Photoshop Effects
This filter softens edges or creates a dreamy look.
What is the Blur filter?
These repeating designs can fill shapes or backgrounds.
What are Patterns?
The invisible space around elements that makes a layout easier to read is called this.
What is Whitespace?
A principle that balances visual weight across a design.
What is Balance?
This allows you to hide part of a layer so you can show only what you want.
What is a Clipping Path or Clipping Mask?
Use this adjustment to make an image lighter or darker.
What is Brightness/Contrast?
This tool blends two shapes smoothly together. We used this with text and an gradient.
What is the Blend tool?
This shows what’s most important in a layout and guides the reader’s eye.
What is Hierarchy?
This principle deals with the size relationships between elements to create harmony.
What is Proportion?
These are designs that repeat seamlessly to fill shapes or backgrounds.
What are Seamless Patterns?
This adjustment makes colors more intense without over-saturating them.
What is Vibrance?
This effect duplicates a path an increases distance from the original. We used this to make our stickers have a border.
What is Offset Path?
What is it called when you make sure your information lines up evenly on a page?
What is Alignment?
Using repeated elements in a design to create consistency is called this.
What is Repetition?
Graphics made of points and paths that can be scaled without losing quality are called this.
What is a Vector?
This tool lets you adjust specific areas of an image instead of the whole picture.
What is the Adjustment Brush?
You use this tool to draw custom paths with anchor points and curve
What is the Pen tool?
This makes text wrap nicely around an object or image.
What is Text Wrap?
This principle draws attention to important elements using size, color, or placement.
What is Emphasis?
This tool in Illustrator lets you combine, subtract, or divide shapes.
What is the Pathfinder tool?
This effect lets you distort facial features or shapes in an image. We used it to make a splatter effect.
What is the Liquify filter?
This tool removes anchor points or parts of shapes in one motion. It works great to make a vector of a sunny side up egg.
What is the eraser tool?
What is Place?
This principle guides the viewer’s eye through a design, creating visual flow.
What is Movement?
A file type that you save an image as so it has a transparent background when you place it in InDesign
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What is .png?