Photoshop Certification Test

Color Modes

100

RGB images use three colors, or channels, to reproduce colors on screen.

RGB Color Mode

200

refers to the four inks used in some color printing: cyan, magenta, yellow, and key. The CMYK model works by partially or entirely masking colors on a lighter, usually white, background.

CMYK color mode

300

The mode in Photoshop Elements (or just “Elements,” for short) is most commonly used when printing line art, such as black-and-white logos, illustrations, or black-and-white effects you create from your RGB images.

Bitmap mode

400

color space is a 3-axis color system with dimension L for lightness and a and b for the color dimensions. ... The ___ color space is the most exact means of representing color and is device independent.

Lab Color mode

500

A method of compressing an image that enables 8 bits per pixel to look almost as good as 24 bits per pixel. The technique determines the 256 most frequently used colors in the image and creates a color lookup table, also called a "color map" or "color palette," that is stored with the image.

Indexed Color Mode

File Format

100

Compresses well without losing quality, should be used for the web

JPEG

200

Can be saved in an uncompressed file format with a high resolution, is a common file format used for professional print services

TIFF

300

Can be saved in a compressed or uncompressed file format, is a common file format used for either web or print

BMP

400

Used to publish a rendered video for use on the web

FLV or SWF

500

is a raster-graphics file-format that supports lossless data compression. It is commonly used on the Web and is also a popular choice for application graphics   

PNG

Design Principles

100

is using the relative size of elements against each other to attract attention to a focal point

Scale

200

is creating visual consistency by repeating an element such as colors, styles, or shapes

Repetition

300

is pulling the composition of an image together by using repetition or rhythm

Harmony

400

is creating a difference between elements on a page-- this can be achieved with color or by varying size, fonts, and font styles

Contrast

500

contains elements that lead the reader through each element in order of its significance

Hierarchy

Typography

100

Controls the amount of space between lines of type.

Leading

200

Kerning

Controls the space between two specific characters.

300

Sets the amount of space between a range of characters.

Tracking

400

A variation on a typeface such as bold, italics or normal.

Type Style

Miscellaneous

100

Which of the following is a flexible file format for transferring images between applications and computer platforms? 

Photoshop Raw Format

200

Large document Format

SVG

300

Commercial Printing

EPS

400

Photos

JPG

500

Used in Microsoft Applications

PNG