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






2. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






11. A standalone application for opening and managing files that ships with all versions of Photoshop CS5.






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






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






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






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






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






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






18. A special kind of text layer in which text is attached to a path outline to create a line of type that flows along a curve.






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






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






21. An option that spaces all lines of type in a selected layer by similar amounts to give the layer a more even - pleasing appearance.






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






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






24. 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 [ ] .






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






32. 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.






33. The center of a rotation or another transformation.






34. The number of pixels that will print in a linear inch or millimeter of page space.






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






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






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






38. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






45. Mathematically defined text and shapes that can be scaled or otherwise transformed without any degradation in quality.






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






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






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






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






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