Adobe Photoshop Chapter 2 Notes – Learning Photoshop Basics – Flashcards

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Every image opened in Photoshop is made up of one or more ____, and it is within these that you, as an artist, work your magic.
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Layers
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Since ____ are the key to creating and manipulating Photoshop images, the ____ panel is one that we depend on most, for it tells us at-a-glance the order and type of these within an image.
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Layers, Layers,
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You'll find that the Help system is accessed using your ____.
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Browser (Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Firefox, etc. (Netscape Navigator, CompuServe, Mosaic, etc.))
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____ is a fee-based membership service that integrates Adobe Photoshop with apps in the Creative Cloud, as well as a variety of tools.
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Adobe Creative Cloud
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____ is a management feature of the Adobe Creative Cloud that can be used to organize your work whether you work in groups or by yourself.
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Creative.adobe.com
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A virtual environment is also known as ____.
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Cloud computing
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This allows you to store multiple versions of your work
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File versioning
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You can duplicate settings in your personal workspace such as Preferences using the ____ feature
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sync
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A social network platform dedicated to the showcasing and promotion of creative work. Participation is free for creative professionals. (Behold...my work!)
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Behance
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This allows you to discover and install plug-ins, extensions, and other content for your Creative Cloud apps. This panel contains all sorts of free and paid content you can download.
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Adobe Exchange
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This service lets you select from a seemingly endless supply of really cool font families. After installation you may need to reboot the computer.
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Adobe typekit
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Project complexity triangle—The project scope has three variables:
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Performance, time, and cost.
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Renaming files, copying files and folders can be easily carried out in ____ and ____.
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Bridge and Mini Bridge
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A descriptive standardized information (data) about a file, and includes information (data) such as the author's name, copyright, and keywords associated with it.
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Metadata
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In the ____, you can find information such as when the image was created, last modified, current size, resolution, bit depth, and color mode in the Metadata panel.
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Bridge
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Sometimes metadata is stored separately in a ____.
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Sidecar file
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This panel identifies files based on their content.
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Keywords panel
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Good project management requires periodic ____ and ____.
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Revisiting and revision
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A project may suffer from ____, a condition to be avoided in which a project seems to have lost its way.
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Scope creep
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To use part or all of one image that already exists.
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Repurposing
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Established settings that perform specific tasks.
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Presets
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Predesigned files that have been developed by others and generally have a specific outcome.
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Templates
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The panel which displays all the individual layers in an open file.
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Layers
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A section within an image that can be manipulated independently.
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Layer
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Layers can be ____ from within the Layers panel to build a short list of layers. Organized by Kind, Name, Effect, Mode, Attribute, Color, Smart Object, Selected, or by the five preset filtering buttons.
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Filtered
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You can ____ or ____ a layer.
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Show or hide
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The record of events in the History panel are called ____.
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States
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The order in which the eye understands what it is seeing. In graphic design, this is used to manipulate the reader's eye to see information in a particular location.
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Visual hierarchy
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Image resolution is determined by the number of ____ that are printed on a page.
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pixels (picture elements) per inch (ppi)
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Pixel dimensions (the number of pixels along the ____ and ____ of a bitmap image) determine the amount of detail in an image.
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Height and width
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____ resolution images show greater detail and more subtle color transitions than ____ resolution images.
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High, low
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Device resolution or printer resolution is measured by the ____ produced by printers.
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Ink dots per inch (dpi)
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____, or line screen, is the number of printer dots or halftone cells per inch used to print grayscale images or color separations and is measured in lines per inch (lpi).
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Screen frequency
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The current zoom percentage appears in the document's ____, on the ____ panel, and on the ____.
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Title bar, Navigator, status bar
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You can switch to Bridge and then choose to send output to a ____ or ____.
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PDF (portable document format) or Web Gallery
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The direction in which an image appears on the page.
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Orientation
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In ____ orientation, the image is printed with the shorter edges of the paper at the top and bottom.
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Portrait
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In ____ orientation, the image is printed with the longer edges of the paper at the top and bottom
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Landscape
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A printed image is measured in ____ or ____.
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Inches or centimeters
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On a video monitor, the image size is measured on the screen in ____.
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Pixels (picture elements)
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The ____ text box allows you to enter text that can be printed with the image.
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Description
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In a dialog box, the user can move from field to field by pressing ____.
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Tab
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An accurate representation of how an image will look when it has been printed.
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Soft proof
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Which module allows you to create PDF presentations and Web galleries?
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Adobe Output Module
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Using Bridge you can create a ____ presentation. Such a presentation can be viewed full screen on any computer monitor, or in Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader as a PDF file.
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PDF
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You can also create a PDF from Photoshop File on the menu bar, then clicking Print. Select Adobe ____ from the Print list arrow in the Printer Setup section of the Photoshop Print Settings dialog box, make any other necessary selections, and then click Print.
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PDF
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This is an important design principle that uses opposing elements to produce an intensified effect in an image, page, or publication.
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Contrast
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A colorful box behind an object that makes it stand out.
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Matte
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Power User Shortcuts—Open Help
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F1
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Power User Shortcuts—Zoom In
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Ctrl + +
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Power User Shortcuts—Zoom Out
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Ctrl + -
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