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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. Adjusting for the predominant color of neutral white - usually off as the result of an uncorrected light source.






2. 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.






3. 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.






4. This tool lightens portions of an image as you paint - which makes it great for bringing out naturally shaded areas such as eyes.






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






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






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






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






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






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






11. A point along a path that joins two segments at a corner.






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






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






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






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






16. An image that is made up of composite pieces that can be manipulated independently.






17. The spot from which the healing brush samples information when repairing a dlaw in an image.






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






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






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






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






22. This command lets you scale an image on the page - determine the paper orientation - and adjust the color management settings before printing an image.






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






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






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






26. This numerical value lets you adjust the sharpness of points in a star drawn with the polygon tool.






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






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






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






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






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






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






33. When working with this function - painting with black temporarily erases the pixels on a layer - painting with white makes the pixels visible again.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






44. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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