Photoshop Vocabulary

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1. adjustments Create this on an image in the layers panel to 16. File size The digital size of an image, proportional to the
layer make visual changes such as making a photo pixel dimensions of the image. To find this,
lighter or darker, sharpening or adjusting the multiply width in pixels by height in pixels.
color balance or hue.
17. filters photoshop commands that can significantly
2. Application A bar at the top of the workspace that contains alter an image's appearance
bar Photoshop's menus and several other
18. Flatten Merge all layers in an image using a single
commonly-used tools to help you manage your
command.
workspace.
19. Font A named set of text and numeric characters that
3. background Color that is revealed by the Eraser Tool when
share the same look and feel.
color it is used on a layer that has transparency
locked; It is white by default and is use to make 20. foreground The color applied by painting tools in
gradient fills and fill in areas of an image that color Photoshop; Black by default and is used to paint,
have been erased fill, and apply a border to a selection;

4. brightness the measurement of a relative lightness or 21. gradient a blend of colors used to fill a selection of a layer
darkness of a color; measured in a percentage or an entire layer (same as gradient fill)
from 0% (black) to 100% (white) 22. grayscale can contain up to 256 shades of gray, assigning
5. burn use these to darken parts of your image where images brightness value from 0 (black) to 255 (white) to
you click and drag this tool. You can set the each pixels (2 words)
exposure amount and choose highlights, 23. grayscale a specialized color mode that uses up to 256
midtones or shadows in the options bar. mode shades of gray, assigning a brightness from 0
6. Clone Stamp A retouching tool that allows a user to copy a (black) to 255 (white) to each pixel
tool selected area and paste it over another area to 24. healing a retouching tool that allows a user to copy an
cover blemishes or other problems in the brush area and drag it across another area of an image
photo. to mix pixels and blend color tones to cover
7. CMYK a color mode used for four-color printing. It blemishes.
has a maximum of 16.7 million colors. 25. History shows you all the moves you have done in the
8. color the adjustment of the intensity of the colors in panel current session of Photoshop. It takes the
balance an image. multiple-undo system and puts it in a list you
can pick from.
9. Color mode determines the color model used to display and
print images. CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow, 26. hue the color reflected from or transmitted through
black); RGB (red, green, blue) and Grayscale an object, expressed as a degree (betw. 0 and
are this. 360) and identified by a color name

10. color picker a feature that lets you choose a color from a 27. Icon A picture or symbol that represents the selected
color spectrum or numerically to define a tool.
custom color 28. inverse An option in the Select menu that allows the
11. Crop To cut off selection user to select the background of an image, then
use that selection to create a new selection with
12. dodge use this tool to lighten parts of your image the inverse portion of the image (the part not
where you click and drag this tool. You can set originally selected
the exposure amount and choose highlights,
midtones or shadows in the options bar. 29. JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG or
.jpg) is an image file format that supports
13. duotone a color mode that uses two colors, combining millions of colors and works best for
highlights and midtones to a black & white photographs and other images with continuous
image while allowing the user to choose the tones.
second color, so that it is the chosen color and
white 30. kerning the space between each letter

14. Fastening Points created by the Magnetic Lasso Tool that 31. layer mask An overlay of a layer that allows you to make
Points hold the selection border to the edges in the visual changes to the layer without actually
image. changing the layer itself. While in this, you can
paint white to reveal additional parts of the layer
15. Feathering A fading-out effect created at the edges of a
or paint black to conceal.
selection.
32. Layers Parts of Photoshop file that keeps different parts 51. saturation (aka "chroma") the strength or purity of the color,
of the design separate from each other. representing the amount of gray in proportion to
hue; is measured in a percentage from 0% (gray)
33. Layer Special effects such as drop shadows, beveled
to 100% (fully saturated)
Styles edges, and colorful outlines that can quickly be
applied to an entire layer. 52. Scale To make larger or smaller.
34. leading the space between the lines of text. 53. Sharpen increases the contrast of adjacent pixels and can
filter focus a blurry image
35. luminosity the light and dark values within an image when
you convert it from color to grayscale 54. smart completely preserves the image data so that all
object editing is nondestructive
36. magic a selection tool that selects an area based on
wand similarly colored pixels, and may be adjusted for 55. stroke emphasizing an image by placing a border
color tolerance. around its edges
37. magnetic A selection tool that creates selections 56. Styles A variety of effects, such as drop shadows and
lasso automatically by clinging to edges of contrasting beveled edges, applied to text or shapes.
objects as you click the edges
57. swatches a visual display of colors that you can choose
38. Menus Lists of commands that are related to each other. panel from

39. Options Located just below the Application bar. When 58. TIFF The Tagged Image File Format saves an image
bar you click on any tool in the Tools panel, the without any compression.
tool's options (or settings) appear here. 59. tracking evenly adding or subtracting space between
40. Panels Small windows that contain a variety of related letters in a word or group of words
settings. Main ones used include: Layers, 60. Unsharp Photoshop effect that helps to sharpen a blurry
Channels, and History. mask image by masking the unsharp part. It is in the
41. pantone a color-matching system that is used to Filter menu.
standardize colors used in digital and printed
images.
42. PDF Portable Document File enables the printing and
viewing of documents. Tjhe document appears
the same regardless of which operating system or
computer is used.
43. pixels dots that make up an image

44. PNG an image file format that supports grayscale, 256

color, true color images and alpha transparency.
45. polygonal A selection tool useful for creating a selection
lasso that is made up of straight lines
46. PSD Photoshop document. These files contain all the
layers an artist creates so that each layer can be
changed or edited later.
47. Quick selects portions of an image based on similarity
selection of textures or solid blocks of similar color.
48. Red eye a retouching tool in Photoshop that allows a user
tool to neutralize red tones by blending them with the
eye color of a person in an image.
49. Resolution Quality level of an image. Measured in pixels per
inch (ppi) or dots per inch (dpi)
50. RGB a color mode that is popular for computer
graphics and has a maximum of 16.7 million
colors.