PHOTOSHOP STUDY GUIDE FOR CHAPTER A, B TEST

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1 1 PHOTOSHOP STUDY GUIDE FOR CHAPTER A, B TEST 1. Adobe CS5 is a graphic arts package that offers Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign and Flash and Dreamweaver. They are integrated programs used as an industry standard in graphic arts.. 2. Photoshop is an image editing program 3. Digital image is a picture in electronic form 4. Image editing program allows manipulation of graphic images 5. Images are made up of dots called pixels 6. Know the decisions that are made and the Steps for opening a new and existing Photoshop document 7. What is purpose of file browser (find files easily) 8. What is bridge and mini bridge? How does the bridge make browsing for files easier? Advantages or disadvantages of using it? 9. There are several ways to open a file and save a file. Know what they are and the advantages or disadvantages of them. Identify parts of workspace page A Identify toolbox icons page A Workspace is the area in the program window that includes the entire window, from the command menus to the top of your screen to the status bar at the bottom. Look at page A Toolbox contains tolls associated with commands. The face of a tool contains a graphic of the tool. If there are hidden tools a small black triangle is in the lower right corner. 13. There are two title bars. A program title bar and an active file title bar. The active file title bar displays the program name and the % that the file is viewed at and a close button that closes the file but not the program. Pages are named untitled1 by default. 14. Palettes are small windows used to verify settings and modify images. Palettes appear in stacked groupos on the right side of the window. The window menu can open and close palettes. They can be separated, moved, grouped, and docked. 15. Status bar at the bottom displays file size of active window, description of tool 16. Rulers are not on by default but can be turned on using the view menu and can be changed from pixels to inches by right clicking on the ruler 17. Individual customized workspaces can be created. Know how to do that and why Toolbox uses tools associated with frequently used commands. 20. Shortcut keys are letters that represent a tool can be used to activate a tool rather than clicking on it. For example, pressing the letter T will activate the type tool. 21. Users can customize the Photoshop workspace to display the palettes they choose when opening Photoshop.

2 22. Options bar located directly under the menu displays the current settings for each tool. 23. The active layer is always blue and only the blue layer will receive editing changes. 24. Palettes or panels are small windows used to change or verify settings. The options bar changes based on the tool being used. 25. Compositing is combining images from different sources 26. Define Layer (section in an image that can be manipulated independently). Layers allow individual elements in a photo to be manipulated. Advantage of layers is to be able to isolate an image or an effect applied to an image the disadvantage is that increases file size. 27. What is a selection? (An area of an image surrounded by a marquee) 28. What is a marquee: dashed line? 29. What are the four marquee tools (rectangular, elliptical, single row, single column?) 30. What are the two basic methods for making selections (tool and color) 31. What are the three freeform tools? Magnetic lasso, polygonal lasso, lasso tool 32. What are the four fixed area tools? Rectangular, elliptical, single row, single column 33. What are the color tools? Color range or magic wand tool 34. What can be done with a selection once it is made? move, copy, transform 35. Fastening point is an anchor within a marquee 36. Feather is the amount of blur between the selection and the surrounding pixels 37. Edge contrast is the sensitivity value of 1 to a 100% which defines the contrast between two edges 38. Frequency is the rate at which a fastening point is applied 39. What is transforming a selection and what is the keyboard command? (Changing the size CTRL T) 40. How can a selection be flipped (edit/transform/flip) 41. High contrast between colors is necessary when selecting with color. 42. What tools can be used to heal a picture. Explain what makes each tool useful and unique. 43. Text layers have a T on them and the text can be modified. A text layer can be rasterized which turns it into an image. Once that is done text on the layer cannot be modified. 44. Layers can be merged. Know how to do this. Text layers must be rasterized befoe merging them. 45. The order that layers appear in a layer palette match their order in an image. The topmost layer covers anything below. Layers can be displayed or hidden by clicking on the indicates layer visibility button next to the layer thumbnail. 2

3 46. Layer thumbnails display what is in the layer. Type layers have a T and image layers will display the image isolated on that layer. 47. Layers allow the user to control the positon and quality of the element on each layer which allows controlling the smallest detail of any image. An image can have a maximum of 8000 layers. 48. Opacity is the ability to see through a layer so that layers below are visible. 49. Layer palette gives the name of each layer. If the layer name is too long ellipses (.) will appear at the end of the truncated name as it is viewed. The layer thumbnail is a miniature picture to the left of the layer which shows layer content. Layers can be named, moved, deleted, duplicated, colored, and grouped. 50. Background layers are always on the bottom and any layer can be turned into a background layer using the layers menu or any background layer can be turned into an image by double clicking on it. Background layers cannot be modified. 51. What is a layers palette (displays all the layers in an open file and allows layers to be manipulated independently.) 52. How is a layer made active (clicking on it) 53. Know how to group layers and why it would be done How is a layer name changed? By double clicking on the name or right clicking and selecting rename layer 56. How is new layer created? Click new layer icon or use the drop list on the upper right corner of the layer palette to get a menu which offers a create new layer choice 57. How is layer deleted? Drag layer to trash can icon or right click and delete it 58. How many layers are active at once? one 59. How is layer undeleted? CTRL Z 60. How can a layer be hid? Clicking on the indicates layer visibility button 61. Why would opacity be used and how can it be changed? To make a layer lighter. Drag the opacity button to the left or right 62. Where is the background layer always located? Bottom of layers 63. What must be done in order to make it possible to edit a background layer? Convert it to an image layer by double clicking on name and renaming 64. What is the benefit of using layers? (Can be rearranged to change order, can isolate what is modified w/o changing rest of picture, can isolate what user works on) 65. What is the history palette 66. What does it mean to defringe a layer (remove unwanted pixels around the edge of a photo) 67. What are the steps for defringing a layer? 68. How is a selection unselected? CTRL D 3

4 69. What is the options bar and where is it located? The options bar is located directly under the menu bar. It displays current settings for each tool. 70. What happens when an image is flatted? 71. Why would an image be flattened? 4

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