Digital Imaging, Photoshop

Color picker

A feature that lets you choose a color from a color spectrum or numerically to define a custom color.

Magic wand tool

A selection tool that selects pixels with similar values to the pixel that the artist clicks on.

Move tool

Allows you to move a selected part of an image, align layers, and distribute layers in an image

Hand tool

Allows you to scroll through an image that doesn't fit completely in the viewing window. The spacebar is the keyboard shortcut.

Brush tool

Allows you to select a brush, its characteristics, including size, shape, spacing, roundness, hardness, softness, angle, diameter, mode, opacity, and more.

Raster graphic

An image made up of a rectangular grid of pixels. This type of graphic distorts if you try to enlarge it. (Photoshop).

Vector graphic

An image that uses mathematical formulas (geometrical primitives such as points, lines, curves, and polygons) to represent images. This type of graphic is scalable and does not pixelate. (Illustrator).

Filter

Creates special effects that maybe applied to an image or image layer.

Blending modes

Determines how the layer's colored pixels will mix (relate) with the underlying pixels in the image.

Image menu

From this place's choices, you can make adjustments to the image concerning color, hue, saturation, and other attributes, as well as make changes to the color mode. Other options allow you to duplicate, trim, rotate, crop, and trap the image, and change the image size.

Invert

Reverses the action (i.e. makes the selection the opposite or applies a filter or effect in a reverse manner.

Handle

Small squares that appear around an object when transforming it that allow you to move, resize, reshape, or distort the image.

Feather

The process of softening the edges of an image to the foreground so that it blends into the background image with less contrast.

Layer

The working surface of a Photoshop image. It is like a transparent sheet that sorts the paint and filter effects. It appears in a "Stack" and the order may be changed by dragging them up or down in the stack.

Marquee tools

There are four _____ tools—rectangular, elliptical, single row, and single column. These tools allow you to select portions of an object, file, photo, or subject for editing. These selections must be elliptical, rectangular, circular, or 1 pixel wide or thick.

Lasso tools

There are three of these tools: The _____ tool, the Polygonal ____ tool, and the Magnetic ___ tool. The first two choices let you draw around an object using curves and line segments, respectively, and the third lets you draw around an object and have the drawn lines snap to the object (based on calculations determined by color differences in the object and the background).

Type tools

These tools are used to add words to an image. With a _________ selected, you can set options for font, size, color, alignment, and more.

Eyedropper tool

This tool allows you to match a color exactly by clicking on an area of the image to sample the color and then offers information about said color.

Select

To choose an object so that you can manipulate it in some way. "Marching Ants" show the border of a ______.

Merge

To group one or more layers or objects in a layer together.

Scale

Transform tool that allows you to enlarge or reduce an image's size horizontally, vertically, or both.

Font

Used to create text. They are categorized by family, style, size, and other attributes.

Transparency

When an area of an image is "erased to ________," there is a checkered background showing. There is nothing on that part of the image. (It is see-through)

Edit menu

You can undo the last step taken or "undo an undo" by choosing step forward. You can cut, copy, and paste a selection from the clipboard, fill a layer with a color or pattern, check the spelling of text, and transform images in any number of ways.

Shape tools

_____ include rectangle, rounded rectangle, ellipse, polygon, line, and custom shapes.

JPG or JPEG

an image file format. It compresses file size by selectively discarding data from the image. This process generally works well and you won't notice a significant difference in quality from the original. This compression results in a smaller file size

Hardness

controls a brush's hard center and can be set using the slider or by typing in a number. It can be compared to using a pencil by pressing hard to create a darker and more forceful print; lower this number for a softer effect.

Paint bucket tool

fills a closed object with a solid color.

Composite

is the combining of visual elements from separate sources into single images, often to create the illusion that all of those elements are apart of the same scene.

Foreground color

is used when paint tools are chosen and when fill and stroke tools are selected.

Toolbox

it's where you'll find the tools you need to create your artwork and perform editing tasks On the left side of the Photoshop workspace.

Options bar

located at the top of the interface underneath the menu bar and changes each time a new tool is selected.

Palette

located on the right side of the interface; they are contained in rectangular boxes and offer tools to help you modify, monitor, and edit images.

Undo

moves back one step and reverses the last action taken. CMD+Z = One Step and CMD+Opt+Z= More than one step

Pixels

small squares that contain color and make up the structure of an image.

Menu bar

the bar at the top of the Photoshop interface that contains several headings: File, Edit, Image, Layer, Select, Filter, View, Window, and Help.

Zoom tool

tool that allows you options to resize the image and fit it on your screen.

Opacity

used to specify how transparent a layer should be, either on its own or in regard to other layers. 100% ______ = not transparent at all and 0% = completely transparent.

Resolution

​ a measurement of the output quality of an image, usually in terms of pixels per inch.

Rasterize

​ taking an image described in a vector graphic format (shapes or text) and converting it into a raster image (pixels) so that it can be edited like a photograph.

Saturation

​The image's ______ refers to the intensity of its colors.

PSD

​an image file format. Saving a document as a Photoshop document allows you to save the document with all its layers for easy editing. Photoshop documents can only be opened in Photoshop.