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






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






3. A method of layer transformation that allows you to move points on a mesh to reshape and stretch an image.






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






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






6. A special kind of state in the History panel that remains available well after twenty operations.






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






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






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






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






11. A feature of the Refine Edge command that tells Photoshop to adjust the radius based on the smooth or jagged nature of your mask.






12. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






23. This feature of the History panel lets you bookmark a specific state in your work - allowing you to restore it later.






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






25. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. A command that allows you to reinstate a previous Liquify modification.






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






41. A command that allows you to turn text into a vector-based shape.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






49. 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.






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