Grade 11 –MT1
Photoshop CS5- Unit B
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
____ 1. In order to modify specific pixels, you first need to ____ them.
a. / identify / c. / copyb. / select / d. / format
____ 2. The Tolerance tools on the Tools panel includes the Magic Wand and ____ tools.
a. / Quick Selection / c. / Quick Maskb. / Marquee / d. / MegaPixel
____ 3. The ____ tools are the most basic tools available for making selections in Photoshop.
a. / Graphic Selection / c. / Marqueeb. / Lasso / d. / Select
____ 4. The ____ tool is used for making oval or circular selections.
a. / Equilateral Marquee / c. / Drifting Marqueeb. / Elliptical Marquee / d. / Ovoid Marquee
____ 5. Pressing and holding ____ in Windows when no pixels are selected creates a marquee selection that starts in the center and grows outward.
a. / [option] / c. / [M]b. / [Alt] / d. / [Ctrl]
____ 6. When selecting a complex shape with the Lasso tool, you will usually find it easier to make small selections then add to them with the ____ key.
a. / Alt / c. / Optionb. / Ctrl / d. / Shift
____ 7. ____ tools are for making free-form selections.
a. / Marquee / c. / Selectionb. / Lasso / d. / Lateral
____ 8. The ____ Lasso tool functions like the Lasso tool, but it does so with straight lines.
a. / Magic / c. / Polygonalb. / Magnetic / d. / Elliptical
____ 9. Which Lasso tool is best for selecting areas of the canvas that are geometric in shape?
a. / Lasso / c. / Elliptical Lassob. / Magnetic Lasso / d. / Polygonal Lasso
____ 10. In the accompanying figure, which selection would have been easiest to make using the Polygonal Lasso tool?
a. / 1 / c. / 3b. / 2 / d. / 4
____ 11. Because the colors are so vivid in the accompanying figure, which of the following did the user probably use to make the selections?
a. / Magic Wand tool with a high tolerance settingb. / Magic Wand tool with a low tolerance setting
c. / Magic Wand tool with no tolerance setting
d. / Various Lasso tools
____ 12. The Magic Wand tool can be used to select pixels that are touching, or ____.
a. / tolerant / c. / meldedb. / contiguous / d. / similar
____ 13. Once pixels have been selected, which of the following would be used to change their colors?
a. / Hue/Saturation dialog box / c. / Color Options dialog boxb. / Color Swatches / d. / Colors list menu
____ 14. Click any pixel on the canvas and the Magic Wand tool selects other pixels based on ____.
a. / tolerance / c. / proximityb. / similarity / d. / fording
____ 15. ____ a selection is always a smart idea because you never know when you might want to access the selection again in the future.
a. / Duplicating / c. / Sharingb. / Saving / d. / Cropping
____ 16. ____ is a special effect that is created by reducing the number of colors available for the image.
a. / Blur / c. / Posterizeb. / Reduction / d. / Compress
____ 17. Press [Alt] [Backspace] (Win) or ____ (Mac) to fill a selection with the foreground color.
a. / [option] [Delete] / c. / [Delete] [Shift]b. / [Shift] [option] / d. / [Control] [option]
____ 18. On the ____ panel, if you click a swatch, the foreground changes to that color.
a. / Colors / c. / Hue / Saturationb. / Swatches / d. / None of the above
____ 19. An alpha channel is a ____.
a. / saved color swatch / c. / secondary workspaceb. / saved Photoshop document / d. / saved selection
____ 20. Alpha channels are listed on the ____ panel in Photoshop.
a. / Selections / c. / Thumbnailb. / Channels / d. / Work
____ 21. In Photoshop, although you have millions of colors at your disposal, at any given time you are working with just two colors: the ____ and ____ colors on the Tools panel.
a. / top, bottom / c. / foreground, backgroundb. / front, back / d. / left, right
____ 22. Many users like to think of ____ as stencils and the white areas as that which has been “cut out” of the stencil.
a. / selections / c. / alpha channelsb. / marquee selections / d. / alpha thumbnails
____ 23. The accompanying figure represents the ____ alpha channel.
a. / Background / c. / Light Grayb. / Dark Gray / d. / Composite
____ 24. In the accompanying figure, the ____ areas are represented by white.
a. / colored / c. / unselectedb. / selected / d. / lost
____ 25. In the accompanying figure, areas not selected are represented by ____.
a. / white / c. / blackb. / pixels / d. / color
____ 26. The outline of a selection is called the ____ of the selection.
a. / alias / c. / sideb. / foreground / d. / edge
____ 27. Which of the following is the term for an edge that features obvious, “stair-stepped” pixels?
a. / anti-aliased edge / c. / raster edgeb. / hard edge / d. / aliased edge
____ 28. What is the resolution of most monitors?
a. / 72 ppi / c. / 80 ppib. / 75 ppi / d. / 150 ppi
____ 29. What do we call a visual effect in which the edge of an image—usually an oval—gradually fades away?
a. / frame / c. / featherb. / ovoid / d. / vignette
____ 30. A ____ edge is a blended edge.
a. / soft / c. / suppleb. / feathered / d. / blurred
____ 31. Many graphic arts professionals refer to alpha channels as ____.
a. / stencils / c. / masksb. / tops / d. / opacity
____ 32. ____ is a visual aid that gives you a preview of your selection.
a. / Quick Mask / c. / Mask Viewb. / Mask Options / d. / Standard Mask
____ 33. The only way an alpha channel can render a feathered edge is with ____ pixels.
a. / white / c. / blackb. / gray / d. / silver
____ 34. The ____ tool is a selection tool that you use by dragging the tool pointer over the item you wish to select until you have all of it selected.
a. / Speed Selection / c. / Paint Selectionb. / Magic Lasso / d. / Quick Selection
____ 35. The ____ slider is especially useful for removing halos from the edge of a selection.
a. / Contrast / c. / Hue / Saturationb. / Clarify / d. / Differential
Case B-1
Lucia has found a beautiful old photograph of her great-grandmother, and wants to use it to make a Mother’s Day gift for her mom and grandma. She decides to frame the photo after giving it a vignette effect.
____ 36. In order to soften the edges of the vignette effect, which of the following should Lucia use?
a. / aliasing / c. / rasterizingb. / feathering / d. / fading
____ 37. Before she decides what to do with the photo, Lucia looks at all of her options. She doesn’t understand what a vignette is. How would you best define it for her?
a. / A small image surrounded by a feathered rectangleb. / A visual effect in which the edge of an image—usually an oval—gradually fades away
c. / A series of photographs that tell a story
d. / A feathered image treated in sepia tones
Case B-2
Barris has been working on a poster for his band, We Hate Crust, and he’s unhappy with the way it looks. For some reason, many of the images he has placed appear to be either pixilated or have rough edges, and he really wants everything to look crisp and clean.
____ 38. Because many of the edges in the poster have a rough and “stair-stepped” appearance, Barris guesses that they’re probably not ____.
a. / anti-aliased / c. / smoothedb. / aliased / d. / edited
____ 39. Where can Barris find the Anti-alias check box?
a. / In the Magic Wand tool panelb. / On the Options bar for the Magic Wand tool
c. / On the Tools bar of the Options panel
d. / In the Tools / Options menu under Magic Wand
____ 40. Barris knows that the ____ offers you a number of useful options for viewing and refining the edge of a selection.
a. / Edge dialog box / c. / Edging Tools dialog boxb. / Refine Edge dialog box / d. / Refining Tools dialog box
True/False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
____ 41. Pressing and holding [Shift] while dragging a marquee tool constrains the marquee selection to a perfect circle or square.
____ 42. There are four types of Lasso tools in Photoshop.
____ 43. The greater the tolerance value you set for the tool, the fewer pixels the Magic Wand tool will select.
____ 44. With the Posterize effect set to four, each pixel in the image can be one—and only one—of four available shades of gray.
____ 45. When saving colors in the Swatches panel, the pointer changes to a paint bucket icon.
____ 46. Alpha channels are displayed as black-and-white thumbnail images in Photoshop’s Channels panel.
____ 47. With an aliased edge, Photoshop creates a smooth transition between the edge and its background using many shades of the edge pixel color.
____ 48. Anti-aliasing manipulates the color of edge pixels in a selection to create a visual transition between the selected object and the background.
____ 49. Photoshop offers settings for controlling the length of the blend for a feathered edge.
____ 50. The Quick Selection tool selects pixels based on their difference.
Modified True/False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false. If false, change the identified word or phrase to make the statement true.
____ 51. The Tools panel houses three types of selection tools: the Selection tools, the Lasso tools, and the Tolerance tools.
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____ 52. Pressing and holding [Alt] (Win) or [option] (Mac) when making a selection removes pixels from the existing selection. ______
____ 53. Click any pixel on the canvas, and the Magic Wand tool selects other pixels based on continuity — the similarity of their color.
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____ 54. The accompanying figure is an example of a(n) default channel.
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____ 55. A Photoshop image is made up of pixels, and pixels are round.
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____ 56. You can’t create a soft edge with squares; squares have right-angle corners, all you can do is create the illusion of a soft edge.
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____ 57. The feather value is equal to the length of the feathered edge.
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____ 58. The accompanying figure is the Fine Edge dialog box.
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____ 59. When working with the dialog box in the accompanying figure, the keyboard command [X] temporarily displays the entire image.
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____ 60. When working with the dialog box in the accompanying figure, the keyboard command [Ctrl] [F] cycles backward through the preview modes.
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Completion
Complete each statement.
61. Before using the Marquee tools to make selections, verify that only the ______panel is open.
62. ______tools are also used for making free-form selections.
63. Use the ______dialog box to change the colors of selected pixels.
64. When sampling colors, the ______tool allows you to sample any pixel from the image.
65. When you save a selection, the selection is saved as a(n) ______.
66. With a(n) ______edge, Photoshop creates a smooth transition between the edge and its background using many shades of the edge pixel color.
67. ______Mode provides a preview of how the feathered edge will appear when you save the selection.
Matching
Identify the letter of the choice that best matches the phrase or definition.
a. / Aliased edge / e. / Vignetteb. / Alpha channel / f. / Posterize
c. / Tolerance / g. / Quick Mask Mode
d. / Feather
____ 68. A special effect that is created by reducing the number of colors available for the image
____ 69. A visual effect in which the edge of an image—usually an oval—gradually fades away.
____ 70. A hard edge
____ 71. Saved selections
____ 72. A blend, usually at the edge of an image
Essay
73. What are the Marquee tools and what are they used for?
74. Choose three of the four numbered selections in the figure above. Discuss the selection tool you would use to make each selection, and why.
75. What is the difference between aliased and anti-aliased edges?
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