Photoshop Deck 1

Question 1

Toolbar

Answer 1

Houses Photoshop Tools

Question 2

Options Bar

Answer 2

Context sensitive - whatever tool is active will change the options bar. The icon on the left will always show you the active tool.

Question 3

Menu bar

Answer 3

The bar that allows you to Save to Edit an image.

Question 4

Workspace Settings

Answer 4

Allows you to reset or save your arrangements of panels.

Question 5

Adjustment Panel

Answer 5

Allows you to non-destructively edit and image.

Question 6

Layers Panel

Answer 6

Allows you to organize layers, layer groups and layer effects in an image.

Question 7

What is the shortcut for Edit -> Preferences -> General?

Answer 7

ctrl + k (Windows)

cmd + k (Mac)

Question 8

What can you do in the interface preferences?

Answer 8

Change UI Language, the UI Font Size and the UI scaling.

Question 9

In the File Handling Preferences, what interval should you do automatic save recovery?

Answer 9

Every 5 minutes.

Question 10

What four file types can you export your work into when using the Quick Export format preferences?

Answer 10

PNG, JPG, GIF, SVG

Question 11

What do FNG files offer that JPG files do not?

Answer 11

Transparency

Question 12

What adds the Copyright and Contact info to a project?

Answer 12

Metadata

Question 13

What is recommended if you experience weird crashes or strange visuals for the video card in Photoshop.

Answer 13

Turn off Graphic Processor

Question 14

What is the best resolution for print?

Answer 14

300 dpi

Question 15

What is the learn panel?

Answer 15

A set of tutorials

Question 16

A designer in the real world works how?

Answer 16

Designers work visually and not by specific numbers.

Question 17

What indicates where the panel will be placed when moving it around?

Answer 17

A blue line

Question 18

What indicates which panel group will be joining?

Answer 18

A blue box

Question 19

How do you zoom to 100% quickly?

Answer 19

Double-click on the zoom tool.

Question 20

How do you fit a document to window?

Answer 20

Double-click on the hand tool.

Question 21

What do you need to do to temporarily switch to the hand tool to “drag” your image around within the document window?

Answer 21

Hold the spacebar

Question 22

What keys on the keyboard changes the brush size?

Answer 22

The left and right square brackets [ ] change the brush size (left smaller, right larger)

Question 23

Describe how the clone stamp works

Answer 23

Alt+Click where you want the brush to copy from. Then paint with the tool and it copies from your original location to where you want to paint.

Question 24

What is the difference between destructive and non-destructive editing?

Answer 24

Destructive editing changes the original image. Example: Going to Image -> Adjustments. The eraser tool also makes destructive edits. The adjustment panel makes non-destructive changes. Does not change the pixels.

Question 25

When adjusting elements in your design, what is the best practice?

Answer 25

Look at the whole image when adjusting. It's easy to focus on just one section and miss changes elsewhere in the image.

Question 26

How do you turn off the adjustment layer?

Answer 26

Click on the eyeball (also called the toggle).

Question 27

What is opacity?

Answer 27

How visible something is. Opacity is the opposite of transparency so 0 opcity is 100% transparency.

Question 28

What is the default file for Quick Export?

Answer 28

PNG

Question 29

What do you change as the default for your exported files?

Answer 29

Metadata to copyright and contact info. This will include any info you've included and if there is no info it will just be empty.

Question 30

It's best practice to check what option when saving for the web?

Answer 30

Convert to sRGB

Question 31

What Metadata gets recorded when a picture is taken with most smart phones?

Answer 31

The GPS location of where the picture was taken.

Question 32

If a preview doesn't show in your finder, how should you view your photos and see the metadata?

Answer 32

Adobe Bridge

Question 33

What are RAW files?

Answer 33

RAW files are like "unprocessed" film from a camera and they are very large files. When you develop them, the files get smaller because it throws away any information you can't see.

Question 34

What images are best to get from the client?

Answer 34

RAW

Question 35

What option allows you to fill a selection using the surround pixels in an image?

Answer 35

Edit -> Fill -> Content Aware

Question 36

What is the shortcut to remove the "marching ants"? (a selection)

Answer 36

Ctrl + D (Windows) | Cmd + D (Mac