Sunday, December 14, 2008

Scott's catchup for photoshop

Mask - It's a function that serves the purpose of "masking" specific elements of a vector, graphic or bitmap in order to diplay or to not display a certain portion of the image.

Smart filters - allows you to apply, edit, adjust opacity and even apply blending modes to single or multiple filters on a single layer.

Adjustment layers - similar to smart filters in that they create effect and alter the image, except that they only apply to one layer specificly without touching the others.

Wrapped Text - allows you to create a text that wraps around an object.

Selection tools - allows you to select one or more objects at a time and move, alter, or delete objects in groups.

Layer styles - Layer styles are special effects that can be applied to an entire layer overall.

Layers - best described as digital transparencies put one on top of the other to create an overall picture. You can turn them on and off to vary the picture.

Variations - lets you adjust the color balance, contrast, and saturation of an image by showing you thumbnails of alternatives.

Save for Web or Device - used to select optimization options and preview optimized artwork.

Blending Modes - controls how pixels in the image are affected by a painting or editing tool.

Bitmap - Bitmap mode uses one of two color values (black or white) to represent the pixels in an image. Images in Bitmap mode are called bitmapped 1-bit images because they have a bit depth of 1.

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