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






2. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






10. This advancement on the magic wand tool allows you to select given colors in your image and turn them into a selection outline.






11. An interpolation setting that results in crisp edge transitions - perfect when the details in your image are impeccable and you want to preserve every nuance.






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






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






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






15. The center of a rotation or another transformation.






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






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






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






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






20. The difference between light and dark colors.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






28. This command expands a selection to include additional contiguous colors that fall inside the magic wand's Tolerance range.






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






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






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






32. 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.






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






34. 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.






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






36. 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.






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






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






39. This tool lightens portions of an image as you paint - which makes it great for bringing out naturally shaded areas such as eyes.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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