Working in the Design Industry
Factors to consider when determining which kinds of images to include in your project for a target audience.
What is age of the audience, desired goals of the client, and purpose of the project content?
A Type Layer contains this.
What is type/text?
In Photoshop, display the rulers. Then, set the units of measure to pixels for the Rulers.
1. Select View > Rulers
2. Right-click a ruler
3. Select Pixels
The spacing between specific pairs of characters.
What is Kerning?
These define how content is used by someone other than the content's original creator.
What are usage rights?
The Quick Export feature exports a file to this format.
What is PNG?
In Photoshop, type the word "Cafe". Change the font to Verdana with a size of 80 pt.
1. Select the Cafe layer.
2. In the properties panel, expand the Character section if necessary.
3. Select the Font dropdown arrow.
4. Select Verdana.
5. Highlight the current font size.
6. Type: 80
7. Select the Enter key on the keyboard.
Printing color mode
What is CMYK?
This term applies to works about 50 to 100 years after an author's death.
What is public domian?
To ensure that the type's editability is not lost when applying a filter to a text layer, you should do this.
What is convert the type layer into a smart object?
In Photoshop, create a new file with a width of 1094 px, a height of 672 px, the orientation set to landscape, and include artboards. Name the file Pamphlet.
1. Select File > New.
2. Highlight the file name.
3. Type: Pamphlet
4. Set the measurement to Pixels in the dropdown menu.
5. Set the width to 1094.
6. Set the height to 672.
7. Select the Landscape orientation.
8. Select the Artboards checkbox.
9. Select Create.
A graphic compromised of pixels.
What is a raster?
This protects work from being used without the author's permission.
What is copyright?
Besides having the option to paste an object from another app as a layer or shape layer, these options are available in the Paste As dialog box.
What are paths, smart object, and pixels?
In Photoshop, create a new document made for HDV/HDTV 720p video. Name the document Movie. Accept all other default settings.
1. Select File > New
2. Select Film & Video.
3. Select the HDV/HDTV 720p blank document preset.
4. Highlight the current name of the document.
5. Type: Movie
6. Select Create.
The act of converting a vector path to pixels.
What is rasterizing?
This term refers to work that is a creation of the mind.
What is intellectual property?
The Export As option allows one to choose which ______ to export when exporting a document.
What are layers?
In Photoshop, make a layer with two overlapping circle shapes (like a Venn diagram). Name the layer "Circles". Change the opacity of the Circles layer to 60% and change the blending mode to Hard Light.
1. Select the Circles layer.
2. Highlight the current Opacity.
3. Type 60
4. Select the Blending Mode dropdown arrow.
5. Select Hard Light.
This term refers to the number of pixels in an image or given area.
What is image resolution?
The uncontrolled, undocumented expansion of project requirements beyond the original agreed-upon goals.
What is Scope Creep?
You would use this tool to automatically select the object inside a defined region (with good contrast).
What is the object selection tool?
In Photoshop, make two type layers. Create a new layer group titled Text, and place the two text layers into the group.
1. If necessary, select Window > Layers to display the Layers panel.
2. Select the Create a new group folder.
3. Double-click the group name.
4. Type: Text
5. Drag one text layer on top of the Text group.
6. Drag the other later on top of the Text group.
A graphic comprised of embedded mathematical anchor points, paths, and curves.
What is a vector?
This color mode uses an additive mixing method.
What is RGB?
What you would use to sample an area of a photo and paint it in another area of the photo.
What is the clone stamp tool?
In Photoshop, open an image (not a new file). Apply the Curves adjustment to the Background layer of the image. Set the input of the curves adjustment to 64.
1. Select the Background layer.
2. If necessary, select Window > Adjustments to display the Adjustments panel.
3. Select Curves
4. If necessary, select the Properties panel.
5. Drag the black triangle to the right until the Input value is 64.
The distance between each line of text.
What is leading?
Two effective ways to modify visual heirarchy and readability in a design.
What are adjusting color and modifying font size?
This menu path is used to add new colors to an existing swatch library.
What is swatches?
In Photoshop, create a new brush to work with a drawing tablet. Give it a size of 19 px, adjust the Size Jitter to 25%, adjust the Angle Jitter to 30% in the Shape Dynamcs, and name it TabletBrush.
1. Select the Brush tool.
2. Select Window > Brush Settings.
3. Highlight the current Size.
4. Type: 19
5. Select Shape Dynamics
6. Highlight the current Size Jitter
7. Type: 25
8. Highlight the current Ange Jitter
9. Type: 30
10. Slect the Create new brush icon in lower-right area of the panel.
11. Type: TabletBrush
12. Select the OK button
Used to change the spacing between all characters in a block of text.
What is tracking?
In Photoshop, change the grid lines to dashed with grid line every 64 pixels and 1 subdivision. Show the grid if it is not already showing.
1. Select Edit > Preferences > Guides, Grid and Slices
2. In the Grid section, select the dropdown rrow.
3. Select the dashed line.
4. Enter a Gridline Every value of 64 Pixels.
5. Enter a Subdivisions value of 1.
6. Select the OK button.
7. If the grid is not showing, select View > Show> Grid
What is resampling?
In Photoshop, make a circle. Name the shape layer "Circle". Use the Styles preset options to change the Circles layer image to use the 'sea' style.
1. Select the Circles layer
2. Select Window > Styles
3. Place the cursor in the search field in the Styles panel
4. Type: Sea
5. Select the sea style
In Photoshop, make a rectangle. Name the shape layer "Rectangle 1". Then, use a 700px by 700px square that originates from the center of Rectangle 1 to cut away part of Rectangle 1.
1. Use the Rectangle tool to make your first rectangle.
2. Double-click on the shape layer to rename it "Rectangle 1".
3. Select the Rectangle 1 layer.
4. Select the Rectangle tool in the Toolbar if it is no longer selected.
5. In the Option Bar, select the Path Operations dropdown arrow.
6. Select Subtract Front Shape.
7. Select a spot on the Rectangle 1 shape.
8. Set the height to 700 pixels.
9. Set the width to 700 pixels.
10. Select the From Center checkbox.
11. Select the OK button.
In Photoshop, type the word "Horizon". To increase readability of the brochure, change the tracking on the word Horizon to 10.
1. Select the Horizon text layer or highlight the word Horizon.
2. If necessary, select Window > Character or expand the Character section in the Properties panel.
3. Highlight the current Tracking amount.
4. Type: 10
5. Select the Enter key on the keyboard.
In Photoshop, import a photo. Use the Lasso Tool and Content Aware Fill command to remove an element from the photo.
1. Select the Lasso tool.
2. Use the Lasso tool to select around the object you are removing.
3. Select Edit > Fill.
4. Select the Fill dropdown arrow.
5. Select Content-Aware.
6. Select the OK button.