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






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






3. 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.






4. The command that defines the RGB or CMYK color spaces employed by Photoshop.






5. Effects like drop shadows and strokes that can be applied to specific parts of an image only.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. An interpolation setting that results in crisp edge transitions - perfect when the details in your image are impeccable and you want to preserve every nuance.






21. A set of selection tools that allow you to draw simple geometric shapes.






22. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






35. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






41. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






48. 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.






49. 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.






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