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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






10. A tool in Liquify that allows you to spin an area around a center point.






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






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






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






14. 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.






15. Measured in f-stops - this Camera Raw option corrects the brightness of highlights.






16. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






22. The difference between light and dark colors.






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






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






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






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






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






28. A means for cropping the contents of a group of layers to the boundaries of a layer beneath them.






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






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






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






32. 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.






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






34. 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.






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






36. 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.






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






38. This dialog box bends and distorts live text to create wavy - bulging - and perspective effects.






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






40. 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.






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






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






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






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






45. The center of a rotation or another transformation.






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






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






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






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






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