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1
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What do smart objects protect?

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Smart object protects layers and they keep them editable.

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What is the main inconvenience of using a smart object?

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Smart objects inflate the size of your Photoshop files

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3
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If you want to paint off the filter off the image, what should the color of your brush be?

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black

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If you want to repaint the filter back on the image, the color of the brush should be what?

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white

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5
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Pressure in liquify changes the

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brush distortion strength

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Density in liquify changes the

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brush edge strength

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7
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In adjustments, what is the biggest function of the highlights in levels?

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to increase the contrast of the image.

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8
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What does clipping mean?

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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.

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9
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What does the Gamma value let us do?

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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.

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10
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What do photoshop levels do?

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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.

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11
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What is a histogram?

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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.

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12
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The level command gives you ____ points of control.

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3, a black, a white, and a gamma value in between

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13
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What is the levels tool for?

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To change the contrast and the gamma value

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14
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Gamma correction

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often simply gamma, is a nonlinear operation used to encode and decode luminance or tristimulus values in video or still image systems.

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15
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What is the curves adjustment?

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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

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16
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Black ______. and white _____.

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Black conceals and white reveals

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17
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What is a blend mode?

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It is a tool in photoshop that uses basic math to blend the active layer with the ones below.

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18
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What is an opaque pixel?

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Pixels you can’t see through at all.

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19
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What is a transparency pixel?

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Pixels you can see through.

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20
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What is anti-alias in photoshop?

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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.

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21
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What is contiguous in photoshop?

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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)

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22
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Sample all layers checkbox

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Allows you to sample all the layers beneath the active layer you’ve selected.

Sample All Layers default is de-selected. That means the tool will sample pixels from the active layer only. You’ll find the Sample All Layers option in many of Photoshops retouching tools including the Clone Stamp, Blur, Sharpen, Smudge, both Healing brushes, and even the Magic Wand.

23
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What is choke in photoshop?

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To choke an object you would typically put a white outline around an object which would make the object a little skinnier.

24
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Dissolve mode dithers

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translucency

25
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The name of the category for darken, multiply, color burn, linear burn, and darker color are called _____ modes because…

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Darken mode because the active layer darkens the ones below it. These modes darken pixels to a certain extent unless it’s just bright plain white pixels.

Darken
Multiply
Color Burn
Linear Burn
Darker Color
26
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What’s the best blend mode to preserve natural shadows cast onto white backgrounds, and how you can blend in black and white logos, type treatments, and line art.

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Multiply Blend Mode

27
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The name of the category for Lighten, Screen, Color Dodge, Linear Dodge(add), and Lighter color are called ______ modes because…

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Lighten mode because the active layer lightens the ones below it.

Lighten
Screen 
Color Dodge
Linear Dodge
Lighter Color

Each has an opposite mode (paired sequentially (in the darken group) for example, Lighten is the opposite of Darken, Screen = Multiply, Color Dodge = Color Burn, Linear Dodge = Linear Burn, Lighter Color = Darker Color.

28
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The name of the category for Overlay, Soft Light, Hard Light, Vivid Light, Linear Light, Pin Light, and Hard mix are called ______ modes because

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Contrast modes because these combination of the darken and lighten modes increase the contrast of the composite image.

29
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Within the darken modes, what is their neutral color?

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White, every pixels darkens except for white.

30
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Within the lighten modes, what is their neutral color?

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Black, every pixels lightens except for black.

31
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Within contrast modes, what is their neutral color?

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50% gray, 50% darker than gray ends up darkening. 50% lighter than gray ends brightening.

32
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Overlay, Soft Light, and Hard Light are combinations of

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Multiply and Screen working together

33
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Vivid Light is a combination of

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Color Burn and Color Dodge

34
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Linear Light is a combination of

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Linear Burn and Linear Dodge

35
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Pin Light is a combination of

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Darken and Lighten

36
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The name of the category for Difference, Exclusion, Subtract, and Divide is called

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Inversion + Cancellation.

Difference and Exclusion: The active layer inverts the ones below it (Similar colors become black or grayish).
Subtract + Divide: The active layer from those below it

37
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The name of the category for Hue, Saturation, Color, and Luminosity is called?

A

Component modes

A pixel contains numerical HSL Data. (Color = H+S)
These modes mix the ingredients independently.

38
Q

Opacity affects _____ including effects but fill only affects the layer and not the effects.

A

everything

39
Q

Global Light allows you to create a

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light source

40
Q

What is Color Range?

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It’s a command that selects a specified color or color range within an existing selection or an entire image. (The results are subtle because this technique selects parts of colors within a color mix)

41
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______ reveals, ______ conceals

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White reveals, Black conceals.

White shines light on a layer, thereby revealing its contents.
Black hides the layer deep in its shadows.

42
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What are gamma Values?

A

Allows you to modify the mid tones independently.

43
Q

In curves adjustment tool, the upper-right area of the graph represents what?

A

The highlights

44
Q

In curves adjustment tool, the lower-left area represents what?

A

The shadows

45
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What does the curves adjustment tool allow you to do?

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It allows you to adjust a specific portion of the image just by dragging the points throughout the image’s tonal range.

46
Q

What does lines bowing inward suggest?

A

Pincushioning

47
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What does lines bowing out indicate?

A

Barrel Distortion

48
Q

How do you turn an image to a smart object?

A

Click on the Marquee Tool(m), then right click on the image, lastly, scroll down to “Convert to Smart Object”.
(Make sure your desired layer is selected)

49
Q

What tool can you use to correct the image’s perspective?

A

Lens correction tool

50
Q

What do you call it when you print two inks in concert to make a black and white photo?

A

Duotone

51
Q

What do you call it when you print three inks in concert to make a black and white photo?

A

Tritone

52
Q

What do you call it when you print four inks in concert to make a black and white photo?

A

Quadtone

53
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What does “flatten image” mean?

A

Merging all visible layers into the background layer to reduce file size

54
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What is sharpening?

A

Editing an image to make its details appear more sharply defined.

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