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






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






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






4. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






13. A point along a path that joins two segments at a corner.






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






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






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






17. The name given to a pair of slider bars in the Layer Style dialog box that let you hide or reveal colors based on their luminosity levels.






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






19. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






25. To change the physical dimensions of an image by reducing the number of pixels.






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






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






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






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






31. A method of layer transformation that allows you to move points on a mesh to reshape and stretch an image.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. A new feature in CS5 that allows you to access the Bridge's photo organizing features.






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






41. The command that defines the RGB or CMYK color spaces employed by Photoshop.






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






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






44. 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.






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






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






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






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






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