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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. The name given to a pair of slider bars in the Layer Style dialog box that let you hide or reveal colors based on their luminosity levels.






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






3. An independent grayscale image that Photoshop colorizes and mixes with other such images to produce a full-color composite.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






14. 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.






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






16. 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.






17. A succession of duplicated objects - scaled - rotated - and otherwise transformed in equal increments.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. The difference between light and dark colors.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






33. Any information above and beyond the core image data - including the date the image was last saved - the copyright holder - and how the image was captured.






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






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






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






37. A command that automaticallly corrects the shadows and highlights of each color channel independently.






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






39. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






46. This numerical value lets you adjust the sharpness of points in a star drawn with the polygon tool.






47. A set of tools that permit you to clone elements from one portion or state of an image to another.






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






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






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