PhotoShop Concepts Part 3

1.    It’s located across the bottom of the application bar and organizes commands in individual menus. Main Menu

2.    It contains tools for creating and editing images, artwork, page elements, and soon. Related tools are groups together. Tools Palette 

3.    It displays the file you’re working on. Document window 

4.    These help you monitor and modify your work. Palettes

5.    This tool moves an image within its window. This is useful if you want to see a part of the image that is currently out of view. Selection Tool

6.    In Ps this refers to the horizontal movement or rotation of an image. Panning

7.    In Ps this refers to change from a distant view to a more close-up view or vice versa.

8.    This palette is another quick way to make large changes in zoom level.  Navigator Palette

9.    You can use this layer to make changes in hue, levels, etc. while preserving the original image. Adjustment Layer 

10. You can use these tools to change the lightness and darkness of particular areas of an image. Layers Style

11. This tool allows more light to show through the negative, making the area lighter. Dodge & Burn

12. This tool allows less light to show, making the area darker.  

13. This palette is used to undo steps and it keeps track of the last 20 commands you’ve applied to an image, allowing you to revert any one of these. Palette

14. This tool is used to remove minor blemishes from a photo. It is most effective with small distinctive features. Clone Stamp

15. This tool automatically samples pixels from the surrounding area and applies these to the selected area. Hand Tool

16. Mention the file format to save photos for the web. 

17. Mention why the JPEG format is popular. It compresses better 

18. You can use this command to preview JPEGs with different compression settings before you save them.  Document Window

19. Mention the recommended resolution to save images for on-screen display and images for print. 72 PPI & 300 PPI

20. Mention the  color combination that computers use to display photos. CMYK

21. Mention the name of the color combination used by the offset printing presses.   RGB

22. Mention three examples of formats with no compression, known them as lossless format. TIFF, PDF 

23. This is the level of detail in a bitmap image and is measured in pixels per inch (ppi). 

24. The better you are at using these tools, the more flexibility you have with changing parts of images. Spot Healing Brush Tool

25. This tool selects parts of an image that have similar colors.  Magic Wand

26. This tool selects a geometrically shaped area, such as a rectangle or circle. Selection Tools

27. This tool defines a selection area by hand. Polygonal Lasso Tool

28. This blurs a selection’s edges by adding a transition boundary between the selection and its surrounding pixels. Burn Tool

29. These are like sheets of stacked paper. Layers

30. You can apply this to add special effects such as drop shadow or a glow. Marquee Tools