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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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1. Indicators along a gradient preview that designate the colors at either end.






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






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






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






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






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






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






8. 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.






9. The center of a rotation or another transformation.






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






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






12. An interpolation setting that results in crisp edge transitions - perfect when the details in your image are impeccable and you want to preserve every nuance.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






26. Accessible by pressing Ctrl - this tool permits you to move selected pixels - even between images.






27. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. A slight softening effect applied most commonly to selection outlines to simulate smooth transitions.






40. 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 [ ] .






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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