Quizzes Q&A

Question 1

If you want to save a multi-layered image in Photoshop, and you want to keep the layers to work on in the future, which file format does Deke recommend saving your images in?

Answer 1

.PSD

Question 2

When you’ve modified an image but want to keep both the newly-modified image and the old image, which file command should you use when saving the newly-modified image?

Answer 2

Save as…

Question 3

True/False: When saving a flat version of an image as a TIFF copy, Deke recommends that you turn on LZW (lossless compression).

Answer 3

True

Question 4

True/False: You should always, without exception, shoot the highest quality images possible with your digital camera.

Answer 4

True

Question 5

True/False: In CS6, if you end up not liking a crop you’ve made to an image, unfortunately you will need to undo and start from the beginning again.

Answer 5

False

Question 6

True/False: When the orientation of the image changes via the Crop Tool, then each and every pixel has been rewritten (unlike when using the Rotate View Tool).

Answer 6

True

Question 7

True/False: Deke recommends that you do not name your layers. When working on a large Photoshop project, it’s not confusing to work with layers 1 thru 99.

Answer 7

False (duh)

Question 8

True/False: If you need to undo multiple steps back, Deke recommends using the History window rather than hitting Control Z multiple times.

Answer 8

True

Question 9

True/False: One of the great things about layers is that you can edit non-destructively.

Answer 9

True

Question 10

True/False: When choosing New, and then Background from Layer, it does two things. (1) It sends the layer to the back of the stack, and (2) it makes a flat image element of the layer so it’s not a floating layer.

Answer 10

True

Question 11

What is applying a clipping mask?

Answer 11

Putting one layer inside of another layer (as in a frame effect)

Question 12

True/False: Luminance, also known as tone, is the brightness of a pixel.

Answer 12

True

Question 13

True/False: What we see as a full color image is actually multiple gray-scale images working in concert with each other. These images are known as channels.

Answer 13

True

Question 14

Digital photographs are made up of three color channels. What colors are they?

Answer 14

Red, Green, and Blue

Question 15

When changing luminance levels, Deke would most often recommend this so you leave your image unharmed:

Answer 15

Add an independent adjustment layer of luminance correction, so you can turn it off or on as you like.

Question 16

True/False: One of the bad things about using adjustment layers is that you cannot isolate the adjustment to specific regions of the image.

Answer 16

False

Question 17

Color is a combination of which two ingredients?

Answer 17

Hue and Saturation (or Saturation and Hue)

Question 18

When you apply a color balance adjustment layer to a multi-layered image, but you only want the color balance to affect one image layer, what should you do?

Answer 18

Add a clipping mask

Question 19

Two of the three following commands correct the image on a channel-by-channel basis, and as a result will change the color of an image. Those are:

Answer 19

Auto Color; Auto Contrast

Question 20

True/False: When adjusting the colors in the image of his two boys, Deke felt that opening the image in Bridge and using Camera Raw yielded undesirable results.

Answer 20

False

Question 21

True/False: When you using the color balance adjustment layer to balance the color of an image, Deke recommends that you want to first think in terms of the color you want to remove- for example, “I should remove the red from this image”- rather than thinking, for example, “I need more cyan in this image.”

Answer 21

True

Question 22

True/False: There are two ways to modify an image in Photoshop- global modification (editing the entire image at once) or selective modification (editing a specific region).

Answer 22

True

Question 23

Deke uses the polygonal lasso tool to build what in the select and edit video?

Answer 23

Rays coming from the moon

Question 24

If you wanted to expand an existing selection you have made along a visual edge, what tool would you use?

Answer 24

Quick select tool

Question 25

If you wanted to select regions of color, based on their luminance levels, what tools would you use?

Answer 25

Magic wand –> select –> modify –> expand; or tolerance –> click; or shift –> click.

Question 26

What is the difference between hide and deselect and why does it matter?

Answer 26

Hide keeps all of the guides away from what you are viewing, but they are still there and selected. However, if you deselect, you will lose all the work you have made.

Question 27

True/False: Retouching is the art of making someone or something better.

Answer 27

True

Question 28

True/False: Content-aware fills only work on the edges of an image. In other words, to retouch or heal a section in the middle of the image you must use another tool.

Answer 28

False

Question 29

Does the Dodge tool lighten or darken?

Answer 29

Lightens

Question 30

Does the Burn tool lighten or darken?

Answer 30

Darken

Question 31

When you paint with the Sponge tool set to desaturate mode, what happens to the colors where you paint?

Answer 31

Colors get more gray