Question | Answer |
Represents the amount of color data that can be stored in a given file format and determines the color model used to display and print an image. | Color Mode |
Determines how pigments combine to produce resulting color, determined by the color mode | Color Model |
An image displayed on your monitor, a geometric arrangement of different color dots on a rectangular grid. | Bitmap |
Each dot in a bitmapped image that represents a color or shade | pixel |
The range of displayed colors in a color mode | Gamut |
The color reflected from or transmitted through an object and expressed as a degree. | Hue |
The strength or purity of the color, representing the amount of gray in proportion to hue. | Saturation |
The measurement of relative lightness or darkness of a color. | Brightness |
Used for lightning, video, and computer monitors; color is created by adding together red, green, and blue light. (RGB) | Additive colors |
The absence of cyan, magneta, yellow, and black creates white. | Subtractive colors |
Uses black or white color value to represent image pixels. | Bitmap mode. |
Uses up to 256 shades of gray. | Grayscale mode |
A blend of colors used to fill a selection of a layer or an entire layer. | Gradient fill |
A method of changing foreground and background colors by copying existing colors from an image | Sampling |
A feature that lets you choose color from a color spectrum | Color picker |
A visual display of colors you can choose from | Swatches panel |
Emphasizing an image by placing a border around its edges. | Stroking the edges |
Predesigned gradient fills that are displayed in the gradient picker | Gradient presents |
Can contain up to 256 shades of gray | Greyscale images |
The remaining light and dark value that result when a color image is converted to greyscale | Luminosity |
Photoshop commands that can significantly alter an image's appearance. | Filters |
Controls how pixels are mad either darker or lighter based on underlying colors. | Blending mode |
The original color of an image | Base color |
The color applied to the base color when a blending mode is applied to a layer. | Blend color |
The outcome of the blend color applied to the base color | Resulting color |
The image your are working with | Target |
The image that contains your perfect color. | Source |
Increases the contrast of adjacent pixels and can focus on a blurry image. | Sharpen more filter |
Three colors used to reproduce colors on screen | Channels |
Mode in which components are combined to create new colors (RGB). | RGB Mode |
The lightest colors are assigned the highest precentages of ink and is used in four-color process printing (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Key(Black) | CMYK Mode |
By dafault this color is black and is used to paint, fill and apply a border to a selection. | Foreground Color |
By default this color is white and is used to make gradient fills or fill in areas of an image that have been erased. | Background Color |