2nd Bim Exam / 2nd Part

2nd Bim Exam / 1st Part

Practice #10 - Vector Mask Layers

Photoshop's Concept 3rd Part

1.    It’s located across the bottom of the application bar and organizes commands in individual menus. 

      Main Menu

2.    It contains tools for creating and editing images, artwork, page elements, and soon. Related tools are groups together. 

    Tools Palette

3.    It displays the file you’re working on. 
    Document Window

4.    These help you monitor and modify your work. 
     Palettes

5.    This tool moves an image within its window. This is useful if you want to see a part of the image that is currently out of view. 
      Hand tool

 

6.    In Ps this refers to the horizontal movement or rotation of an image. 
     Panning

7.    In Ps this refers to change from a distant view to a more close-up view or vice versa. 
     Zooming

8.    This palette is another quick way to make large changes in zoom level. 
     Navigator pallete

9.    You can use this layer to make changes in hue, levels, etc. while preserving the original image. 
      Adjustment Layers

10. You can use these tools to change the lightness and darkness of particular areas of an image. 
      Dodge & Burn

11. This tool allows more light to show through the negative, making the area lighter. 
     Dodge Tool

     

12. This tool allows less light to show, making the area darker. 
       Burn Tool

13. This palette is used to undo steps and it keeps track of the last 20 commands you’ve applied to an image, allowing you to revert any one of these. 
     History Palette

14. This tool is used to remove minor blemishes from a photo. It is most effective with small distinctive features. 
     Spot Healing Brush Tool

15. This tool automatically samples pixels from the surrounding area and applies these to the selected area. 
     Clone Stamp Tool

16. Mention the file format to save photos for the web. 
     JPEG

17. Mention why the JPEG format is popular. 
     It compresses well

18. You can use this command to preview JPEGs with different compression settings before you save them. 
     Save for Web & Devices

19. Mention the recommended resolution to save images for on-screen display and images for print. 
     72 ppi & 300 ppi

20. Mention the color combination that computers use to display photos. 
    RGB

21. Mention the name of the color combination used by the offset printing presses.
    CMYK

22. Mention two examples of formats with no compression, known them as lossless format. 
     TIFF, PDF

23. This is the level of detail in a bitmap image and is measured in pixels per inch (ppi). 
     Resolution

24. The better you are at using these tools, the more flexibility you have with changing parts of images.
     Selection Tools

25. This tool selects parts of an image that have similar colors. 
      Magic Wand Tool

26. This tool selects a geometrically shaped area, such as a rectangle or circle. 
     Marquee Tools

27. This tool defines a selection area by hand. 
     Polygonal Lasso Tool

28. This blurs a selection’s edges by adding a transition boundary between the selection and its surrounding pixels. 
     Tolerance

29. These are like sheets of stacked paper. 
    Layers

30. You can apply this to add special effects such as drop shadow or a glow. 
      Layer Styles

Photoshop's Concepts 1st Part

1. The process for creating a new document

2. The process for placing an image.

3. The process for opening a document.

4. The process for saving an image as JPEG, medium quality.

5. The process to change an image's size

Photoshop's most commonly used shortcuts & quick keys

1)        New file: Ctrl + N

2)        Open file: Ctrl + O

3)        Close file: Ctrl + W

4)         Undo: Ctrl + Z

5)         Copy: Ctrl + C

6)         Paste: Ctrl + V

7)         Fill: Shift + F5

8)         Free transform: Ctrl + T

9)         Hue and saturation: Ctrl + U

10)       Image size: Alt + Ctrl + I

11)       Canvas size: Alt + Ctrl + C

12)       New layer: Shift + Ctrl + N

13)       Liquify Filter: Shift + Ctrl + X

14)       Layers: F7

15)       Marquee tools: M

16)       Lasso tools: L

17)       Magic wand tool: W

18)       Crop tool: C

19)       Healing brush / red eye tools: J

20)       Brush /pencil  tools: B

21)       Clone & pattern stamp tools: S

22)       Eraser tool: E

23)       Gradient / paint bucket tools: G

24)       Pen tool: P

25)       Type tool: T

26)       Path & direct selection tools: A

27)       Shapes tools: U

28)       Hand tool: H

29)       Zoom tool : Z

Photoshop's Interface