Photoshop Basics 1

Workspace

100

This menu appears across the top when a tool is selected

What is the Options bar

200

The native file format for Adobe Photoshop

What is PSD?

300

The keyboard shortcut for saving a file.

What is Command S?

400

The standard resolution used for print

What is 300 dpi

500

You can drag an image file here to open it in Photoshop (multiple correct answers)

onto the Photoshop icon in the dock, into the photoshop document window, onto a photoshop document tab

Navigation

100

The keyboard shortcut to zoom IN on your image/canvas.

What is Command +?

200

This key is pressed to move around within the document window while editting

What is Spacebar?

300

The keyboard command to make your image/canvas a full screen view.

What is Command 0?

400

This window displays the last several edits that you made

What is the history panel?

500

If a desired panel is not open you can find it under this menu at the top

What is the Windows menu

Layers

100

Click this to show and hide a layer.

What is Eye Icon?

200

When you open a new psd document the initial layer is labeled this

What is the Background?

300

How do you make an object appear to be underneath all of your layers

What is drag the object's layer to the BOTTOM of the layer stack in the layer palette

400

To rename a layer you do this on top of the current name

double click

500

this slider changes the amount of transparency, or how well you can see through a layer

What is Opacity?

Keyboard shortcuts

100

Use this keyboard shortcut to zoom OUT of your image/canvas.

What is Command -

200

The keyboard shortcut to undo a single action.

What is Command Z?

300

Press these keys to increase or decrease the brush or cursor size

What are brackets? [ ]

400

The keyboard shortcut to save a document in Photoshop.

What is Command S?

500

Makes a new layer containing only the current selection

command + J

Misc

100

Keyboard shortcut for Free Transform.

What is Control T?

200

You can straighten the image using this tool.

What is the crop tool?

300

The key that is pressed to enable adding to an active selection.

What is Shift?

400

Used in image editing to separate different elements of an image by stacking them

What is Layers?

500

This is the keyboard shortcut to deselect an active selection.

What is Command D?