Photoshop CC Terms and Basics KG

A panel featuring a quick way to add a specific type of layer that adjusts features like brightness, contrast, color, curves, saturation, and more.

• A: Character Panel

• B: Hex Color

• C: Adjustment Panel 

• D: Alignment

Answer explanation

A panel featuring a quick way to add a specific type of layer that adjusts features like brightness, contrast, color, curves, saturation, and more.

The justification in a composition of an object or text.

• A: Info Panel

• B: Raster

• C: Alignment 

• D: White Space

Answer explanation

The justification in a composition of an

object or text.

The ratio of the width and height of an image.

• A: Aspect Ratio

• B: Destructive Editing

• C: Repetition

• D: Crop

Answer explanation

The ratio of the width and height of an image.

A Creative Commons license that allows others to use the artists work, provided they credit the artist for the original work.

• A: CMYK

• B: Attribution CC 

• C: Rasterize

• D: Aspect Ratio

Answer explanation

A Creative Commons license that allows others to use the artists work, provided they credit the artist for the original work.

License design and rationale

All Creative Commons licenses have many important features in common. Every license helps creators — we call them licensors if they use our tools — retain copyright while allowing others to copy, distribute, and make some uses of their work — at least non-commercially. Every Creative Commons license also ensures licensors get the credit for their work they deserve. Every Creative Commons license works around the world and lasts as long as applicable copyright lasts (because they are built on copyright). These common features serve as the baseline, on top of which licensors can choose to grant additional permissions when deciding how they want their work to be used.

A Creative Commons license that allows others to use the artists work , unaltered, in commercial and non-commercial uses, provided that the artist is credited.

• A: Resolution

• B: Attribution-NoDerivs CC

• C: Raster

• D: Form

Answer explanation

CC-BY-ND - Attribution-NoDerivs

CC-BY-ND or Creative CommonsAttributionNoDerivs is a more restrictive license. Itallows you to redistribute the material commercially or non-commercially but the user cannot make any changes whatsoever to the original, i.e. no derivatives of the original work.

A Creative Commons license that allows others to use the artists work non-commercially and build upon the artists work, provided that the artist is credited.

• A: Framing

• B: Tools Panel

• C: Attribution-NonCommercial CC

• D: Metadata

Answer explanation

CC-BY-ND or Creative Commons Attribution NoDerivs

is a more restrictive license. It allows you to redistribute the material commercially or non-commercially but the user cannot make any changes whatsoever to the original, i.e. no derivatives of the original work.

A Creative Commons license that allows others to download and share the artists work, provided that they give credit to the artist, do not alter the work, or use the work commercially.

• A: Shape

• B: Form

• C: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs CC

• D: Line

Answer explanation

CC-BY-NC-ND or Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial NoDerivs, is the most restrictive license offered by Creative Commons. With this license, the user (while attributing the original creator) can only share the work but not change it in any way or ever use it commercially.

A Creative Commons license that allows others to use and build

upon an artists work non-commercially, provided they credit the artist

and maintain the same licensing.

• A: Line

• B: RGB

• C: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC

• D: Tools Panel

Answer explanation

This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms.

A Creative Commons license that is similar to the Attribution CC

but includes the provision that any work created from the artists original work must have the same license.

• A: Contrast

• B: Rasterize

• C: Attribution-ShareAlike CC

• D: Print with Preview

Answer explanation

A Creative Commons license that is similar to the Attribution CC but includes the provision that any work created from the artists original work must have the same license.

This license lets others remix, adapt, and build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. This license is often compared to “copyleft” free and open source software licenses. All new works based on yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also allow commercial use. This is the license used by Wikipedia, and is recommended for materials that would benefit from incorporating content from Wikipedia and similarly licensed projects.

A setting that determines the intensities of the colors in an image, generally red, green, and blue.

• A: Balance

• B: Hex Color

• C: Resolution

• D: Attribution CC

Answer explanation

Color balance can be used to correct color imperfections in your image. You can also use color balance to create dramatic effects by changing the overall mixture of colors used in your composite.

Photo Filter is another option that lets you apply a hue adjustment to your image. Photo Filter adjustments mimic the technique of placing a colored filter in front of your camera lens to adjust the color balance and temperature of the light transmitted through the lens and exposing the film. 

Applying both Color Balance and Photo Filter as adjustment layers is a more flexible method to work with them because it gives you the ability to readjust the settings, creates a layer mask to affect a part of an image, and protects the original image from direct changes.

Apply color balance adjustments

In Photoshop, you can access the color balance adjustment option from any of the following locations: 

In the Adjustments panel, click the Color Balance () icon.

Choose Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Color Balance. Click OK in the New Layer dialog box.

In the Layers panel, click Create new fill or adjustment layer () icon. Select Color Balance from the context menu options.

You can also choose Image > Adjustments > Color Balance. However, this method applies destructive adjustments to the image layer and discards image information due to which you cannot restore the original image.