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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






19. This panel lets you scale - rotate - and even flip the source image as you paint it onto the destination - as well as preview the source as a translucent overlay.






20. The difference between light and dark colors.






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






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






23. Analogous to the magic wand's Tolerance setting - this feature spreads a Color Range selection out to neighboring color values beyond those specifically chosen.






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






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






26. Effects like drop shadows and strokes that can be applied to specific parts of an image only.






27. Brush-based tools that allow you to paint lines and fill shapes with the foreground color.






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






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






30. This tool allows you to paint back information from a previous state saved in the History panel.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. 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.






41. A file that contains the instructions for modifications made to a raw file.






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






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






44. The center of a rotation or another transformation.






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






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






47. This phenomenon refers to the existence of extra information on layers that extend beyond the visible part of the document.






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






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






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