Test your basic knowledge |

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 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.






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






3. A text layer that has no maximum column width and aligns to the point at which you clicked with the type tool.






4. Click inside the Preview panel to access this feature - which allows you to zoom an image's detail from 100 to 800 percent.






5. A set of tools that permit you to clone elements from one portion or state of an image to another.






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






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






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






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






10. The one command that lets you pinpoint a specific color in an image and make it lighter or darker; best suited to reducing contrast.






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






12. The difference between light and dark colors.






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






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






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






16. This phenomenon refers to the existence of extra information on layers that extend beyond the visible part of the document.






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






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






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






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






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






22. 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 [ ] .






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






24. An anchor point along a path that has two control handles to allow for creating a continuous - even arc.






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






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






27. 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.






28. When one color pervades an image to a degree that is unpleasant or unrealistic.






29. An effect that applies a range of colors based on the lightest and darkest areas of an image.






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






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






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






33. The most popular method for transferring dark pixels from the Cyan - Magenta - and Yellow channels to the Black channel - thus producing rich - volumetric shadows.






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






35. A command used to assign document names - sequence numbers - and more to multiple image files at a time.






36. The name given to a pair of slider bars in the Layer Style dialog box that let you hide or reveal colors based on their luminosity levels.






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






38. The thickness of the effect applied by a filter - often expressed as a softly tapering halo.






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






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






41. 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.






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






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






44. Accessible by pressing Ctrl - this tool permits you to move selected pixels - even between images.






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






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






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






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






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






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