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






2. Click inside the Preview panel to access this feature - which allows you to zoom an image's detail from 100 to 800 percent.






3. 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.






4. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






11. The difference between light and dark colors.






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






13. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






19. Also known as a mask - this special channel selects white pixels and deselects black ones - allowing you to hide or reveal corresponding parts of your image.






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






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






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






23. An effect that applies a range of colors based on the lightest and darkest areas of an image.






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






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






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






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






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






29. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






37. Operations such as Image Size and the Rotate Canvas commands that affect an entire image - including any and all layers






38. 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 [ ] .






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






49. 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.






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