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






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






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






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






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






6. An option that spaces all lines of type in a selected layer by similar amounts to give the layer a more even - pleasing appearance.






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






8. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






14. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






20. Created by pressing Ctrl+G - this collection of layers appears as a folder icon in the Layers panel.






21. 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.






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






23. 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.






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






25. 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.






26. A loadable file that describes a specific flavor of RGB or CMYK that is uniquely applicable to a display or print environment.






27. 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.






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






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






30. 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.






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






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






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






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






35. 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.






36. A tool that allows you to distort a subject by changing the relationship between set points.






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






38. 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 [ ] .






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






40. Analogous to the magic wand's Tolerance setting - this feature spreads a Color Range selection out to neighboring color values beyond those specifically chosen.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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