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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






9. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






16. 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.






17. 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.






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






19. The state of a layered composition at a certain point in time - replete with visibility - vertical and horizontal positioning - blending options - and layer styles.






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






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






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






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






24. A command that saves the size of thumbnails - the position and visibility of panels - and the size of the Bridge window itself.






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






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






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






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






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






30. Mathematically defined text and shapes that can be scaled or otherwise transformed without any degradation in quality.






31. A photographic compilation that allows for the combination of luminance data from different exposure values.






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






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






34. A tool in Liquify that puffs out areas of an image.






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






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






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






38. A specific kind of metadata saved by most modern digitial cameras that records the time and date a photograph was captured as well as various camera settings.






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






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






41. 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 [ ] .






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






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






44. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






50. Set points in the puppet warp that serve as fixed points and points of stretching.