Raster Final Exam Study Guide

Adjustment layer
o a group of a super useful, non-destructive image editing tools that add color and
tonal adjustments to your image without permanently changing its pixels. With
the adjustment layers, you can edit and discard your adjustments or restore your
original image at any time.

Brightness/Contrast
o Brightness refers to the overall lightness or darkness of the image. Contrast is the
difference in brightness between objects or regions.
Canvas
o the area in which you will create and/or modify images.
Channel selection
o Using a channel to adjust your colors and load your selection with as much detail
as needed for your selection
Color channel
o grayscale images that store different types of information, some are RGB or
CMYK
Compression
o Reduction of the amount of data required to re-create an original file, graphic or
movie. Compression is used to reduce the transmission time of media and
application files across the web. It is also used to conserve space on electronic
media, such as CDs, when volumes of files must be stored together.
Contact sheet
o A sheet with all the images youve used for a composite
Destructive
o a form of editing that alters the actual image.
Hue/saturation
o Hue another word for color. Saturation (chroma) the intensity or purity of a
hue. Lightness (value) the relative degree of black or white mixed with a given
hue. Temperature the perceived warmth or coolness of a color
Layer mask
o You can add a mask to a layer and use the mask to hide portions of the layer and
reveal the layers below. Masking layers is a valuable compositing technique for
combining multiple photos into a single image or for removing a person or object
from a photo.
Levels
o a tool in Photoshop and other image editing programs which can move and
stretch the brightness levels of an image histogram
Liquify filter
o It will allow you to push and pull pixels any way you'd like.
Magic wand selection
 o The Magic Wand tool allows you to select an area of an image based on its color.
Marquee selection
o Selection tool based on tone and color
Mask or masking
o The process of blocking out areas in a computer graphic, usually to define areas
of
o transparency (sort of like a "stencil").
Non-destructive
o Editing that does not damage the original photo in any way
Smart layer
o Smart Objects are layers that contain image data from raster or vector images,
such as Photoshop or Illustrator files. Smart Objects preserve an image's source
content with all its original characteristics, enabling you to perform
nondestructive editing to the layer.
Transform
o Set or move the reference point for a transformation. Scale, rotate, skew, distort,
apply perspective, or warp. Flip or rotate precisely. Repeat a transformation.
Duplicate an item when transforming it.
Transform warp
o Allows you to warp the image in any image or perspective while you move it

1. To disable a Layer Mask without deleting it from the layer, you would do what? (describe
the process). Disable Layer Mask. The "Disable Layer Mask" command lets you turn off a
layer mask temporarily, rather than delete it. To enable the disabled mask, apply the
"Enable Layer Mask" command. Or hold down [Shift] key and click the mask thumbnail
in the Layers palette (screenshot).
2. What is the difference between Aliasing and Anti-Aliasing? Anti-Aliasing: A technique
for reducing the jagged appearance of bitmapped graphics, usually by inserting pixels of
adjacent colors that visually blend at the boundaries. Aliasing: is an effect that causes
different signals to become indistinguishable (or aliases of one another) when sampled. It
also refers to the distortion or artifact that results when the signal reconstructed from
samples is different from the original continuous signal.

Example: Left, Alias- Right, Anti-Alias

3. Which selection method is the quickest way to select a solid area of color (like a clear sky
or a big solid red shape)? Magic Wand Tool
4. When preparing a channel mask to select hair, why would you use the levels adjustment
on the channel copy you are using to create your mask? To make the channel as dark as
possible to separate your background from the subjects hair to make it easier to mask out
5. Why would you use an adjustment layer in the layers panel instead of using the
adjustments in the top menu? What are the advantages of an adjustment layer? Going to the
panel will adjust the layer itself that needs to be adjusted, as opposed to the whole image as
you would go on the menu. Some of the advantages of having an adjustment layer is being
able to color match your image, or to get it to look the way you want for brightness if it is
too dark or to adjust it in levels.
6. Why would you use a smart layer? Smart Objects preserve an image's source content
with all its original characteristics, enabling you to perform nondestructive editing to the
layer.
7. Which selection method is best for selecting hair, neon, lightening, trees and other images
that have very complicated or glowy edges? Channel selection
8. Why should you not do general text in Photoshop? When should you create text in
Photoshop? General text does not hit the audience as well as a special text that would fit
your piece better, and you should create your own text when your project requires it to fit
or you cant use someone elses text for commercial use
9. What happens if you continue to save a jpeg over and over as a jpeg? Why? You lose
pixels and your resolution goes down each time, because since JPG is a lossy format- each
time that you save it you end up losing data each time you do.
10. For what are PNG files best suited? Lossless photos, or to keep detail in a picture and
to layer over things
11. Which file formats for the web have lossy compression? JPEG, GIF
12. Which file formats for the web have lossless compression? PNG
13. Which file formats work best for photographic color images for the web? GIF
14. What do you have to do to a text layer before you can paint on it? Rasterize it