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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.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

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. When one color pervades an image to a degree that is unpleasant or unrealistic.






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






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






4. A Photoshop effect applied directly to an entire image or a selection.






5. Choose this command to combine the contents of the active layer with the layer below it.






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






7. 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.






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






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






10. 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 [ ] .






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






21. The clarity of the image formed by the lens element and captured by the camera - whether digital or film.






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






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






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






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






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






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






28. 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.






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






30. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






38. Commands from the Filter menu or the Adjustments panel that can be applied nondestructively to a smart object.






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






40. 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.






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






42. The center of a rotation or another transformation.






43. The difference between light and dark colors.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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