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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 intricate command that lets you edit a selection using a series of slider bars and preview the results of those edits as you work.






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






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






4. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






10. A tool that allows you to distort a subject by changing the relationship between set points.






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






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






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






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






15. A mask created by attaching one layer to another to limit the effects of the first layer to just the layer beneath.






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






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






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






19. 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.






20. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






27. 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 [ ] .






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






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






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






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






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






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






34. The difference between light and dark colors.






35. A set of dotted lines that indicate the borders of a selected region - also known as "marching ants".






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






37. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






43. Indicators along a gradient preview that designate the colors at either end.






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






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






46. 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.






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






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






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






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