PHOTOSHOP CERTIFICATION CORE EXAM MANUAL 2025
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Pattern - ✔✔Increases visual excitement by enriching surface interest using
repetition
✔✔Unity - ✔✔Exists when your elements agree !important!
✔✔Symmetrical Balance - ✔✔All sides equal
✔✔Horizontal symmetry - ✔✔The left side of a single point and right side are mirrored
✔✔Radial Symmetry - ✔✔Equal length from a center point e.g. rings created by
dropping a pebble in a puddle
✔✔Asymmetrical Balance - ✔✔Using similar objects to create balance
✔✔Asymmetry - ✔✔Placing objects off center or heavy to one side of a point to create a
weighted side
✔✔Proximity - ✔✔How close objects are arranged
✔✔Rule of Thirds - ✔✔Guideline of an image being divided into three horizontal and
three vertical sections, creating focal points where the lines cross
✔✔Color Model - ✔✔Mixing base colors to create a spectrum of colors
✔✔Gamut - ✔✔total spectrum a given model can create
✔✔Additive Method - ✔✔starts with no color, or black, colors are added to create final
color.
✔✔Subtractive Method - ✔✔Starts with all color or white, colors are removed to create
final color
✔✔Raster Image - ✔✔made of dots or pixels, each pixel has one specific color to create
an image, also called bitmap
✔✔Bitmap - ✔✔In raster images, each pixel is mapped on a coordinate grid
✔✔Bit Depth - ✔✔Binary measurement for color. Minimum standard for computers is a
bit depth of 8...28= 256
✔✔True Color - ✔✔Bit depth of 24: 224= 16,777,216 colors, more than the eye can see
, ✔✔Deep Color - ✔✔supported in windows 7, 48-bit depth 1 mil + colors
✔✔Alpha Channel - ✔✔varies the opacity of the color. Transparent -> Full opacity
✔✔Masking color - ✔✔single shade of color that can be set to transparent
✔✔Vector Image - ✔✔images composed of lines, curves and fills. Do not store color
value and pixel location. image displayed based on a mathematical equation. Can be
resized infinitely without ruining the clarity. small file size ta
✔✔Bitmap Tracing - ✔✔software to convert raster to vector, traces around similar color
zones to create closed regions
✔✔Optimizing - ✔✔applying the most appropriate resolution and image file
compression to achieve the smallest file size for the image quality needed
✔✔Compression - ✔✔uses mathematical formulas to approximate the location and
color of each pixel to reduce file size
✔✔Lossy compression algorithm - ✔✔compresses image without keeping clarity
✔✔Lossless compression algorithm - ✔✔compresses image and keeps clarity
✔✔Dithers - ✔✔when enlarging and image causes the existing pixels to spread out
✔✔Interpolation - ✔✔refining space between pixels by taking the average color of a one
of pixels and assigning it to a pixel
✔✔Dots/pixels per inch - ✔✔Measure of pixels along the horizontal axis of an image
multiplied by the amount of pixels on the vertical axis
✔✔Resampled - ✔✔During resizing of an image, creating a new image w/out reducing
the resolution
✔✔Bicubic Reduction - ✔✔optimized program for removing pixels
✔✔Bicubic Enlargement - ✔✔Optimized program for creating pixels
✔✔What are the lossless image formats? - ✔✔GIF, PNG-8, PNG-24,
✔✔What is a lossy image format? - ✔✔JPEG
✔✔What are vector image formats? - ✔✔EPS, AL, CGM
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Pattern - ✔✔Increases visual excitement by enriching surface interest using
repetition
✔✔Unity - ✔✔Exists when your elements agree !important!
✔✔Symmetrical Balance - ✔✔All sides equal
✔✔Horizontal symmetry - ✔✔The left side of a single point and right side are mirrored
✔✔Radial Symmetry - ✔✔Equal length from a center point e.g. rings created by
dropping a pebble in a puddle
✔✔Asymmetrical Balance - ✔✔Using similar objects to create balance
✔✔Asymmetry - ✔✔Placing objects off center or heavy to one side of a point to create a
weighted side
✔✔Proximity - ✔✔How close objects are arranged
✔✔Rule of Thirds - ✔✔Guideline of an image being divided into three horizontal and
three vertical sections, creating focal points where the lines cross
✔✔Color Model - ✔✔Mixing base colors to create a spectrum of colors
✔✔Gamut - ✔✔total spectrum a given model can create
✔✔Additive Method - ✔✔starts with no color, or black, colors are added to create final
color.
✔✔Subtractive Method - ✔✔Starts with all color or white, colors are removed to create
final color
✔✔Raster Image - ✔✔made of dots or pixels, each pixel has one specific color to create
an image, also called bitmap
✔✔Bitmap - ✔✔In raster images, each pixel is mapped on a coordinate grid
✔✔Bit Depth - ✔✔Binary measurement for color. Minimum standard for computers is a
bit depth of 8...28= 256
✔✔True Color - ✔✔Bit depth of 24: 224= 16,777,216 colors, more than the eye can see
, ✔✔Deep Color - ✔✔supported in windows 7, 48-bit depth 1 mil + colors
✔✔Alpha Channel - ✔✔varies the opacity of the color. Transparent -> Full opacity
✔✔Masking color - ✔✔single shade of color that can be set to transparent
✔✔Vector Image - ✔✔images composed of lines, curves and fills. Do not store color
value and pixel location. image displayed based on a mathematical equation. Can be
resized infinitely without ruining the clarity. small file size ta
✔✔Bitmap Tracing - ✔✔software to convert raster to vector, traces around similar color
zones to create closed regions
✔✔Optimizing - ✔✔applying the most appropriate resolution and image file
compression to achieve the smallest file size for the image quality needed
✔✔Compression - ✔✔uses mathematical formulas to approximate the location and
color of each pixel to reduce file size
✔✔Lossy compression algorithm - ✔✔compresses image without keeping clarity
✔✔Lossless compression algorithm - ✔✔compresses image and keeps clarity
✔✔Dithers - ✔✔when enlarging and image causes the existing pixels to spread out
✔✔Interpolation - ✔✔refining space between pixels by taking the average color of a one
of pixels and assigning it to a pixel
✔✔Dots/pixels per inch - ✔✔Measure of pixels along the horizontal axis of an image
multiplied by the amount of pixels on the vertical axis
✔✔Resampled - ✔✔During resizing of an image, creating a new image w/out reducing
the resolution
✔✔Bicubic Reduction - ✔✔optimized program for removing pixels
✔✔Bicubic Enlargement - ✔✔Optimized program for creating pixels
✔✔What are the lossless image formats? - ✔✔GIF, PNG-8, PNG-24,
✔✔What is a lossy image format? - ✔✔JPEG
✔✔What are vector image formats? - ✔✔EPS, AL, CGM
