Design Principles
Peering through the Photoshop Window
Week 6 - "Layering" it on Thick
Making selections, type, and colors, oh my!
Miscellaneous
100

This design principle says that elements should be provided space based on importance.

What is proportion?

100

This is the name of the area where you create things in Photoshop.

What is the work area?

100

This is what you would click if you wanted to make a layer invisible/disappear.

What is the eye?

100

This is the name of an area of an image surrounded by a marquee (marching ants) in Photoshop.

What is a selection?

100

This document serves as the roadmap for a design and includes information about the client, the target audience, goals for communicating, deadlines for the project, and project deliverable expectations.

What is a creative brief?

200

This causes the audience to read the material in a certain sequence. (Z layout). It can be achieved through positioning,  pointing, and white space.


What is movement?

200

This is the bar at the very top of the Photoshop window that contains options such as File, Edit, Image, etc.

What is the Menu Bar?

200

This is the layer that is always at the bottom of the stack, identified by italics.


What is the background layer?

200

This tool allows you to sample an area and paint over imperfections.

What is the healing brush tool?

200

Name one way that PR practitioners use Photoshop.

Create fliers; Banners; Event programs; Local or organizational magazine; Brand identity materials; Creating a press release that gets picked up/read; Creating graphics for social media; Creating visuals for presentations; Editing photos for company materials


300

This term describes the overall arrangement of elements in an ad; i.e. vertical, horizontal, picture window display

What is Layout?

300

This is the area in Photoshop that shows commands like Zoom, Brush, Crop, Move, etc.

What is the Tools Panel?

300

This is what you would do if you wanted to move one layer in front of another in the layers panel.

What is drag it up?

300

This is the effect that fades a picture or portrait's border into the surrounding color at its edges that is used to tone down an overwhelming background.


What is a vignette?

300

This is a way to organize your photos and easily find one when you have many on your computer that you're working with.

What is Adobe Bridge?

400

This is empty space in a design that does not contain other elements.


What is white space?

400

What are the areas in Photoshop such as Layers, Channels, and Paths referred to as?

What are panels?

400

This is the term for the process of getting rid of a halo effect that sometimes occur when combining images.

What is defringing?

400

This is a small line or stroke regularly attached to the end of a larger stroke in a letter or symbol.

What is a serif?

400

Choosing this Save option in Photoshop saves a copy of the file.

What is Save As?
500

This is the design principle that states that elements should all work together to make the design harmonious. This can be created through balance, proportion, contrast, color, etc.


What is unity?

500

This is the bar directly underneath File, Edit, Image, etc. that displays current settings for a tool you have selected.

What is the Options bar?

500

This is the term for merging all visible layers into the background layer to reduce file size.

What is flattening?

500

Colors in the spectrum can be represented by mixing various proportions and intensities of Red, Green, and Blue colored light in this commonly used color mode in Photoshop.

What is RGB mode?

500

This is a section within an image that can be manipulated independently that is used to control or manipulate individual elements in an image.


What is a layer?

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