What Is Photoshop

1. What are the three parts of Adobe Photoshop?

Tittle bar, Menu bar, & options bar

2. What types of professionals use Photoshop?

Animator, web designers, astronomers, commercial printers, photographers, 

3. What are the functions of the three different components of Photoshop?

correcting images, color adjusting, size adjusting

4. Crop Tool 

The Crop tool is used to cut off a portion of your photo to make it smaller or bigger in size.

5. Lasso Tool

The lasso tool is used to select a specific part of a photo and create a specific shape so that when you edit something only the portrait inside the shape that was made gets affected by the edits.

6. Text Tool

The text tool is used to add any text to any picture of your choosing. 

7. What buttons do you push to "Undo" a mistake you made?

To undo a mistake you press Command-Z (Mac) or CTRL-Z (PC)

8. What can you open to "undo" more than one mistake? How do you open it?

To undo more than one action, you have to pull up the History palette. You can do this by going to the Window --> History menu.

9. How do you rotate an image?

To rotate an image you have to go to the image menu and select image rotation.

10. If you don't like the initial cropping box you drew, how can you change it before you make your crop?

Press Return (Enter, on a PC) to confirm your crop, or press the Esc key to cancel the crop.

11. Under the heading "Resizing while Cropping" when you enter dimensions as you crop, what are you telling Photoshop to do as you crop your image? HINT: it involves ratios.

Essentially, you are telling Photoshop which dimensions the image should result in after your crop. 

12. What is the correct resolution for newsletters and newspapers?

newsletters and newspapers are likely to require resolutions in the range of 150 to 200 ppi 

13. What is the correct resolution for magazines?

magazines are likely to prefer high resolution images of 250 ppi or more.