Exam Revision Flashcards
Amount of colours in a JPEG
16 million
Colours in a PNG 8
256
Gif amount of colours
256
PNG 24 colours
16 million
Images for web are
72 ppi
Images for print are
300 ppi
Tiff compression
Lossless
JPG compression
Lossy
Cmd +
Zooms in
Cmd -
Zooms out
Poliginal is
A straight line lasso
Cmd + K
Preferences
Alt to zoom out with
Scrubby zoom
Cmd 0
Zoom to fit
To find resolution
Image, image size
PPI stands for
Pixels per inch (resolution)
JPEGs are not used in
Resampling mean
Adding or taking away pixels
To upres an image
Choose preserve details 2.0
Alt allows changes to cancel or
Reset in a dialogue box
Ratio is the
Default for cropping
With resample turned off
Width / height automatically changes
Resample shows if
Something is good enough for print
Compression
Loses colour
Cmd Z
Undo
Max
A little compression
Low
A lot of compression
A tiff is a
Larger file
Hold alt + pull
Both sides cropped evenly
To turn on/off snap
View - snap
Crop perspective
Click + drag edges
For cropping multiple images
File - automate - crop - straighten
For crop preset
Px inches and not cms
Cmd R
Rulers
To change measurements
Right click on ruler or change in preferences
To have named images in bridge folders
File - generate - assets
Copy and paste settings
Camera raw - develop settings
Alt + eye
Only shows that layer
SRGB
Not as common as RGB
Tiff and PSD
Support layers
To adjust / distort
Edit - transform
To export a single layer
Right click
Increase the pen tool
In settings
Automatic path (which is not as good as drawing)
Select - inverse - path - make work path
To load a selection
Cmd click on mask or select - load selection
Drop shadow and smart object adjustment
Does not come up in exam
To align both layers
Select both, edit - auto align
Cmd + click releases
Current path of rubber band - be on path mode
To duplicate style
Alt + Drag “Fx”
An embedded smart object
Can be converted to a linked smart object in layer
A mask will update
When the smart object is double clicked on + edit mask
Cmd L
Levels
Shift [
Soft brush
Shift ]
Hard brush
Edge detection
Improves
Alt + layer mask
Automatic inverse
Selective colour works with
CMYK
Unsharp mask
Filter - sharpen
Colour balance is for
Eyes, cheeks and can be brightened by levels
Cmd + Alt + Shift + E
Puts into one layer composite (add a blank layer first)
Layer comps
New layer comp - turn off some layers - new comp
Histogram levels
Hold alt to see where the information begins for black and white - for greys - match RGB by looking for grey with the eye dropper
Black eye dropper
Shadows
White eye dropper
Highlights
To find the darkest and lightest point
Layer - threshold
Add target
Shift + click with eye dropper
Remove targets
Alt + shift + click
Update colours
Double click on eyedropper, change numbers of RGB
Merge HDR
Remove ghosts - 16 bit - custom or menu
New layer
Edit - fill - contents - history
Displacement app
U turn sin
Select layer mask
To reveal a background
Alt + backspace
Fills with foreground colour
Cmd + backspace
Fills with background colour
For shadows use
Layer style
Blend if
Use sliders, alt click on one side of the slider to split
Place linked images
Backgrounds!
Saved selection can become
An alpha channel if you create a duplicate RGB
Select and mask
On a layer use radius and decontaminate colours
Ledding
Line spacing
JPEGs
Don’t support transperancy
Blur at the end of text
Anti aliasing
:AN
Image - mode- lab colour - adjustment levels - a and b are colour channels
Can’t use LAB for
Print or web (convert = image - mode - RGB - flatten)
Filter blur
Filter - Gaussian blue - choose layer - layer mask - colour range - select
Cmd J
Duplicate adjusted layer
Colour changing with selection
Quick selection tool - alt to subtract
Black and white:
Greyscale, black and white, or desaturated
To change an image to black and white
- Adjustment layer, 2. Image - adjustments - desaturate, 3. Image - mode - greyscale (which changes the colour channels)
Tint
Choose a colour swatch, auto is sepia
Adjustment layer - solid colour
Cmd I to invert, use the solid colour and add a filter through the normal menu
For blending options
Layers - normal
Dodging and burning are
Destructive in shadowing or brightening.
Burn
Drops exposure