Total Training for Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended – Essentials
Assessment Answer Key

Chapter 01: The Big Picture
1. What are the three primaries used to create all of the possible color combinations? 2. What does a lossy file format accomplish?
3. How does an imageʼs pixels affect file size?

Chapter 02: Setting Up Like a Pro
1. What tool can we use to precisely straighten an image along a horizontal or vertical edge?
2. How do you undock a tab group into separate panels?
3. What are keyboard shortcuts and how can you modify them?

Chapter 03: Global Editing
1. How does an on-image adjustment tool work?
2. How do you constrain a crop to a specific proportion?
3. What is a histogram?

Chapter 04: Making Selections
1. Name two methods for constraining a selection with the Rectangular Marquee tool to a square.
2. What modifier key do you press to temporarily set the Quick Selection tool to subtract mode?
3. In which panel do you store and retrieve saved selections?

Chapter 05: Non-Destructive Editing
1. What benefits do adjustment layers offer?
2. What does painting with black on a layer mask accomplish?
3. What is a snapshot?

Chapter 06: The Fixer-Upper
1. What advantage does the Healing Brush offer compared to the Clone Stamp tool? 2. What is image noise and what causes it?
3. What does activating the Aligned checkbox accomplish in the Clone Stamp and Healing Brush tools?

Chapter 07: Type Design
1. How do you add a text box?
2. How does justified text differ in appearance from left aligned text?
3. How do you add a layer effect?

Chapter 08: Vectors, Shapes & Paths
1. Name two advantages a vector graphic has over a raster image.
2. How do you convert a selection into a path?
3. How do you create multiple shapes on the same shape layer?

Chapter 09: Smart Objects
1. Name three advantages of Smart Objects.
2. When you use the Replace Contents command on a Smart Object what happens to filters and effects when the new content is added?

3. How do you apply a Smart Filter to a Smart Object?

Chapter 10: Adobe Bridge
1. What do the items in the Filter panel allow you to do?
2. Name two sources of metadata for digital images.
3. What is a smart collection?

Chapter 11: Photoshop Camera Raw
1. How do you white balance or color correct an image in Adobe Camera Raw?
2. How do you eliminate dust or other small defects in a raw file?
3. What is a selective edit? Name a tool that can be used to achieve a selective edit. Chapter 12: Image Layers & Alpha Channels
1. What are some limitations of a Background layer?
2. What is the difference between selecting Merge All Visible and Flatten Layers in the Layers menu?
3. How do layer comps differ from snapshots?

Chapter 13: Compositing Images
1. When dragging a layer from one image to another, how do you ensure that the copied pixels align to the center of the destination document?
2. When you draw with the Gradient tool using Black, White mode what happens to the layer mask in areas above the point where you make your initial click with the mouse?

3. In the Photomerge dialog window, what does the Add Open Files button accomplish? Chapter 14: Working with Brushes
1. How do you create a soft-edged brush?
2. What do the jitter options in the shape dynamics menu control?
3. When using the Mixer Brush how do you control the wetness of the canvas?

Chapter 15: Print & Web Output
1. How do you trigger a Before preview in the Smart Sharpen preview window?
2. Which of the two Color Handling options in the Print dialog allows you to select a printer profile?
3. In the Save for Web & Devices dialog, how can you view an onscreen preview of file to be saved?