Test your basic knowledge |

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. 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.






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






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






4. The difference between light and dark colors.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






12. A command that allows you to reinstate a previous Liquify modification.






13. This tool lightens portions of an image as you paint - which makes it great for bringing out naturally shaded areas such as eyes.






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






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






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






17. An effect that applies a range of colors based on the lightest and darkest areas of an image.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






28. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






35. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






41. A tool that lets you adjust one region of an image independently of another inside Camera Raw.






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






43. Created by pressing Ctrl+G - this collection of layers appears as a folder icon in the Layers panel.






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






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






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






47. Any information above and beyond the core image data - including the date the image was last saved - the copyright holder - and how the image was captured.






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






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






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