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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.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

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






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






3. 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.






4. Mathematically defined text and shapes that can be scaled or otherwise transformed without any degradation in quality.






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






6. Choose this command to combine the contents of the active layer with the layer below it.






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






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






9. Expressed as an exponent - this value multiplies the brightness of an image to lighten or darken midtones.






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






11. A standalone application for opening and managing files that ships with all versions of Photoshop CS5.






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






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






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






15. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






26. 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 [ ] .






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






47. To change the physical dimensions of an image by reducing the number of pixels.






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






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






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