Feld's Digital Applications Classes

Monday, May 18, 2009

REVIEW FOR FINAL EXAM

1. What is Photoshop?

2. What are Filters? Why do you use them?

3. What are Layers? Why do you use them? How can you organize your layers?

4. How do you “Desaturate” an image?

5. Why should you use Blending Options in Photoshop?

6. Important Short-Cuts (Command-D, Command-Z, Command-Shift-U, Command-U, Command-J).

7. Review the Tools we learned in Class.

8. How do you Merge Cells in Photoshop?

9. What are Bitmaps?

10. What is a JPEG?

11. What are Pixels?

12. What is Resolution?

13. What is a Digital Camera?

14. What is LCD?

15. What are Megapixels? Multimegapixels?

16. What are Binary Numbers?

17. How do you convert a Photoshop PSD File into a JPEG?

18. What is iMovie? What are the advantages of using iMovie?

19. How do you create a “Feathered Vignette”?

20. Be prepared to do a Photoshop Exercise.


For the Photoshop Exercise. Please review: how to use the different tools in Photoshop (especially the Move Tool, Rectangular and Elliptical Marquee Tool, Magnetic Lasso Tool, Crop Tool, Paint Bucket Tool, History Brush Tool, Eraser Tool - the ones we used in class), how to create a "Feathered Vignette," how to add a frame to an image (using Edit > Stroke), how to change the color of an image (using Hue/Saturation), how to change the Brightness/Contrast of an image, how to add filters, how to “desaturate,” how to duplicate layers, how to add an image to a picture, how to change the "opacity" of a layer, how to add Text, and how to add Blending Options to Text. Basically, review how you created the exercises of the Fourth Quarter.