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WorksheetsPhotoshop basic terms
Total questions: 44
Worksheet time: 22mins
Which term means the bottommost layer in the Layers palette
Background
Layer
Adjustment Layer
Sample
Which term means things are like stacked, transparent sheets of glass on which you can create images.
Background
Layer
Adjustment Layer
Sample
Which term means to magnify or reduce the view of an image
clone
zoom
resize
selection
Which term means a layer that lets you apply color and tonal adjustments to your image without permanently changing pixel values
Background
Layer
Adjustment Layer
Sample
Which term means to copy pixels to new locations in an image.
clone
zoom
resize
selection
Which term means a part of an image selected for manipulation of any kind—duplication in a layer, color correction, deletion, rotation, and so on.
clone
zoom
resize
selection
Which term means, an image that includes only black, white, and shades of gray
color cast
gradient
sepia
grayscale
Which term means a photograph in warm shades of brown.
color cast
gradient
sepia
grayscale
Which term means any of several methods for achieving a smooth transition between two adjacent colors, including black and white.
color cast
gradient
sepia
grayscale
Which term means to change the physical dimensions of an image, a canvas, or a window.
clone
zoom
resize
selection
Which term means softening of the detail in an image or parts of a image.
blur
filter
transform
warp
Which term means automated ways to alter the look of an image—for instance, to make it look like a mosaic, add unique lighting, apply distortions, and so on.
blur
filter
transform
warp
Which term means to distort an image, often text, to conform to a variety of shapes
blur
filter
transform
warp
Which term means a measure of the amount of light in which a photo was taken. Underexposed digital photos are too dark; overexposed photos are, too light.
exposure
resolution
resize
lighten
Which term means to change the physical dimensions of an image, a canvas, or a window.
exposure
resolution
resize
lighten
Which term means merging all visible layers into the background layer to reduce file size.
flatten
compression
resample
sharpen
Which term means to change the orientation of a selection, a layer, or an entire image (that is, the image canvas). For example, to make a vertically oriented image horizontal.
skew
composite
rotate
scale
Which term means to change the relative lightness or darkness (intensity) of an image or color.
exposure
resolution
resize
lighten
Which term means to apply a horizontal or vertical slant to an image.
skew
composite
rotate
scale
Which term means an unwanted color shift in the whole image, which can be caused by reflected light from a nearby object. For example, many photos taken using fluorescent lighting tend to have a greenish color cast
color cast
gradient
sepia
grayscale
Which term means to scale, shrink, enlarge, skew, distort, rotate, or change the perspective of a layer, selection, or shape.
blur
filter
transform
warp
Which term means multiple images combined into one.
skew
composite
rotate
scale
Which term means images that are described by an array or map of bits within a rectangular grid of pixels or dots.
aliasing
anti-aliasing
raster
vector
Which term means to select the color of an image area with the eyedropper tool.
Background
Layer
Adjustment Layer
Sample
Which term means to change the proportions of an image. For example, to make an image one-half of its original size.
skew
composite
rotate
scale
Which term means the thing that determines how the components of a color are combined, based on the number of color channels in the color model.
color mode
crop
highlight
shadow
Which term means 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.
canvas
panorama
vignette
bounding box
Which term means a measure of the amount of light in which a photo was taken.
saturation
opacity
contrast
exposure
Which term means a technique that reduces the file size of bitmap images
flatten
compression
resample
sharpen
Which term means changing the pixel dimensions of an image
flatten
compression
resample
sharpen
Which term means an image enhancement technique in which the contrast between specific pixels is enhanced.
flatten
compression
resample
sharpen
Which term means the workspace around an existing image, within the image window.
canvas
panorama
vignette
bounding box
Which term means a rectangular border around an image, shape, or text that you can drag to move, transform, rotate, or scale.
canvas
panorama
vignette
bounding box
Which term means a reduction of an image's brightness or saturation at its edges compared to its center.
canvas
panorama
vignette
bounding box
Which term means the visual stair-stepping of edges that occurs in an image when the resolution is too low
aliasing
anti-aliasing
raster
vector
Which term means the 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). The higher the resolution, the larger the file size
exposure
resolution
resize
lighten
Which term means is the smoothing of jagged edges in digital images by averaging the colors of the pixels at a boundary.
aliasing
anti-aliasing
raster
vector
Which term means images that are described by lines, shapes, and other graphic image components stored in a format that incorporates geometric formulas for rendering the image elements.
aliasing
anti-aliasing
raster
vector
Which term means the thing that makes colors more vivid (less black or white added).
saturation
opacity
contrast
exposure
Which term means the extent to which something blocks light.
saturation
opacity
contrast
exposure
Which term means the difference in brightness between light and dark areas of an image.
saturation
opacity
contrast
exposure
Which term means the darkest parts of an image
color mode
crop
highlight
shadow
Which term means to trim a portion of an image to improve its composition.
color mode
crop
highlight
shadow
Which term means the brightest elements in an image
color mode
crop
highlight
shadow
