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.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

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






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






3. 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.






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






5. 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.






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






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






8. Digital photographs and scanned artwork composed exclusively of colored pixels.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






31. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. 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.






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






45. Adjusting for the predominant color of neutral white - usually off as the result of an uncorrected light source.






46. 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.






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






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






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






50. This tool lets you measure angles and distances in Photoshop - as well as gives you access to the Straighten button.