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Answers to the Photoshop Pre-Exam
1. Some of the digital art program types are Image Manipulators (Photoshop), illustration (Illustrator and CorelDRAW), painting (Corel Painter). Vectors are curves formed between anchor points or nodes. Rasters are pixels.
2. Version 6, press Enter. The options are on a toolbar beneath the menu. Earlier versions, press Enter. The options are on a palette.
3. File > New, Ctrl-N, Ctrl-doubleclick on the PS screen background.
4. F6
5. Black foreground, white background. Type D.
6. Type X
7. Click the active color box. Fine-tune colors, view web colors. Choose specific color palettes.
8. RGB (work in mostly), CMYK, grayscale, bitmap, LAB.
9. B=brush, J=airbrush, E=eraser, S=stamp, Y=history, G=gradient, R=smudge.
10. Airbrush. Pencil.
11. Alt-del fills with foreground color. Ctrl-del fills with background color. Edit-fill (Shift-bksp) lets you choose what to fill with, and various blend modes.
12. Marquees (M), Lassos (L), Wand (W).
13. Drag with a selection tool.
14. Drag with the Move tool.
15. Shift
16. Alt
17. Ctrl-J places a copy on a new layer. Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V places a copy in the center of either the selected area or the canvas.
18. Right-click the image title bar, choose Duplicate.
19. Crop
20. Type 2. Type 73, quickly. Type zero.
21. Tab, F, F.
22. F7. Create new layers, change the order of layers, change layer attributes, be sure you are working on the layer you intend, etc etc etc.
23. A Background is the bottom layer of an image. Background color is the secondary color, used in various effects.
24. Change it to a layer, because the background MUST be on the bottom.
25. (exercise)
26. On the Layers palette, change opacity to 50%, choose Mulitply from the blending mode window.
27. Click the eyeballs off, for layers that should be invisible. Or Alt-click the one layer you want to keep visible.
28. Layer > Flatten image, click the New Layer icon, B, paint the letter shapes. Then make Layer 1 active. Lock transparency (click Preserve Transparency), choose red for you foreground color by ctrl-clicking the red balloon (or click it with the eyedropper tool), alt-del to fill your letter shapes.
29. Steps: click the new layers icon twice. Choose red. With a new layer active, alt-del. Choose green. Make the other new layer active. Alt-del. Drag the green filled thumbnail to the trashcan. Make the red layer active. From the blending mode window, choose the Hue blending mode. The illustration shows how your image should look.
30. Select the flower with the Lasso tool. Drag it to the girl photo with the Move tool. Use Free Transform to resize the flower. Draw a stem extending below the girl's hand.
31. Layer masks are used to blend images. Quickmask is used to refine selections.
32. Color channels and Alpha Channels. Color channels record and display the color information. Alpha channels are used to save the shapes of selections.
33. Select the portion to be filtered. Apply the filter. Choose Free Transform. Right-click in the area and choose Flip Horizontally.
34. Use the lasso tool to create the shapes. Use Edit > Stroke to apply the outline. Change the stroke options to "outside," "inside," and "center" for the respective strokes, and adjust the stroke width.
35. Use a selection tool with no feathering, then fill. Use a selection tool and feather the selection before filling.
36. Use the constrain keys. Shift to create perfect circles, and Alt to create a selection from the center.
37. Add to the canvas with the Crop tool. Use the Smudge tool to pull out the hairs.
38. Use the Stamp tool to create flowers on a new layer. Use the Free Transform tool to rotate and scale the flowers. Use the Stamp tool again to paint in petals and change the flower's appearances, to avoid having the same flower over and over again.
39. The History brush.
40. Levels, or one of the others that increases contrast, thus getting
rid of gray.
Christine Frey