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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. Cyan - magenta - and yellow - each of which absorbs light when printed on paper and mixes to form progressively darker colors.






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






3. 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.






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






5. The difference between light and dark colors.






6. Expressed as an exponent - this value multiplies the brightness of an image to lighten or darken midtones.






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






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






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






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






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






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






13. The center of a rotation or another transformation.






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






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






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






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






18. 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.






19. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






25. 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.






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






27. This command lets you darken highlights and lighten shadows - just what you need when correcting flash photos.






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






29. 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.






30. A setting in the options bar that determines how many colors the magic wand selects at a time - as measured in luminosity values.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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