Jess Row
American Novelist
Disguising your own origins is a deeply American impulse, but that doesn't make it any less compromising. The way I live my life is to try to foreground the tensions and paradoxes of being a white person who's interested in racial justice and reconciliation, rather than disguise or obliterate them.
Quote examples
Niko Kovac
Croatian Athlete
Of course, the attacking players get the attention because they score the goals, score nice goals, and those are the moments that remain in memory. But I wish that other players who are not in the foreground, who still perform well for their club or association, get more recognition.
Quote examples
Constantin Stanislavski
Russian Actor
We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes.
Quote examples
Keanu Reeves
Canadian Actor
I'm not a photographer, so I didn't get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested in the camera and the lenses. That's the world that I'm moving in, in terms of acting and giving a performance.
Quote examples
Hope Jahren
American Scientist
I think we get used to not seeing the green things around us. I think they become the backdrop of our lives. And I think you actively have to ask somebody to request that they put that in the foreground.
Quote examples
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Hungarian Scientist
Investigations during the last few decades have brought hydrogen instead of carbon, and instead of CO2 water, the mother of all life, into the foreground.
Quote examples
Ruth J. Simmons
American Educator
It's very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed.
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Geoffrey Rush
Australian Actor
It's their story, and I got to be the guy in the back while they were in the foreground.
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Edith Wharton
American Author
The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
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