Photoshop Quiz Answers

Normally, to add to a selection, we need to hold down the Shift key on the keyboard to switch the tool to its "Add to selection" mode, but the Quick Selection Tool is different. It's already in "Add to selection" mode by default, indicated by this small icon displayed in the center of the tool's cursor. Which icon below displays to the illustrator that add to the selection is already on?

+ (Plus sign)

When you want to add a library of styles to your existing Styles library, possibly one you found and like from the web, you need to load a file with an .asl extension. Similarly, when you want to add to your Brushes library, you need a file with this extension?

.abr

What is a DNG file?

A Digital Negative file

Why would you convert a standard layer to a Smart Object?

A Smart Object can be resized indefinitely without losing resolution due to resampling

What is a neutral?

A neutral is a gray, or shade of gray in an image

In order to create a brush tip from an image, you have to?

Choose Edit > Define Brush Preset

Which tool or tools can you use to remove unwanted objects in your videos in photoshop

Clone Stamp Pattern Stamp Healing Brush Spot Healing Brush

What is the keyboard shortcut for Deselect All?

Cmd (Mac) Crtl (PC) + D

Which is NOT a feature in the Brushes option panel?

Color Themes

The term often used when your image has a color bias or is unnaturally tinted is?

Color cast

When resizing an image, and you want to scale the width and height independently of each other, click this icon to unlink them?

Constrain Aspect Ratio/Constrain Proportions

The Patch tool is used to remove unwanted image elements. Which option in the Patch tool synthesizes nearby content for seamless blending with the surrounding content?

Content-Aware

Use this tool to select and move a part of a picture. The image is recomposed, and the hole left behind is filled using matching elements from the picture. You do not need to carry out intensive edits involving layers and complex selections. Which tool will recompose and fill in the hole left behind?

Content-Aware Move

Which tool converts anchor points from smooth points used in curves to corner points used in straight lines?

Convert Point Tool

The Image Processor converts and processes multiple files. Unlike the Batch command, the Image Processor lets you process files without first creating an action. Which of the answers below is something you cannot do in the Image Processor?

Convert a set of files to either JPEG, PSD, or TIFF format; or convert files simultaneously to all three formats. Process a set of camera raw files using the same options. Resize images to fit within specified pixel dimensions. Embed a color profile or convert a set of files to sRGB and save them as JPEG images for the web. Include copyright metadata in the converted images.

In order to make non-destructive adjustments with the Camera Raw Filter you first need to ?

Convert your layer into a Smart Filter/Object

To create a style without first selecting text, click this icon at the bottom of the Paragraph Styles panel. To edit a style without applying it to text, select an image layer, such as the Background. Which icon should you choose to create a new paragraph style?

Create New Style icon

The keyboard shortcut for deselecting your selection is?

Ctrl + D (PC) Cmd + D (Mac)

When you want to edit layer masks, you always use the default colors of Photoshop. What is the quick keyboard shortcut for default colors?

D

Which vector selection tool is used for selecting and editing individual anchor points directly?

Direct Selection Tool

Which menu has your Color Settings?

Edit

For spell checking in Photoshop go to?

Edit > Check Spelling

Which is not a way you can create a Smart Object layer?

Edit > Convert to Smart Object

After you place type in your 3D layer, which becomes a smart object, which option do you need to use in order to change your type?

Edit Source

Which term is associated with 3d text and/or imaging?

Extrusion

It's always a good policy to make as many adjustments in Photoshop as possible, the image will only get better with multiple edits to it. True/False

False

Photoshop does not allow you to modify a path after you have made a vector mask from it. In fact it is locked. True,False

False

Found in the Refine Edge & Select menu, this feature softens the edges of your selections?

Feather

Which menu has the Camera Raw Filter in Photoshop?

Filter

Which answer below describes the ratio of width to height in the dimensions of an image? For example, DV NTSC has a ratio of 4:3 (or 4 width by 3 height) and a typical widescreen frame has a ratio of 16:9. Some video cameras can record various frame aspect ratios. Many cameras that have a widescreen mode use the 16:9 aspect ratio.

Frame Aspect Ratio

What is NOT a light type in Photoshop's 3D panel?

Global light

Which is not a way you can create a layer in Photoshop?

Go to the Image menu > Layer > New layer

What answer below is used to mark a critical point in time during your animation process in Photoshop's timeline?

Keyframe

Some commands and tools—such as filter effects and painting tools—are not available for type layers. You must rasterize the type before applying the command or using the tool. Rasterizing converts the type layer into a normal layer and makes its contents uneditable as text. A warning message appears if you choose a command or tool that requires a rasterized layer. Some warning messages provide an OK button you can click to rasterize the layer. In order to rasterize a type layer go to?

Layer > Rasterize > Type or Type> Rasterize Type Layer

How do you replace the contents of a Smart Object?

Layer > Smart Object > Replace Contents

The video footage that is edited in the timeline panel of Photoshop is?

Linked

Why should you be concerned about resolution when multiple images are combined?

Low resolution pictures when combined with high resolution can wreck your overall attempt and therefore you create a wonderful raster disaster, When combining images, Photoshop does not average the resolution between the two, it takes the resolution of the destination image, so make sure you put the low resolution images into the high in order to maintain image integrity and it's highest resolution, Because if you really care about producing a good image, you care that the image has good resolution. All of the above

In Photoshop when you want to add and subtract vector shapes, you go to the layers menu and choose Combine Shapes, which option below is not an option to Combine Shapes?

Make Outlines Shapes from Intersection

How can you tell if an image has been corrected in Photoshop?

Most times you can tell by viewing the Navigator panel

What tool allows you to move image contents from one picture into another?

Move tool

How do you add 3D content to your Photoshop file?

New 3D Layer from File

If you want your edits to your video to be on a separate layer, choose Layers > Video Layers > ?

New Blank Video Layer

All of the following are ways to change a brush size settings except.... ?

Opacity

When you want to turn off all layers except your one specific layer to preview only that layer, use this key in conjunction with clicking on the layer eyeball. Which key is it?

Option/Alt

Which answer below is not a motion preset of the timeline editor in Photoshop?

Pan & Zoom Pan Zoom Rotate

This type of style includes both character and paragraph formatting attributes, and can be applied to a paragraph or range of paragraphs. You can create this type of style and then apply them later. Which style is it?

Paragraph Style

Which tool allows you to draw a path that can be used for a vector mask?

Pen tool

Which option below lets you define the perspective of an object by sketching planes, which automatically spring to join together at their edges. Once the planes are in place, you can then manipulate the object so you can view it from a range of different angles, as if you were walking around it with your camera. You can also tell Photoshop to straighten grid sides automatically to make them conform to true horizontal and vertical axes.

Perspective Warp

When searching layers, which filters you can use in the layers panel?

Pixel layers, adjustment layers, type/text layers, shape layers, smart objects

When editing a 3d model in Photoshop, what part is NOT editable?

Polygon

When in the Camera Raw Filter, an editor can see the before and after edit of their image before applying the filter by clicking this button at the top of the basic screen? Which button/option allows you to see the effect of Camera Raw before executing it?

Preview

There are several Lasso Tools which are used to make irregular selections. Which of the answers below is not a lasso tool, but rather a quick way of "painting" in irregular selections?

Quick Mask

What color mode is typically used for color correcting an image?

RGB

What is the option that let you accelerate 3D display in Photoshop?

Rasterize 3D objects

Smart Radius & Edge Detection are options you'll find in this powerful set of tools made to modify your selections?

Refine Edge

When does Refine Edge appear in the Options bar?

Refine Edge will only appear in the Options bar when a Selection tool is active.

When using the Refine Edge options, more specifically in Edge Detection, which tool helps to further refine the edge?

Refine Radius tool

To discard the altered pixels on a specific frame or video layer, you can choose the ?

Restore Frame or Restore All Frames command

How can you create a 3D postcard in Photoshop?

Right-click the layer and choose 3D postcard

What is the benefit of using the Rotate View tool?

Rotate the whole image for preview only.

What do you have to do after you open a Smart Object and edit it?

Save and close it

How do you make a vector shape into an exact size?

Select the your preferred shape tool and click once in the image area. A Create Custom Shape dialog box comes up and then you can enter your dimensions

Hold down this keyboard modifier when you want to draw straight lines in 90 and 45 degree increments in conjunction with clicking on your image with the pen tool?

Shift

This option is found in the Brush panel and controls the distance between the brush marks in a stroke?

Spacing

The results are similar to Content-Aware Fill, but using this tool gives you the flexibility to choose the source area. Which tool allows you the flexibility to choose the source area?

Spot Healing Brush

If you need to straighten your horizon while cropping, photoshop has an option that can help and is found in the options panel. What option is it that helps straighten horizons?

Straighten option

Which panel allows you quickly stylize your images and photos using layer styles with just one click of the mouse?

Styles

To add fonts from Type Kit, you click on the Typeset icon while using this tool. It takes you to the Typeset website where you select the desired fonts and then initiate the sync operation. The Creative Cloud desktop app initiates download and installs the fonts on your system. Which tool should you be using in order to see the Typekit icon?

Text Tool

What's the difference between the background layer and a regular layer?

The background layer does not support layer features The background layer cannot be moved until it is unlocked The background layer cannot be moved in the stacking order until it is unlocked The background layer cannot be transformed until it is unlocked

What's the difference between the background layer and a regular layer?

The background layer does not support layer features until it is unlocked, The background layer cannot be moved until it is unlocked, The background layer cannot be moved in the stacking order until it is unlocked, The background layer cannot be transformed until it is unlocked, All of the above

What two colors are mixed when using the Mixer Brush?

The color of the brush and the colors of the image

Which panel in Photoshop allows you to create animations or edit videos and their frames?

Timeline

"Preserve Details" is a new feature found in the Image Size dialog box of Photoshop CC and is a great new feature for those that want to Up Sample an image. True,False

True

A neat trick that allows you to change the opacity of the layer, is just click the number on the keyboard, the opacity will change to reflect that number. You do have to be currently using the move tool though (V). True/False

True

After drawing two individual paths, you can join them using the Combine option in the options panel. True,False

True

After you have cropped an image with the "Delete cropped pixels" unchecked you can use the move tool to adjust your image within the crop boundaries. True,False

True

Airbrush is a not brush preset, but can be turned on in your option panel. T/F

True

Airbrush tips replicate spray cans with a 3D conical spray. With a stylus, you can alter the spread of sprayed strokes by changing pen pressure. True/False

True

Anti-aliasing produces smooth-edged type by partially filling the edge pixels. As a result, the edges of the type blend into the background. True/False

True

Any filter applied to a Smart Object is a Smart Filter. Smart Filters appear in the Layers panel below the Smart Object layer to which they are applied. Because you can adjust, remove, or hide Smart Filters, they are non-destructive. True/False

True

Erodible tip brushes behave similar to pencils and crayons, and wear down naturally as you draw. True/False

True

If you want to apply an effect to multiple Smart Object layers at the same time, you can select all your layers and convert them all into one Smart Object, then apply the effect. True/False

True

Painting (or using any other tool) on video frames is often called rotoscoping; although traditionally, rotoscoping involves the frame‑by‑frame tracing of live action images for use in animation. T/F

True

Painting on a video layer is nondestructive? True,False

True

Sharpening increases the contrast between neighboring pixels resulting in the visual effect of a crisper image. True/False

True

The canvas size is the full editable area of an image. The Canvas Size command lets you increase or decrease an image's canvas size. Increasing the canvas size adds space around an existing image. Decreasing an image's canvas size crops into the image. T/F

True

The color picker box can use the eye dropper tool to select exact color tones.

True

To rotate type, select the type layer and use any rotate command or the Free Transform command. For paragraph type, you can also select the bounding box and use a handle to rotate the type manually. True/False

True

Using the Smart Radius option in the Refine Edge dialog can be very helpful on difficult selections.

True

When using layer masks, the white area represents the selected area and the black is the mask. True/False

True

When using the Quick Select tool, you don't have to hold Shift when adding to a selection because by default the 'add to" option is turned on in the options bar.

True

When you are through refining your image through the Refine Edge dialog a designer can output the selection to a layer mask?

True

You can fill a shape with a pattern in the fill options dialog box. True,False

True

You can print your 3D models directly to your 3D printer from Photoshop. T/F

True

How do you create a dashed stroke in Photoshop?

Use any vector shape or line and then select Set Stroke Shape in the options bar to open the Stroke options.

What is the keyboard shortcut that switches the foreground and background colors? It's Very helpful when editing masks.

X

Which is a way to edit the contents of a Smart Object?

You have to double click on the Smart Object first

Which is not a reason you should use an adjustment layer to change color in Photoshop?

You should use adjustment layers any time you need advanced typographic features i.e. warping type

In order to straighten a crooked image, drag ____ to rotate the image until it appears straight.

outside the crop boundaries

Which 3D format is NOT supported when importing 3D objects to Photoshop?

tru3D