Working in the Photoshop Interface
This panel displays the document’s component layers and lets you select, reorder, hide, and organize them.
What is the Layers panel?
Before building a design, this document specification tells you its intended width, height, and orientation.
What are the canvas dimensions?
Clicking this icon beside a layer toggles whether that layer is visible.
What is the layer visibility icon, or eye icon?
This tool creates a rectangular or elliptical selection boundary for isolating part of an image.
What is the Marquee tool?
This color mode combines red, green, and blue light and is commonly used for screens.
What is RGB?
This tool lets you move a selected layer or selection within the document window.
What is the Move tool?
For a project intended for a particular audience and purpose, these written project details guide the design decisions and deliverables.
What are the design requirements or creative brief?
This feature lets you arrange layers into named groups to keep a complex document organized.
What are layer groups?
This selection tool can detect and select a subject or object based on its edges and appearance.
What is the Object Selection tool?
This color mode uses cyan, magenta, yellow, and black inks and is commonly associated with print production.
What is CMYK?
This interface element contains options that change according to the currently selected tool.
What is the Options bar?
This measure describes how many pixels are assigned to an inch when preparing an image for print.
What is resolution measured in pixels per inch (PPI)?
This layer type applies tonal or color changes without permanently changing the original image pixels.
What is an adjustment layer?
On a layer mask, this color hides the masked layer while the opposite color reveals it.
What is black?
In typography, this term describes the visual design and style of a set of characters.
What is a typeface?
This panel records many recent actions and lets you return to an earlier state during the current editing session.
What is the History panel?
A photo is made of pixels and may lose quality when enlarged substantially; it belongs to this image category.
What is raster?
Converting a layer to this preserves its original image data and supports scaling or transformations with less destructive impact.
What is a Smart Object?
Unlike erasing pixels, painting on this grayscale layer feature hides or reveals parts of a layer and can be edited later.
What is a layer mask?
Arranging elements so that one or more attract attention first, then guide the viewer through the design, establishes this.
What is visual hierarchy?
To keep frequently used panels accessible without crowding the workspace, you can save a customized arrangement of panels and tools as this.
What is a workspace?
Before using a downloaded image in a client project, a designer should check its license and permissions because this legal protection controls how the creator’s work may be used.
What is copyright
Keeping original pixels intact while making edits that can be changed or removed later is called this editing approach.
What is non-destructive editing?
To blend a subject into a new background non-destructively, a designer can create a selection, refine its edge, and apply it using this layer feature.
What is a layer mask?
A designer repeats colors, shapes, or type treatments across a layout to create this principle, helping its parts feel connected.
What is unity?