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






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






3. This command lets you darken highlights and lighten shadows - just what you need when correcting flash photos.






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






5. The one command that lets you pinpoint a specific color in an image and make it lighter or darker; best suited to reducing contrast.






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






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






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






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






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






11. 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.






12. A new feature in Photoshop CS5 that allows you to fine-tune your mask by setting a prescribe radius for edge calculation.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






23. A command that lets you examine and save the descriptions - credits - and keywords assigned to one image so that you can apply them to others.






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






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






26. This advancement on the magic wand tool allows you to select given colors in your image and turn them into a selection outline.






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






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






29. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






38. The lightness or darkness of a group of colors.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






50. Analogous to the magic wand's Tolerance setting - this feature spreads a Color Range selection out to neighboring color values beyond those specifically chosen.