ADOBE PHOTOSHOP STUDY GUIDE 2026 QUESTIONS AND
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✔✔Channel - ✔✔An optical depiction for each of the colors of light (red, green & blue).
✔✔Character Panel - ✔✔A Photoshop CC panel that provides the user with the ability
to change text attributes
✔✔DCS - ✔✔Digital Color Separation is a print raster-based file format that is used to
save print files. It is used less than other print raster formats.
✔✔Delete Cropped Pixels - ✔✔An option that will remove excess pixels once an image
is cropped.
✔✔Derivative Work - ✔✔A work or creation that is created from or based on a
preexisting creation.
✔✔DICOM - ✔✔A medical industry standard for storing digital imaging and
communications in medicine
✔✔Digital Camera - ✔✔A camera device used for recording and storing digital images.
✔✔DNG - ✔✔An Adobe open image format used for manipulating digital images.
(Digital Negative)
✔✔Dodge Tool - ✔✔A blending tool used to reduce or increase the amount of exposure
on a specified area.
✔✔Duotone - ✔✔A color mode that uses two colors
✔✔DWG - ✔✔A binary file format that is vector-based. It is used to save vector-based
files.
✔✔Embed - ✔✔A process that saves content as part of a publication.
✔✔EPS - ✔✔A file extension for a vector-based graphics file format. (Encapsulated
PostScript)
✔✔Eyedropper Tool - ✔✔A color selection tool which gives the user the ability to
choose a color by grabbing it from an image.
✔✔Fair Use of Copyright - ✔✔A copyright policy which implies parts of copyrighted
works can be used without permission provided the use is reasonable and does not
adversely affect the profit that may be expected by the copyrighted owner.
, ✔✔Feathering - ✔✔A Photoshop CC tool used to smooth the edges of a selection by
building a transition boundary between the selection and its surrounding pixels.
✔✔Filter - ✔✔A tool used in Photoshop CC to enhance and change the composition of
an image.
✔✔Fill - ✔✔The background of a specific object used to fill graphic effects in Photoshop
CC.
✔✔Fill Opacity - ✔✔An option that allows for the opacity adjustment of pixels painted on
a layer without affecting the opacity of any effects applied to the layer.
✔✔Flattened image - ✔✔Also known as a background. All layers are collapsed into one
single layer.
✔✔Floating Panel - ✔✔A panel that can be moved anywhere within the workspace. It is
not docked to one area.
✔✔Free Transform - ✔✔A tool used to for adjusting a selected images scale with the
mouse.
✔✔Fuzziness - ✔✔A feature which allows more tones to be included in an adjustment.
✔✔GIF - ✔✔A bitmap or raster file format used by the World Wide Web. Limited to 256
colors.
✔✔Gradient Map - ✔✔A feature which maps the tones in an image to a selected
gradient.
✔✔Grayscale - ✔✔A color mode with a maximum of 256 colors that renders an image
in a range of grays from white to black.
✔✔Guide - ✔✔A Photoshop layout tool that is used to help a user to align or position
properties of a document.
✔✔Histogram - ✔✔A graph which depicts all the different tones of the image.
✔✔History Brush Tool - ✔✔A tool that restores an image to its original state by painting
in the original information.
✔✔Intellectual Property - ✔✔An idea
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✔✔Channel - ✔✔An optical depiction for each of the colors of light (red, green & blue).
✔✔Character Panel - ✔✔A Photoshop CC panel that provides the user with the ability
to change text attributes
✔✔DCS - ✔✔Digital Color Separation is a print raster-based file format that is used to
save print files. It is used less than other print raster formats.
✔✔Delete Cropped Pixels - ✔✔An option that will remove excess pixels once an image
is cropped.
✔✔Derivative Work - ✔✔A work or creation that is created from or based on a
preexisting creation.
✔✔DICOM - ✔✔A medical industry standard for storing digital imaging and
communications in medicine
✔✔Digital Camera - ✔✔A camera device used for recording and storing digital images.
✔✔DNG - ✔✔An Adobe open image format used for manipulating digital images.
(Digital Negative)
✔✔Dodge Tool - ✔✔A blending tool used to reduce or increase the amount of exposure
on a specified area.
✔✔Duotone - ✔✔A color mode that uses two colors
✔✔DWG - ✔✔A binary file format that is vector-based. It is used to save vector-based
files.
✔✔Embed - ✔✔A process that saves content as part of a publication.
✔✔EPS - ✔✔A file extension for a vector-based graphics file format. (Encapsulated
PostScript)
✔✔Eyedropper Tool - ✔✔A color selection tool which gives the user the ability to
choose a color by grabbing it from an image.
✔✔Fair Use of Copyright - ✔✔A copyright policy which implies parts of copyrighted
works can be used without permission provided the use is reasonable and does not
adversely affect the profit that may be expected by the copyrighted owner.
, ✔✔Feathering - ✔✔A Photoshop CC tool used to smooth the edges of a selection by
building a transition boundary between the selection and its surrounding pixels.
✔✔Filter - ✔✔A tool used in Photoshop CC to enhance and change the composition of
an image.
✔✔Fill - ✔✔The background of a specific object used to fill graphic effects in Photoshop
CC.
✔✔Fill Opacity - ✔✔An option that allows for the opacity adjustment of pixels painted on
a layer without affecting the opacity of any effects applied to the layer.
✔✔Flattened image - ✔✔Also known as a background. All layers are collapsed into one
single layer.
✔✔Floating Panel - ✔✔A panel that can be moved anywhere within the workspace. It is
not docked to one area.
✔✔Free Transform - ✔✔A tool used to for adjusting a selected images scale with the
mouse.
✔✔Fuzziness - ✔✔A feature which allows more tones to be included in an adjustment.
✔✔GIF - ✔✔A bitmap or raster file format used by the World Wide Web. Limited to 256
colors.
✔✔Gradient Map - ✔✔A feature which maps the tones in an image to a selected
gradient.
✔✔Grayscale - ✔✔A color mode with a maximum of 256 colors that renders an image
in a range of grays from white to black.
✔✔Guide - ✔✔A Photoshop layout tool that is used to help a user to align or position
properties of a document.
✔✔Histogram - ✔✔A graph which depicts all the different tones of the image.
✔✔History Brush Tool - ✔✔A tool that restores an image to its original state by painting
in the original information.
✔✔Intellectual Property - ✔✔An idea
