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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






10. When working with this function - painting with black temporarily erases the pixels on a layer - painting with white makes the pixels visible again.






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






12. A feature of the Refine Edge command that tells Photoshop to adjust the radius based on the smooth or jagged nature of your mask.






13. The center of a rotation or another transformation.






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






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






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






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






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






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






21. Availabe exclusively inside the Bridge - this command lets you expand one or more images to fill the entire screen as well as zoom and navigate from the keyboard.






22. 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.






23. This selection tool can actually sense the edge of an object and automatically trace it.






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






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






26. Mathematically defined text and shapes that can be scaled or otherwise transformed without any degradation in quality.






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






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






29. A new panel in the Bridge that permits you to see a multi-image PDF document or Web gallery before saving it.






30. 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 [ ] .






31. Also known as a mask - this special channel selects white pixels and deselects black ones - allowing you to hide or reveal corresponding parts of your image.






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






33. 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.






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






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






36. 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.






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






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






39. New to CS5 - this tool lets you quickly confirm a line that you want to designate as the new vertical or horizontal basis of your image.






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






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






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






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






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






45. 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.






46. 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.






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






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






49. An option that turns a PDF document into an all-consuming slide show the moment you open it in the Adobe Reader utility.






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