Chapter 8

Question 1

The digital sensors in smartphone cameras and entry-level dSLRs (APS-C) are:

Answer 1

smaller than a 35 mm film negative

Question 2

What’s the difference between Photoshop and so-called workflow applications?

Answer 2

workflow applications excel at organizing your photo archive

Question 3

Without adding more pixels, increasing the output size of an image results in

Answer 3

loss of resolution

Question 4

Which one of the following file formats is known for its lossy compression?

Answer 4

.jpg

Question 5

When editing digital black and white images, it’s best to

Answer 5

shoot raw and use B/W conversion techniques during editing to preserve color info

Question 6

.CR2 (Canon), .NEF (Nikon), and .ARW (Sony) are all proprietary examples of this file format.

Answer 6

RAW

Question 7

One disadvantage to shooting raw files in a dSLR is

Answer 7

limited ability to capture images in camera’s “burst” mode

Question 8

The ability of a workflow application like Lightroom or Capture One Pro to make extensive edits in a raw file without altering the raw data in any way is called

Answer 8

non-destructive editing

Question 9

This number measures how much color information is captured in each pixel

Answer 9

bit depth