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






2. This viewing mode allows you to quickly see the mask created by a selection and assess the edges automatically.






3. The state of a layered composition at a certain point in time - replete with visibility - vertical and horizontal positioning - blending options - and layer styles.






4. The command that defines the RGB or CMYK color spaces employed by Photoshop.






5. This command lets you darken highlights and lighten shadows - just what you need when correcting flash photos.






6. An option that uses the contents of the active layer to cut holes in the layers beneath it.






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






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






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






10. Mathematically defined text and shapes that can be scaled or otherwise transformed without any degradation in quality.






11. A means for cropping the contents of a group of layers to the boundaries of a layer beneath them.






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






13. A tool in Liquify that allows you to spin an area around a center point.






14. 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.






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






16. A variety of glossy or matte-finished paper that holds lots of ink - allowing you to print extremely high-resolution images.






17. A set of dotted lines that indicate the borders of a selected region - also known as "marching ants".






18. A special kind of text layer in which text is attached to a path outline to create a line of type that flows along a curve.






19. A bar graph representation of all brightness values and their distribution in an image.






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






21. Commands from the Filter menu or the Adjustments panel that can be applied nondestructively to a smart object.






22. 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.






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






24. The three brightness ranges that you can edit independently using the Color Balance adn Levels commands.






25. This advanced compositing funtion is capable of stretching low-contrast areas of an image without affecting high-contrast areas.






26. Brush-based tools that allow you to paint lines and fill shapes with the foreground color.






27. The lightness or darkness of a group of colors.






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






29. Indicators along a gradient preview that designate the colors at either end.






30. The best means for calculating text spacing - which permits Photoshop to move a character by a fraction of a pixel.






31. A single image that represents a view wider than a traditional camera lens can capture.






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






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






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






35. This dialog box bends and distorts live text to create wavy - bulging - and perspective effects.






36. Click with this tool to select regions of color inside an image.






37. Outlines described by vectors that contain no pixel information by can be used to control the pixels within their boundaries.






38. A setting in the options bar that determines how many colors the magic wand selects at a time - as measured in luminosity values.






39. A point along a path that joins two segments at a corner.






40. 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.






41. This advancement on the magic wand tool allows you to select given colors in your image and turn them into a selection outline.






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






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






44. A command that allows you to turn text into a vector-based shape.






45. Photoshop's tool that allows you to align and blend multiple frames.






46. The arrangement of layers in a composition - from front to back - which you can adjust by pressing Ctrl with the bracket keys [ ].






47. 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.






48. A command that saves the size of thumbnails - the position and visibility of panels - and the size of the Bridge window itself.






49. Decreases or increases the saturation of an image - depending on the Mode setting in the options bar.






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