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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. 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.






2. The center of a rotation or another transformation.






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






4. The difference between light and dark colors.






5. The appearance of luminance aberrations - caused in HDR photos by an element moving or changing apperance between individual frames.






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






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






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






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






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






11. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






19. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






27. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. A Photoshop plug-in that allows for the development of unprocessed native image files.






41. Commands from the Filter menu or the Adjustments panel that can be applied nondestructively to a smart object.






42. New to CS5 - this tool lets you quickly confirm a line that you want to designate as the new vertical or horizontal basis of your image.






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






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






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






46. 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.






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






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






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






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