Aperture
This camera setting, measured in f-stops, not only controls light but also determines how blurry or sharp the background appears.
What is aperture?
This camera setting controls how long the sensor is exposed to light and can create motion blur or freeze action.
What is shutter speed?
This tool, found in the toolbar, lets you paint on your image with customizable size and softness.
What is the Brush Tool?
This adjustment is commonly used to make an image brighter or darker without changing its colors.
What is Brightness/Contrast?
This 1990 movie features Kevin McCallister defending his home from two bumbling burglars.
What is Home Alone?
When you use a smaller aperture (a higher f-number), what happens to the depth of field in your photo?
What is more of the image is in focus?
A fast shutter speed like 1/1000 sec is best for capturing this type of subject without blur.
What is fast-moving subjects (like sports or wildlife)?
This feature allows you to hide or reveal parts of a layer without permanently deleting pixels.
What is a Layer Mask?
This adjustment is often used to make colors in a photo look more vibrant or muted.
Answer: What is Saturation (or Hue/Saturation)?
In this classic 1946 film, George Bailey learns how much his life matters thanks to an angel named Clarence.
What is It’s a Wonderful Life?
This f-stop setting lets in the most light: f/2.8 or f/16?
What is f/2.8?
If you want to create a silky effect on a waterfall, should you use a fast or slow shutter speed?
What is a slow shutter speed?
To make an exact copy of a layer, you can right-click and choose this option.
What is Duplicate Layer?
This adjustment helps fix photos that look too blue or too yellow by changing the overall color tone.
What is Color Balance?
This animated movie tells the story of a boy who takes a magical train ride to the North Pole on Christmas Eve.
What is The Polar Express?
Changing aperture affects exposure and this other visual characteristic of an image.
What is depth of field?
Doubling the shutter speed (e.g., from 1/60 to 1/30) will have this effect on the amount of light hitting the sensor.
What is it doubles the light?
This tool is commonly used to remove small blemishes or imperfections from a photo.
What is the Spot Healing Brush Tool?
This adjustment uses a histogram to control shadows, midtones, and highlights for better contrast.
What is Levels?
In this 2003 comedy, Buddy discovers he’s human after being raised by elves at the North Pole.
What is Elf?
The term for the series of numbers (like f/1.4, f/2, f/2.8) that represent aperture sizes.
What are f-stops?
This term describes the unwanted blur caused by camera movement during a long exposure.
What is camera shake?
This tool lets you trim away unwanted edges of an image to improve composition.
What is the Crop Tool?
This advanced tool helps remove unwanted objects by filling the space with surrounding pixels intelligently.
What is Content-Aware Fill?
This 1983 film follows Ralphie’s quest to get a Red Ryder BB gun for Christmas.
What is A Christmas Story?