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






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






3. A single image that represents a view wider than a traditional camera lens can capture.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






15. 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.






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






17. 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.






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






19. A means of cutting away the extraneous portions of an image to focus the viewer's attention on the subject of the photo.






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






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






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






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






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






25. The relationship between the width and the height of an image.






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






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






28. 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.






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






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






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






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






33. A standalone application for opening and managing files that ships with all versions of Photoshop CS5.






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






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






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






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






38. When working with this function - painting with black temporarily erases the pixels on a layer - painting with white makes the pixels visible again.






39. 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.






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






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






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






43. The difference between light and dark colors.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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