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






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






3. 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.






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






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






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






7. A command used to assign document names - sequence numbers - and more to multiple image files at a time.






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






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






10. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






16. This command lets you scale an image on the page - determine the paper orientation - and adjust the color management settings before printing an image.






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






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






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






20. A loadable file that describes a specific flavor of RGB or CMYK that is uniquely applicable to a display or print environment.






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






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






23. The best means for calculating text spacing - which permits Photoshop to move a character by a fraction of a pixel.






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






25. Photoshop's tool that allows you to align and blend multiple frames.






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






27. The best tool for manually adjusting the brightness and increasing the contrast of an image on a color-by-color basis.






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






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






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






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






32. This selection tool can actually sense the edge of an object and automatically trace it.






33. This viewing mode allows you to quickly see the mask created by a selection and assess the edges automatically.






34. A mask applied to protect parts of an image that you want to remain unaffected by the Liquify tools.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






46. Cyan - magenta - and yellow - each of which absorbs light when printed on paper and mixes to form progressively darker colors.






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






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






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






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