Prepare for the Adobe Photoshop certification exam with these practice questions and answers. This guide covers image editing tools, layers, masks, and design techniques.
Q: Adjustment layer
Answer: A special kind of layer used for modifying color and contrast
Q: Adobe Bridge
Answer: A digital asset system that allows the sharing of images across multiple Adobe programs
Q: Aspect ratio
Answer: The proportion relationship between an image’s width and height
Q: Baseline
Answer: Used to shift selected characters up or down relative to surrounding text to create exponents or footnotes
Q: Background layer
Answer: The back-most image in the layers panel
Q: Character tracking
Answer: Changes the spacing between all characters in a block of text
Q: CMYK
Answer: A subtractive color model (color space) used in printing that uses Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black for color channels
Q: Color Gamut
Answer: The range of colors that can be displayed by any given device
Q: Contrast
Answer: Creating difference between elements on a page. This can be achieved with color or by varying size, fonts, and font styles.
Q: Copyright
Answer: The exclusive right to copy, distribute, and profit from a work
Q: Framing
Answer: Placing the subject of an image into focus or changing contrast, brightness and cropping an image to highlight the subject
Q: GIF file
Answer: A bitmap image format that supports animation
Q: H.264 file
Answer: A video coding format that is currently one of the most commonly used formats for the recording, compression, and distribution of HD video content like Blu Ray dics
Q: Harmony
Answer: Pulling the composition of an image together by using repetition or rhythm
Q: Hierarchy
Answer: Contains elements that lead the reader through each element in order of significance
Q: Improving readability
Answer: Create contrast with font styles and use space and proximity
Q: Indexed color
Answer: Images that use a color palette with a default maximum value of 256 colors
Q: JPEG
Answer: A commonly used format with lossy compression for digital photography
Q: Kerning
Answer: Changes the spacing between two letters of text
Q: MPEG
Answer: A standard for lossy compression of video and audio
Q: Non-lossy (full quality) file formats
Answer: BMP, RAW and PNG
Q: Non-destructive editing
Answer: Changing images without altering the original pixels (adjustment layers)
Q: Pixels
Answer: Individual dots that make up an image
Q: PNG
Answer: A raster graphics file formats that supports lossless data compression
Q: Raster (or bitmap) image
Answer: Represented by pixels in a grid layout and cannot be re-sized without loss of quality
Q: Rasterizing
Answer: Converting a vector image into pixels so more special effects/filters can be applied
Q: RAW file
Answer: Contains unprocessed, uncompressed grayscale picture data from a digital camera’s image sensor, along with information about how the image was captured (metadata)
Q: Readability
Answer: Level of ease the reader can understand information in the design which can be improved using spacing and proximity or creating contrast with font styles
Q: Repitition
Answer: Creating visual consistency by repeating an element such as colors, styles, or shapes
Q: Resolution
Answer: Measurement of an image’s size by the number of dots that make up the image
Q: RGB
Answer: Color mode best for digital documents (not printed) that allows access top the most features in Photoshop including 3D using Red, Green, and Blue color channels
Q: Rule of Thirds
Answer: 9 Equal sections divided by equally space horizontal and equally spaced vertical lines used to create a visually appealing image or design
Q: Scale
Answer: Using the relative size of elements against each other to attract attention to a focal point
Q: Sans serif font features
Answer: Simple modern looking fonts (no decorative lines), better in digital documents due to readability at small sizes
Q: Serif font features
Answer: Traditional textbook-style fonts which which better in printed work, has small decorative lines or embelishments
Q: Shape layer
Answer: A layer that holds shapes that are created
Q: Smart objects
Answer: Contain image data from raster or vector images and allow for nondestructive transforms
Q: SVG file
Answer: A vector format that produces high-quality, interactive web graphics
Q: TIFF file
Answer: A tag-based file format for storing and interchanging raster images
Q: Tracking
Answer: Changes the spacing between all characters in a block of text
Q: Tool bar
Answer: Contains all the tools used when working with images including selection tools, etc.
Q: Type layer
Answer: A layer that holds type that is created
Q: Vector images
Answer: Created with mathematical calculations, can be re-sized without loss of quality
Q: Vector mask
Answer: A resolution independent path that clips out the contents of the layer