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






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






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






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






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






6. 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.






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






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






9. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






26. The one command that lets you pinpoint a specific color in an image and make it lighter or darker; best suited to reducing contrast.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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