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Adobe Photoshop CS 5

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. A command that saves the size of thumbnails - the position and visibility of panels - and the size of the Bridge window itself.






2. A new feature in CS5 that allows you to access the Bridge's photo organizing features.






3. Any information above and beyond the core image data - including the date the image was last saved - the copyright holder - and how the image was captured.






4. A new feature in Photoshop CS5 that allows you to fine-tune your mask by setting a prescribe radius for edge calculation.






5. The spot from which the healing brush samples information when repairing a dlaw in an image.






6. This command expands a selection to include additional contiguous colors that fall inside the magic wand's Tolerance range.






7. The two ingredients in color: The first is the tint - from red to magenta - and the second is the purity - from gray to vivid.






8. The clarity of the image formed by the lens element and captured by the camera - whether digital or film.






9. Font family - type style - size - leading - alignment - and a wealth of other options for modifying the appearance of live text.






10. Also known as a mask - this special channel selects white pixels and deselects black ones - allowing you to hide or reveal corresponding parts of your image.






11. A Photoshop plug-in that allows for the development of unprocessed native image files.






12. The center of a rotation or another transformation.






13. Cyan - magenta - and yellow - each of which absorbs light when printed on paper and mixes to form progressively darker colors.






14. A column of type created by dragging with the type tool - useful for setting long sentences or entire paragraphs.






15. An intricate command that lets you edit a selection using a series of slider bars and preview the results of those edits as you work.






16. A loadable file that describes a specific flavor of RGB or CMYK that is uniquely applicable to a display or print environment.






17. A mask created by selecting just the lightest areas of an image.






18. Use this tool to select free-form - straight-sided areas in an image.






19. This tool allows you to paint back information from a previous state saved in the History panel.






20. Operations such as Image Size and the Rotate Canvas commands that affect an entire image - including any and all layers






21. A Photoshop command that allows you to create masks based on a mathematical comparison of the luminance values in two of the color channels.






22. The best tool for manually adjusting the brightness and increasing the contrast of an image on a color-by-color basis.






23. An independent environment in Photoshop where you can squish and stretch pixels.






24. To change the physical dimensions of an image by reducing the number of pixels.






25. A camera's native format for which no on-board camera processing has occurred.






26. When working with this function - painting with black temporarily erases the pixels on a layer - painting with white makes the pixels visible again.






27. Choose this command to combine the contents of the active layer with the layer below it.






28. An option that spaces all lines of type in a selected layer by similar amounts to give the layer a more even - pleasing appearance.






29. The portion of the Bridge that contains thumbnail previews.






30. A command that allows you to rotate - resizem and rescale one layer independently of the rest of a composition.






31. Part of a path that is unaffected by control handles and is thus a direct path between two points.






32. Availabe exclusively inside the Bridge - this command lets you expand one or more images to fill the entire screen as well as zoom and navigate from the keyboard.






33. The boundaries of an image - as measured independently of the contents of the image itself.






34. A loose collection of features that modify the existing color or luminosity of a pixel without replacing its content.






35. A filter that mimics the functionality of Unsharp Mask by retaining areas of high contrast and sending low-contrast areas to gray.






36. The number of digits required to express a single pixel - which in turn determines the number of colors in an image.






37. The act of preparing and rendering an image for mass reproduction - usually as a CMYK document.






38. A specific kind of metadata saved by most modern digitial cameras that records the time and date a photograph was captured as well as various camera settings.






39. A Photoshop effect applied directly to an entire image or a selection.






40. Expressed as an exponent - this value multiplies the brightness of an image to lighten or darken midtones.






41. A lever-like device that allowed you to control the curve of a path through a smooth point.






42. A set of selection tools that allow you to draw simple geometric shapes.






43. Created by pressing Ctrl+G - this collection of layers appears as a folder icon in the Layers panel.






44. New to CS5 - this tool lets you quickly confirm a line that you want to designate as the new vertical or horizontal basis of your image.






45. This numerical value lets you adjust the sharpness of points in a star drawn with the polygon tool.






46. A command that lets you examine and save the descriptions - credits - and keywords assigned to one image so that you can apply them to others.






47. A new feature in CS5 that fills in selections automatically based on what Photoshop understands about surrounding pixels.






48. An option that turns a PDF document into an all-consuming slide show the moment you open it in the Adobe Reader utility.






49. A new panel in the Bridge that permits you to see a multi-image PDF document or Web gallery before saving it.






50. A means of cutting away the extraneous portions of an image to focus the viewer's attention on the subject of the photo.