Test your basic knowledge |

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






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






3. This tool lets you preview the proper angle for a crooked image before you crop it.






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






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






6. 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.






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






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






9. 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 [ ] .






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






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






12. This viewing mode allows you to quickly see the mask created by a selection and assess the edges automatically.






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






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






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






16. The number of pixels that will print in a linear inch or millimeter of page space.






17. The act of preparing and rendering an image for mass reproduction - usually as a CMYK document.






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






19. 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.






20. 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.






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






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






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






24. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






30. Drag a folder that you use on a regular basis to this panel - and you'll never have to burrow through folders and subfolders to find your pictures again.






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






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






33. A loose collection of features that modify the existing color or luminosity of a pixel without replacing its content.






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






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






36. A tool in Liquify that you use to suck the edges of an area inward.






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. The center of a rotation or another transformation.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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