Adobe Photoshop exam practice/20 Q’s and
A’s
Kerning - -Controls the amount of space between characters and can effect
several characters, a word, or an entire paragraph
- Sans serif font - -Fonts that do not have a tail, or stroke, at the end of
some characters
- Font - -A set of characters with a similar appearance, size, and color
- Points - -Way of measuring type size, equivalent 1/72 of an inch
- Type - -Text. You can change its appearance by using different fonts and
colors
- Character panel - -Helps you manually or automatically control type
properties
- Baseline - -An invisible line where type resets or sits
- Proportional spacing - -Each character takes up a different amount of
space depending on its width
- Rasterized - -Converted into a bit mapped object
- Layer styles - -Effects which can be applied to a type or image layer
- Because type is used sparingly, what should you keep in mind (other than
appearance) when using it? - -It should be limited, direct, and to the point
- When do you use serif fonts and when do you use San serif fonts? - -You
use serif fonts when you are doing text passages and San serif fonts are
used in headlines
- When deciding on a font size, how can you compare point size to inches? -
-One inch is equivalent to 72 points or 6 picas therefore one pica is
equivalent to 12 points.
- If you wanted to drop the first letter below the rest of the letters on a line
what would you adjust and where is this found? - -You would need to use the
baseline shift which you can find in the character panel.
- How can you tell if a layer has a style applied to it? - -The indicates layer
effects icon (fx) appears in that layer when it is active.
A’s
Kerning - -Controls the amount of space between characters and can effect
several characters, a word, or an entire paragraph
- Sans serif font - -Fonts that do not have a tail, or stroke, at the end of
some characters
- Font - -A set of characters with a similar appearance, size, and color
- Points - -Way of measuring type size, equivalent 1/72 of an inch
- Type - -Text. You can change its appearance by using different fonts and
colors
- Character panel - -Helps you manually or automatically control type
properties
- Baseline - -An invisible line where type resets or sits
- Proportional spacing - -Each character takes up a different amount of
space depending on its width
- Rasterized - -Converted into a bit mapped object
- Layer styles - -Effects which can be applied to a type or image layer
- Because type is used sparingly, what should you keep in mind (other than
appearance) when using it? - -It should be limited, direct, and to the point
- When do you use serif fonts and when do you use San serif fonts? - -You
use serif fonts when you are doing text passages and San serif fonts are
used in headlines
- When deciding on a font size, how can you compare point size to inches? -
-One inch is equivalent to 72 points or 6 picas therefore one pica is
equivalent to 12 points.
- If you wanted to drop the first letter below the rest of the letters on a line
what would you adjust and where is this found? - -You would need to use the
baseline shift which you can find in the character panel.
- How can you tell if a layer has a style applied to it? - -The indicates layer
effects icon (fx) appears in that layer when it is active.
