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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 lightness or darkness of a group of colors.






2. This command lets you scale an image on the page - determine the paper orientation - and adjust the color management settings before printing an image.






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






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






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






6. This feature of the History panel lets you bookmark a specific state in your work - allowing you to restore it later.






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






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






9. A mask created by attaching one layer to another to limit the effects of the first layer to just the layer beneath.






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






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






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






13. The relationship between the width and the height of an image.






14. The output that occurs before a document is loaded onto a professional printing press for mass reproduction.






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






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






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






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






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






20. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






33. Set points in the puppet warp that serve as fixed points and points of stretching.






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






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






36. The center of a rotation or another transformation.






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






38. The difference between light and dark colors.






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






40. A slight softening effect applied most commonly to selection outlines to simulate smooth transitions.






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






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






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






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






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






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






47. Removing softness in a photograph by increasing edge contrast.






48. A method of layer transformation that allows you to move points on a mesh to reshape and stretch an image.






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






50. A varied set of Photoshop commands that apply effects to an entire image.