Review for Test #3

Photoshop Topics:

• Interface and Image Window
  • Navigating in Photoshop
• Highlights, Midtones & Shadows
  • Automatic Image Correction
  • Adjusting Brightness Levels
  • Correcting with Curves
  • Compensating for Flash and Backlighting
• Correcting Color Balance
  • Fixing a Color Cast
  • Tint and Color

You Should Be Able To:

1. Locate the following in the Photoshop Interface:
   • Image window
   • Tool bar
   • Menu bar
   • Options bar
   • Palettes
2. Navigate in Photoshop using:
   • The zoom tool
   • The hand tool
   • Scroll bars
   • Multiple image windows
3. Identify where the highlights, midtones and shadows are in a given image.
4. Explain how the three channels contribute to a given image.
5. Explain how we calculate that there are 16.8 million colors available in the RGB color model.
6. Identify the main differences between the following auto commands:
   • Auto Levels
   • Auto Contrast
   • Auto Color
7. Adjust the luminosity of the highlights, midtones and shadows within a photograph (and its individual channels) using the Levels command.
8. Read and respond to a histogram:
   • Determine whether the majority of the pixels in an image are in the highlights, midtones or shadows.
   • Adjust the black, white, and gray sliders to better balance the histogram.
   • Avoid clipping.
9. Identify images best suited for the Curves or Shadows/Highlights commands.
10. Adjust the hue, luminosity and saturation of a photograph using the Variations command.
11. Adjust the hue and saturation for a given range of colors within a photograph using the Hue/Saturation command.

 

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