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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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1. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






11. A new panel in the Bridge that permits you to see a multi-image PDF document or Web gallery before saving it.






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






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






14. A camera's native format for which no on-board camera processing has occurred.






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






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






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






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






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






20. 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.






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






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






23. The best means for calculating text spacing - which permits Photoshop to move a character by a fraction of a pixel.






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






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






26. The center of a rotation or another transformation.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. 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.






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






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






43. Digital photographs and scanned artwork composed exclusively of colored pixels.






44. A tool in Liquify that you use to suck the edges of an area inward.






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






46. The difference between light and dark colors.






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






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






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






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