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






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






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






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






5. A filter that mimics the functionality of Unsharp Mask by retaining areas of high contrast and sending low-contrast areas to gray.






6. 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.






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






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






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






10. Set points in the puppet warp that serve as fixed points and points of stretching.






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






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






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






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






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






16. An anchor point along a path that has two control handles to allow for creating a continuous - even arc.






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






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






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






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






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






22. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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. 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 [ ] .






33. A new feature in CS5 that fills in selections automatically based on what Photoshop understands about surrounding pixels.






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






35. An image that is made up of composite pieces that can be manipulated independently.






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






37. The center of a rotation or another transformation.






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






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






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






41. The two ingredients in color: The first is the tint - from red to magenta - and the second is the purity - from gray to vivid.






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






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






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






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






46. Expressed as an exponent - this value multiplies the brightness of an image to lighten or darken midtones.






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






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






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






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