Photoshop
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Review Questions
- What are the five key decisions involved in creating a new image?
- What is the file extension for Photoshop files?
- Why edit images in 24-bit colour depth if ultimately they will be 8-bit images on the Internet?
- Why would you use the Magnification/Navigation controls?
- What does double-clicking the Zoom tool do?
- What happens when you hold down the space bar in Photoshop while the pointer is over an image window?
- What is a snapshot in the History panel?
- What is a state in the History Panel?
- If you delete a History state with other History states below it, what happens to those states?
- Does the image window display the physical dimensions of an image?
- How is opening a vector file in Photoshop different from opening a bitmap file?
- What does anti-aliased mean?
- What three attributes of an image can be changed using the Image Size dialog?
- What is the redistribution of pixels as a result of changing the pixels dimensions called?
- What is an interpolation method?
- State which interpolation method is the most accurate: Bicubic, Bilinear, or Nearest Neighbour.
- What does the Document Size section of the Image Size dialog refer to?
- Name four ways that you can restore an earlier version of your image.
- Which command allows you to make a copy of your image in which you can retain separate layers, masks and alpha channels?
- What tools are available to store comments within a .psd file?
- What is rasterizing?
Bonus Questions
- What could be wrong if in the Open dialog box you do not see the file name of the image that you want to open, given that you are in the correct folder or directory?
- Describe why displaying the scratch disk sizes in the new image window may be useful.
- How can you hide the Photoshop interface completely and view your image alone against a black background?
- Name four ways to set the magnification of an image so that it fills the available work space.
- When scanning an image that you will be editing in Photoshop, what is the recommended resolution for scanning?
- How can you display two copies of your image document so that you can view them at different magnifications while you're editing?
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