Typography
This typeface has no decorative strokes or “feet” and usually has a clean, modern appearance.
What is Sans-Serif?
These three colors are called primary because they cannot be created by mixing other colors together.
What are red, yellow, and blue?
Using a very light word on a very dark background is an example of this principle.
What is contrast?
This area on the left side of Photoshop contains tools such as Move, Selection, Brush, and Type.
What is the Tools Panel/Toolbar?
Clicking this icon next to a layer allows you to hide or show that layer without deleting it.
What is the eye/visibility icon?
In typography, this invisible line is where most letters appear to “sit.”
What is the baseline?
Isaac Newton is credited with developing this tool used to show the relationships between colors.
What is the traditional color wheel?
Reusing the same shape, color, font, or graphic element throughout a design demonstrates this principle.
What is repetition?
This bar changes depending on which tool you currently have selected and displays settings for that tool.
What is the Options Bar?
A text layer is named “Layer 7.” What should you do to make the Layers panel easier to organize and navigate?
What is rename the layer?
The letters g, j, p, q, and y have parts that extend below the baseline. What are these letters called?
What are descending letters?
A designer wants to create a pastel blue. What should they add to blue to create it?
What is white? (creating a tint)
This principle is about distributing visual weight so that a design doesn't feel heavier on one side than another.
What is balance?
This area displays the file you are currently designing or editing and is the main working area in Photoshop.
What is the Document Window?
You have five text layers that belong together. What should you create to organize them as one section in the Layers panel?
What is a group?
A designer stretches text evenly from the left margin to the right margin, creating straight edges on both sides. Which alignment is being used?
What is justified alignment?
A designer wants a color combination with strong contrast and chooses orange as the main color. Which color should they pair with it?
What is blue?
A designer uses bright yellow for one button while everything surrounding it is gray. The yellow immediately attracts attention.
What is emphasis?
Your Layers panel accidentally disappears from the workspace. Which menu at the top of Photoshop can you use to bring it back?
What is the Window menu?
Your logo should appear on top of a photograph, but the photograph is currently covering it. What should you change in the Layers panel?
What is move/reorder the logo layer above the photo layer?
A paragraph ends with one lonely line of text at the top of the next column or page. What typography problem has occurred?
What is a widow?
Two versions of red have the same hue, but one looks bright and intense while the other looks dull and muted. Which property of color has changed?
What is saturation?
A design uses white text against a black background, large text beside small text, and thick lettering beside thin lettering. All three demonstrate this principle.
What is contrast?
This panel shows all of the individual elements that make up your Photoshop document.
What is the Layers Panel?
You keep accidentally moving a background that is already positioned correctly. What should you do to that layer to prevent accidental changes?
What is lock the layer?