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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






9. 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.






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






11. The center of a rotation or another transformation.






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






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






14. 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.






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






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






17. The difference between light and dark colors.






18. A filter with a massive dialog box that allows you to warp - bloat - pinch - stretch - and generally swirl around pixels.






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






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






21. A file that contains the instructions for modifications made to a raw file.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






30. A Photoshop command that allows you to create masks based on a mathematical comparison of the luminance values in two of the color channels.






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






32. 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.






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






34. 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.






35. An independent environment in Photoshop where you can squish and stretch pixels.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






44. This command lets you scale an image on the page - determine the paper orientation - and adjust the color management settings before printing an image.






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






46. A printing process that outputs each of the CMYK color channels to independent plates so that they can be loaded with different inks.






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






48. 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.






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






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