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






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






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






4. The state of a layered composition at a certain point in time - replete with visibility - vertical and horizontal positioning - blending options - and layer styles.






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






6. A set of tools that permit you to clone elements from one portion or state of an image to another.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. 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.






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






22. 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.






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






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






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






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






27. 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.






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






29. An independent grayscale image that Photoshop colorizes and mixes with other such images to produce a full-color composite.






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






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






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






33. 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.






34. 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.






35. 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.






36. A printing process that outputs each of the CMYK color channels to independent plates so that they can be loaded with different inks.






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






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






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






40. A lever-like device that allowed you to control the curve of a path through a smooth point.






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






42. A photographic compilation that allows for the combination of luminance data from different exposure values.






43. 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 [ ] .






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






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






46. The most popular method for transferring dark pixels from the Cyan - Magenta - and Yellow channels to the Black channel - thus producing rich - volumetric shadows.






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






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






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






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