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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 number of pixels that will print in a linear inch or millimeter of page space.






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






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






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






5. A command that automaticallly corrects the shadows and highlights of each color channel independently.






6. A modification to an image that permenantly changes the pixels to which it's applied.






7. This otherwise fairly useless tool is handy for finessing mask edges by smushing edge pixels in one direction or another.






8. A standalone application for opening and managing files that ships with all versions of Photoshop CS5.






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






10. This panel lets you scale - rotate - and even flip the source image as you paint it onto the destination - as well as preview the source as a translucent overlay.






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






12. A Bridge operation that stands portrait-style photographs upright and writes the results to metadata. You can perform the operation from the keyboard by pressing Ctrl and a bracket key [ ] .






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






14. Drag a folder that you use on a regular basis to this panel - and you'll never have to burrow through folders and subfolders to find your pictures again.






15. A command that allows you to reinstate a previous Liquify modification.






16. A special variety of layer that wraps the original content of an image inside a protective container - allowing pixel modifications to be made without damaging or changing the original contents.






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






18. An image that is made up of composite pieces that can be manipulated independently.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






26. The appearance of luminance aberrations - caused in HDR photos by an element moving or changing apperance between individual frames.






27. A filter with a massive dialog box that allows you to warp - bloat - pinch - stretch - and generally swirl around pixels.






28. A special kind of state in the History panel that remains available well after twenty operations.






29. 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.






30. A tool in Liquify that puffs out areas of an image.






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






32. A tool in Liquify that you use to suck the edges of an area inward.






33. Measured in f-stops - this Camera Raw option corrects the brightness of highlights.






34. A succession of duplicated objects - scaled - rotated - and otherwise transformed in equal increments.






35. The adjusted amount of horizontal space between two neighboring characters of type.






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






37. 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.






38. Effects like drop shadows and strokes that can be applied to specific parts of an image only.






39. An independent grayscale image that Photoshop colorizes and mixes with other such images to produce a full-color composite.






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






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






42. A tool that lets you adjust one region of an image independently of another inside Camera Raw.






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






44. By default centralized and sequestered - deep in the system level of your hard drive - this file stores transient information from the Bridge - such as sort order and high-resolution thumbnails.






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






46. A simple filter that averages the colors of neighboring pixels in sweeps defined by the radius value.






47. The degree to which professionally output halftone dots grow when they are absorbed by a sheet of printed paper.






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






49. A mask applied to protect parts of an image that you want to remain unaffected by the Liquify tools.






50. This tool darkens pixels as you paint over them.