Advanced Flashcards
What do smart objects protect?
Smart object protects layers and they keep them editable.
What is the main inconvenience of using a smart object?
Smart objects inflate the size of your Photoshop files
If you want to paint off the filter off the image, what should the color of your brush be?
black
If you want to repaint the filter back on the image, the color of the brush should be what?
white
Pressure in liquify changes the
brush distortion strength
Density in liquify changes the
brush edge strength
In adjustments, what is the biggest function of the highlights in levels?
to increase the contrast of the image.
What does clipping mean?
Loss in detail.
When either the highlights disappear off the right side of the histogram and are blown out, or conversely, the shadows extend beyond the left side of the histogram- either results in a loss of detail.
What does the Gamma value let us do?
Enables you to adjust how an image is displayed on your monitor. This does not mean that the gamma setting is the same as the brightness setting. It only adjusts the dark tones.
What do photoshop levels do?
It is a tool which can move and stretch the brightness levels of an image histogram. It has the power to adjust brightness, contrast, and tonal range by specifying the location of complete black, complete white, and midtones in a histogram.
What is a histogram?
a histogram panel displays the tonal range (also referred to as the key type) of an image. It shows how the pixels are distributed by graphing the number of pixels at each of the 256 brightness levels in an image.
The level command gives you ____ points of control.
3, a black, a white, and a gamma value in between
What is the levels tool for?
To change the contrast and the gamma value
Gamma correction
often simply gamma, is a nonlinear operation used to encode and decode luminance or tristimulus values in video or still image systems.
What is the curves adjustment?
You adjust the points throughout an images tonal range. the image’s tonality is represented as a straight diagonal line on a graph. When adjusting an RGB image, the upper-right area of the graph represents the highlights and the lower-left area represents the shadows
Black ______. and white _____.
Black conceals and white reveals
What is a blend mode?
It is a tool in photoshop that uses basic math to blend the active layer with the ones below.
What is an opaque pixel?
Pixels you can’t see through at all.
What is a transparency pixel?
Pixels you can see through.
What is anti-alias in photoshop?
Anti-aliasing is the smoothing of jagged edges in digital images by averaging the colors of the pixels at a boundary. (creates soft edges)
In computer graphics, antialiasing is a software technique for diminishing jaggies - stairstep-like lines that should be smooth. Jaggies occur because the output device, the monitor or printer, doesn’t have a high enough resolution to represent a smooth line. … Antialiasing is sometimes called oversampling.
What is contiguous in photoshop?
The “Contiguous” option you see in Photoshop when you use the “Magic Wand,” the “Magic Eraser,” the “Background Eraser,” the “Paint Bucket” and other tools. Basically, “contiguous” means touching or connected. In Photoshop, it describes pixels of the same color touching each other. (turning it off allows you the pick up all the same color pixels with a magic wand tool)