Photoshop Terms Flashcards
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A layer that lets you apply color and tonal adjustments to your image without permanently changing pixel values. Can be thought of as a veil through which underlying layers are seen.
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Adjustment Layer
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The visual stair-stepping of edges that occurs in an image when the resolution is too low.
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Aliasing
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The smoothing of jagged edges in digital images by averaging the colors of the pixels at a boundary.
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Anti-Aliasing
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The bottom most in the Layers palette. When you import an image from a scanner or digital camera, the entire image will be placed on the Background layer.
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Background/Background Layer
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softening of the detail in an image or parts of an image.
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Blur
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Rectangular border around an image, shape, or text that you can drag to move, transform, rotate, or scale.
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Bounding Box
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The workspace around an existing image, within the image window.
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Canvas
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To copy pixels to new locations in an image. To paint with the Clone Stamp tool.
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Clone
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An unwanted color shift in the whole image, which can be caused by reflected light from a nearby object.
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Color Cast
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Determines how the components of a color are combined, based on the number of color channels in the color model. Includes Grayscale, RGB, and CMYK.
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Color Mode / Image Mode
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Multiple images combined into one.
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Composite
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Technique that is used to reduce the file size of bitmap images. Compressed images are used on web pages to improve viewing speed and performance.
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Compressing
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The difference in brightness between light and dark areas of an image. It determines the number of shades in the image.
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Contrast
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To trim a portion of an image to improve its composition.
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Crop
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A measure of the amount of light in which the photo was taken.
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Exposure
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Automated ways to alter the look of an image.
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Filter
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Merging all the visible layers into the background layer to reduce file size.
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Flattening
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Any of several methods for achieving a smooth transition between two adjacent colors, including black and white.
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Gradient
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An image that only includes black, white, and shades of gray.
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Grayscale
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Brightest elements of an image.
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Highlights
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Darkest parts of an image.
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Shadows
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Like stacked, transparent sheets of glass on which you can create images. You can see through the transparent areas of a _____ to the _____ below. You can work on each independently.
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Layer
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To change the relative lightness or darkness (intensity) of an image or color.
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Lighten
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In digital photography, it is the functionality that supports the transparent areas in an image or image layer.
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Transparency
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The extent to which something blocks light.
Opacity
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A broad view of a subject, usually a landscape, made by overlapping individual shots as they are taken and then merging them to form one image.
Panorama
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Described by an array or map of bits within a rectangular grid of pixels or dots.
Raster/Bitmap Images
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Described by lines, shapes, and other graphic image components stored in a format that incorporates geometric formulas for rendering the image elements.
Vector
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Changing the pixel dimensions of an image. Downsampling: decreases; Upsampling: increases
Resampling
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To change the physical dimensions of an image, a canvas, or a window.
Resize
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Amount of detail in an image. Digital images are measured by the number of pixels per inch(ppi). For printing, resolution is measured by the number of dots printed in a linear inch(dpi).
Resolution
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To change the resolution of a selection, a layer, or an entire image.
Rotate
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To select the color of an image area with the eyedropper tool.
Sample
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Makes the colors more vivid (less black and white).
Saturation
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Makes the colors more muted (more black or white added)
Desaturation
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Change the proportions of an image.
Scale
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Part of an image selected for manipulation of any kind. Consists of all the pixels—fully or partially selected—contained within the selection boundary.
Selection
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A photograph in warm shades of brown.
Sepia Tone
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Image enhancement technique in which the contrast between specific pixels is enhanced.
Sharpen
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To apply a vertical or horizontal slant to an image.
Skew
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To scale, shrink, enlarge, skew, distort, rotate, or change the perspective of a layer, selection, or shape.
Transform
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Reduction of an image's brightness or saturation at its edges compared to its center. The result is an image that is clear in the center, and fades out at the edges.
Vignette/Vignetting
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To distort an image, often text, to conform to a variety of shapes.
Warp
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To magnify or reduce the view of an image. It does not affect image size.
Zoom
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A graphics program used to design and edit graphics for both Windows and Macintosh platforms. Can be used to add special effects to an imag, correct color and image flaws, and even remove parts of an image from a background.
Photoshop
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The area in which you will create and/or modify images.
Canvas/Drawing Canvas
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Used to work on individual parts of an image while not affecting other parts.
Layers
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Allows you to rotate, scale(resize), reflect(mirror image), shear(slant), or distort an object. In addition, you can apply distortion or perspective to an object.
Free Tansform
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Automatically selects the layer you intend to work with as determined by where you click with the mouse. look
Auto Select
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Available from the options bar when you choose the Move tool or the Path Selection too. Checking this box allows you to see the bounding box that surrounds a selected object, which in turn makes it easier to move, resize, and rotate a selection.
Show Transform Controls
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Photoshop's own format for saving files. Files saved in this format retain layers and channels information, so that those items can be continually edited.
PSD
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Determines how the layer's colored pixels will mix (relate) with the underlying pixels in the image. Generally used to create special effects like adding soft light or hard light or to change the color, saturation, hue, luminosity, or other attributes of how the layers can be combined.
Blending Modes
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Used to specify how transparent a layer should be, either on its own or on regard to other layers.
Opacity
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Images such as photos are composed of this, which are small squares that contain color.
Pixels
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Determines how many pixels are shown per unit (such as inch or centimeter) in an image.
Resolution
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Color mode that uses red, green, and blue to create the colors you see. Monitors use this mode to output color and is also Photoshop's default mode.
RGB Mode
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Color mode that uses cyan, magenta, yellow, and black to create its colors. Assigns colors to pixels in percentages that are determined by the inks used (and have configured in the Color Settings).
CMYK
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Converting vector data to raster data. Also called rasterizing.
Rasterize
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Transform tool that allows you to slant an image vertically or horizontally.
Skew
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Transform tool that allows you to enlarge or reduce an image's size horizontally, vertically, or both.
Scale
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Transform tool that allows you to move an image in any direction. It is also a filter that allows you to manipulate an image drastically, offering special effects.
Distort
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Located on the left side of the screen. It is where you will find the tools you need to create your artwork and perform editing tasks.
Tools Panel
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Allows you to move a selection or entire layer by dragging it with your mouse or using your keyboard arrow keys.
Move Tool
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The most efficient way to make a selection in Adobe Photoshop.
Quick Mask Mode
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At the most basic level, the tool is used to select areas of an image, which can be then copied, cut, or cropped. Specific sections of a graphic can be selected to apply a filter or effect to a particular area. It allows you to draw rectangular and elliptical selections.
Marquee Tool
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Allows us to draw freehand selections around objects as if we were outlining them on paper with a pen or pencil.
Lasso Tool
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Used to quickly 'paint' a selection using an adjustable round brush rip. As you drag, the selection expands outward and automatically finds and follows defined edges in the images.
Quick Selection Tool
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Lets you select a consistently colored area without having to trace its outline. You specify the selected color range, or tolerance, relative to the original color you click.
Magic Wand Tool
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Allows you to select an area of an image and discard everything outaide this area.
Crop Tool
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Allows you to divide an image into smaller sections which fit together like a jigsaw (but with straight edges).
Slice Tool
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Used to sample a color from an image to use this color further. Enables you to change foreground or background colors by lifting them from the image.
Eye Dropper Tool
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Allows you to fix image imperfections such as scratches and blemishes. By sampling the surrounding area or using a predefined pattern, you can blend the imperfections into the rest of the image.
Healing Brush Tool
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Default healing tool in Photoshop and can be used to clone areas from an image and blend the pixels from the sampled area seamlessly with the target area. The basic principle is that the texture from the sample area is blended with the color and luminosity surrounding wherever you paint.
Spot Healing Brush Tool
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One of the best tools Photoshop has to offer. You can use it to remove small or large areas from your photo. You can also use it to duplicate parts of your photo.
Patch Tool
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Work like traditional drawing tools applying coloe with brush strokes. In the options bar for each of these painting tools, you can set how color is applied to an image and choose from oreset brush tips. It's located in the standard Tool Bar and its default shortcut is the letter B.
Brush Tool & Pencil Tool
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Allows you to blend colors and vary your wetness within a single brush stroke. Uses two paint wells—a 'reservoir' that deposits color (Adobe calls it paint) on the canvas and a 'pickup' that recieves, or picks up color from the canvas (which can be an image or color you've applied).
Mixer Brush Tool
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Allows you to duplicate part of an image. The process involves setting a sampling point in the image which will be used as a reference to create a new cloned area.
Clone Stamp Tool
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Very useful tool when making designs. You can use it to give interesting textures and backgrounds to your image. Allows you to create your own patter stamps. You can fill pattern in your image using this tool.
Pattern Stamp Tool
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In Adobe Photoshop CS6, you can use this to apply an image area
from a different state or snapshot to your current state.
History Brush tool
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can be found in the second group of icons in the toolbox. It has three
variations: Eraser, Background Eraser and Magic Eraser. The eraser is basically a brush which erases pixels as you drag it across the image. Pixels are erased to transparency, or the background color if the layer is locked.
Eraser Tool
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One of the easiest ways to remove a background or part of a background from an image in Photoshop. It samples the color at the center of the brush and deletes pixels of a similar color as you drag around your image.
Background Eraser Tool.
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Grouped with the Gradient tool in the toolbar. Specify whether to fill the selection with the foreground color or with a pattern. Specify a blending mode and opacity for the paint.
Paint Bucket Tool
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Is used to paint a blur effect. Each stroke made using the Blur Tool will lower the contrast between affected pixels, making them appear blurred.
Blur Tool
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It increases the contrast among adjacent pixels to give the illusion that things are sharper. It can quickly give way to overly grainy and noisy images if you're not cautious.
Sharpen Tool
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Can be used to create a lens blur effect and to blend certain aspects of a picture. Smudge tool can be used for smoothing. This tool performs more of a warping effect, something like the Warp tool in the Liquify dialog box.
Smudge Tool
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Used to lighten or darken areas of the image. These tools are based on a traditional darkroom technique for regulating exposure on specific areas of a print. Photographers hold back light to lighten an area on the print (dodging) or increase the exposure to darken areas on a print (burning).
Dodge Tool & Burn Tool
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An amazing but not a well-known tool that is incredibly useful. It allows
you to choose a brush to desaturate or saturate a certain area on a picture.
Sponge Tool
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Lets you intuitively draw curves and straight segments.
Curvature Pen tool
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Lets you draw straight segments and curves with great precision.
Standard Pen tool
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Lets you draw paths as if you were drawing with pencil on a piece of paper.
Freeform Pen tool
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Lets you draw a path that snaps to the edges of the
defined areas in your image.
Magnetic Pen options
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Allows direct on-image text editing. The only difference between the horizontal and vertical type tools is that the horizontal type tool adds text horizontally and the vertical type tool adds text vertically.
Type Tool
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A simple and handy tool that allows you to move around your path selections. A path selection is something you created either with the Pen Tool or the Shape Tool that can allow you to create new layers or masks that allow for fully controllable selections.
Path Selection Tool
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selects and moves existing path's / vector shape mask's
segments / anchor points.
Direct Selection Tool
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Allow you to add graphic shapes in the form of a filled layer with a vector mask, a solid fill, or as a path outline.
Shape Tools
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Allows you to move your image around its window by dragging. This tool is great when navigating while zoomed in.
Hand Tool
