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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. 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.






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






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






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






5. The thickness of the effect applied by a filter - often expressed as a softly tapering halo.






6. Accessible by pressing Ctrl - this tool permits you to move selected pixels - even between images.






7. 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.






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






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






10. A new feature in Photoshop CS5 that allows you to fine-tune your mask by setting a prescribe radius for edge calculation.






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






12. 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.






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






14. Photoshop's tool that allows you to align and blend multiple frames.






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






16. An anchor point along a path that has two control handles to allow for creating a continuous - even arc.






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






18. 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.






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






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






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






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






23. 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 [ ] .






24. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






30. 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.






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






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






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






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






35. The difference between light and dark colors.






36. The one command that lets you pinpoint a specific color in an image and make it lighter or darker; best suited to reducing contrast.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






45. 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.






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






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






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






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






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