Exercise 2

1. What is the keyboard shortcut for the “image size” dialogue box? Alt+Ctrl+I

2. Pixels in a Photoshop document form a _Grid_.

Open auerbach.jpg
3. What are pixel dimensions? 60.2 m
4. What is the width in pixels? 5616 pixels
5. What is the height in pixels? 3744 pixels
6. What is the document size (height x width)? 12.48 x 18.72
7. What is the resolution? 300 ppi

8. Resize auerbach.jpg to 240 ppi. What dimensions change? What are the new dimensions? The Width and Height. Width: 23.4″ Height: 15.6″

9. Resize auerbach.jpg to 72 ppi. What dimensions change? What are the new dimensions? The Width and Height. Width: 78″ Height: 52″

10. Resample auerbach.jpg to 240 ppi. What dimensions change? What are the new dimensions?  Pixel Dimensions: 38.5m Width: 4493 Height: 12.48

11. Resample auerbach.jpg to 4000 pixels wide. What dimensions change? What are the new dimensions?  Pixel Dimensions: 30.5m PWidth: 4000 PHeight: 2667 Width:13.333″ Height: 8.889″

12. Resample auerbach.jpg to 6” wide. What dimensions change? What are the new dimensions? Pixel Dimensions 6.18M, PWidth:1800 PHeight:1200 Width 6″ Height: 4″

13. You need to prepare auerbach.jpg to fit a 5” wide space in a print publication. What steps do you take? Open image size box, uncheck the resample option. Then set the images Width to 5″.

14. You need to prepare auerbach.jpg for a website whose maximum image dimension is 500px. What steps do you take? Open image size box, leave resample option selected.

15. What is a “continuous tone image?” Analog, the colors in an image constantly stay the same tone.

16. Why don’t we see the individual pixels in a typical digital image? The pixels are incredibly tiny. A person has to zoom in to even see them.

17. Image resolution is important for (circle one) print screen

18. What happens when a pixel-based image is enlarged? Pixels are added; Interpolation.

19. True or False: When you resize an image in Photoshop, you are potentially changing the number of pixels in the file. This is usually a lossy operation. False

20. True or False: When you resample an image in Photoshop, you are potentially changing the number of pixels in the file. This is usually a lossy operation. True

21. A common resolution for high quality commercial printing is: 300 PPI

22. A good rule of thumb when capturing digital images (either by scanner or camera) is to: Scanning at highest quality

23. True or False: you can scale how an image prints inside the print dialogue box. True

24. If you want to change the print size of an image without changing the resolution values, what must you do in the image size dialogue box? Uncheck Resample

25. What is interpolation? Creating new data from existing data

26. How can you adjust an image’s interpolation settings in Photoshop’s image size dialogue box? At the bottom of the image size dialogue box there are interpolation settings

27. True or False: It’s easy to maintain high image quality when upsampling an image. False

28. True or False: When downsampling an image for email, you can safely ignore the image’s resolution; what matters is its pixel dimensions. True

29. The native Photoshop file format is: Psd

30. Photoshop’s visual cue for a file that has unsaved changes is a _asterisk_ to the right of the file name in the title tab.

31. You can “step backward” to previous image states by using the _History Panel_.

32. To save an alternate version of a file, go to the File menu and choose _Save As_.

33. The PNG file format is used for interactive design; supports (choose one) Transparency layers

34. The TIFF file format is used for print; supports (choose one) transparency Layers

35. The JPG file format is lossy; what does this mean? As an image is repeatedly used it loses quality. The Image degrades

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