Wednesday, January 22, 2014

What Is Photoshop


  1. 3 parts of Adobe Photoshop are the title bar, menu bar, and option bar.
  2. What types of professionals use Photoshop?- Photographer, Web Designer, Graphic Designer, Advertiser
  3. What are the functions of the three different components of Photoshop?- cropping, lighting, and contrasting
  4. Crop tool- use to hide or crop certain things out of the image
  5. Lasso- trace the image outline
  6. Text- enter blocks of text
  7. How do you "undo" a mistake?- Command+Z or CTRL-Z
  8. What can you do to undo more than one mistake? How do you open it?- Pull up the History Pallet by going to 'Window' --> 'History Menu'
  9. How do you rotate an image?- Go to the image menu and select Image Rotation.
  10. If you don't like the initial cropping box you drew, how can you change it before you make your crop?- You can use the cancel icon (looks like a no-smoking circle)
  11. Under the heading "Realizing while Cropping" when you enter dimensions as you crop, what are you telling photoshop to do as you crop your image?you are telling Photoshop which dimensions the image should result in after your crop
  12. What is the correct resolution for newsletters and newspapers?- 150 to 200 pip
  13. What is the correct resolution for magazines?- 250 ppi or more