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| BMP Files | files which are pixel-based files usually considered standard Microsoft Windows files. |
| Brush tool | allows you to select a brush, choose its characteristics, including size, shape, spacing, roundness, hardness, angle, diameter, mode, opacity, and more, and then use the brush for various types of artwork |
| Burn tool | tool that is used to darken areas of an image or print |
| CMYK mode | color mode that uses cyan, magenta, yellow, and black to create its colors |
| Direct Selection tool | Use this tool when you want to edit the paths that you’ve created. |
| Dodge tool | Used to lighten areas of an image or print |
| Eyedropper tool | this tool allows you to match a color exactly by clicking on an area of the image and then offers information about that color |
| Foreground color | is used when paint tools are chosen and when Fill and Stroke tools are selected. |
| Gigabyte | A term applied to the size of an image, hard drive, or storage unit; 1,000 megabytes of data |
| Graphic | Any non-text element like a photo, a piece of clip art, or a graph |
| Grayscale | This color mode uses up to 256 shades of gray (or black). Every pixel in the image is defined by its brightness values between 0 and 255 or its percentage of black ink coverage |
| Hand tool | Allows you to scroll through an image that doesn’t fit completely in the viewing window |
| Handle | Small squares that appear around an object when transforming it that allow you to move, resize, reshape, or distort the image |
| Hardness | controls a brush’s hard center and can be set using the slider or by typing in a number |
| Healing Brush tool | lets you correct imperfections in images such as dirt, smudges, and even dark circles under a subject’s eyes. You can match the background texture, lighting, and shadows or shading to “cover up” these flaws. |
| History Palette | shows the list of steps taken to create the image that you are currently working on. The History palette helps you correct errors (by storing what you’ve done to a file previously) and allows you to “go back” to a point before a particular edit was made simply by clicking on the appropriate step |
| K | the symbol for black |
| Menu bar | the bar at the top of the Photoshop interface that contains several headings: File, Edit, Image, Layer, Select, Filter, View, Window, and Help |
| Move tool | Allows you to move a selected part of an image, align layers, and distribute layers in an image |
| Opacity | used to specify how transparent a layer should be, either on its own or in regard to other layers |
| Options bar | located at the top of the interface underneath the menu bar and changes each time a new tool is selected |
| Palette | located on the right side of the interface; they are contained in rectangular boxes and offer tools to help you modify, monitor, and edit images |
| Paste | pastes the selection (from Cut or Copy) into another part of the image or into a new image as a new layer |
| Patch tool | this allows you to choose a part of the image and use it as a sample for repairing another part of the image |
| Perspective | A Transform tool that allows you to apply perspective to an image |
| Pixel | small squares that contain color and make up the structure of an image |
| Resolution | determines how many pixels are shown per unit |
| Revert | returns the file to the condition it was in the last time it was saved |
| RGB mode | color mode that uses red, green, and blue to create the colors you see |
| Rotate | transform tool that allows you to rotate an object around its center point |
| Scale | transform tool that allows you to enlarge or reduce an image’s size horizontally, vertically, or both |
| Bounding Box | available from the options bar when you choose the Move tool or the Path Selection tool. Checking this box allows you to see the area that surrounds a selected object, which in turn makes it easier to move, resize, and rotate a selection |
| Swatches palette | allows you to choose a foreground or background color and allows you to add or delete colors from the swatches library of colors |
| Toolbox | it’s where you’ll find the tools you need to create your artwork and perform editing tasks |
| Undo | moves back one step and reverses the last action taken |
| Zip | A technique used to compress a file |
| Zoom tool | tool that allows you options to resize the image and fit it on your screen |
