History of Photoshop
Photoshop Shortcuts
Photoshop Tools and Techniques
Photoshop Acronymns
Photoshop Panels
100
In early 1988 this camera manufacturer turned down the rights to Photoshop.
Who is Nikon?
100
Control + G
What is group layers?
100
No need to call the pest control, these marching ants “outline” a different purpose.
What is a selection?
100
PSD
What is Photoshop Document?
100
Store and retrieve frequently used colors and save or import saved swatch sets.
What is the Swatches panel?
200
February 19, 1990
When was Photoshop's initial public release date?
200
Control + =
What is zoom in?
200
These tools get their name from traditional darkroom techniques used to lighten or darken a portion of a photo.
What are dodge and burn?
200
PNG
What is Portable Network Graphics?
200
While working in Photoshop, this panel lets you go back in time and undo your work, up to 20 states by default.
What is the History panel?
300
In 1994, Photoshop 3.0 included this ground breaking technology.
What are layers?
300
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What is increase and decrease brush size?
300
Using only white, black and shades of gray, they control transparency; with white meaning 100% visible and black meaning 100% transparent.
What are layer masks?
300
GIF
What is Graphic Interchange Format?
300
Grayscale images that store different types of information such as RGB, CMYK or Spot and Alpha selections.
What is the Channels panel?
400
Display, Image-Pro & PhotoLab
What are early names for Photoshop?
400
V
What is the move tool?
400
Adjustment Layers, Smart Objects, and not Deleting Cropped Pixels are all examples of this Photoshop editing workflow.
What is non-destructive editing?
400
JPEG
What is Joint Photographic Experts Group?
400
A graphic that shows distribution pixels in an image based on brightness, between 0 to 255 levels of brightness.
What is a Histogram?
500
The engineer who created Photoshop, his name has been listed first on every welcome screen of Photoshop since 1.0.
Who is Thomas Knoll?
500
Control + Alt + C
What is canvas size?
500
An easy way to maintain multiple layer compositions in a single file that can be turned on and off from the layout program the file is placed into.
What are layer comps?
500
TIFF
What is Tagged Image File Format?
500
Brightness/Contrast, Levels, Curves, Hue/Saturation, Invert, Selective Color are all available in this panel.
What is the Adjustment panel?
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