Destructive vs Non-Destructive
Permanently changes or removes pixels.
What is destructive editing?
Found beside each layer in the Layers Panel, this icon toggles a layer on and off.
What is the eye icon?
This is what a professional would use to remove the background.
What are masks & selections?
Looking straight down on a subject from above creates this camera angle.
What is birds eye view?
With one click, this selection tool can choose areas of an image that share similar color values.
What is the magic wand tool?
T/F
Flattening Layers is non-destructive.
What is false?
A designer looking for the logo layer in a file with 100 layers would benefit from doing this.
What is layers?
Used to highlight fine details and emotions, this shot focuses on only a small portion of a subject, such as a person's eyes or mouth.
What is extreme close up?
A designer wanting to create rectangular or circular selections would use this group of tools.
What are the marquee tools?
When the original information remains available.
What is non-destructive editing?
A designer has finished editing a logo and wants to protect it from accidental changes. They would use this Layers Panel feature.
What is locking layers?
Use the smooth effect to do this.
What is refine edges?
This shot provides context by showing a broad view of the scene and the subject's surroundings.
What is a wide shot?
Instead of tracing an object manually, this Photoshop tool lets users brush over a subject and have Photoshop build the selection automatically.
What is the quick selection tool?
T/F
Professional designers don't delete unless they have to. They hide, mask, and preserve.
What is true?
Instead of scrolling through 100 individual layers, a designer can use these to manage sections of a project more efficiently
What are groups?
Located at the bottom of the tool panel. Use to remove background from selection.
What is the layer mask icon?
By filling most of the frame with a subject's face, this shot helps viewers connect with the character.
What is a close up shot?
A designer wants to remove a background or adjust only part of a photo. They would typically start with these tools.
What are selection tools?
Layer styles, groups, adjustment layers.
What is non-destructive edits?
If text disappears behind an image, adjusting this will bring it back to the front.
What is order layers?
This Photoshop command often serves as the first step in non-destructive background removal by automatically detecting the main subject.
Filmmakers frequently use this shot during dialogue scenes because it shows both facial expressions and gestures.
What is a medium shot?
Powered by Adobe's AI technology, this selection tool is designed to quickly isolate recognizable objects in an image.
What is the object selection tool?