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| Workspace | The gray work area and panels are referred to collectively. |
| Typography workspace | Displays the Character panel, the Paragraph panel, and the Styles panel, all of which you would need for working with text. |
| Essentials | The default workspace, which displays commonly used panels. |
| Context Menu or Shortcut Menu | Appears when you right-click some objects in the Photoshop workspace. |
| Application Bar | Appears at the top of the workspace. Contains the application ico button, the Launch Bridge button, and commonly used controls related to document manipulation. |
| Menu Bar | A toolbar that displays the Photoshop menu names. |
| Menu | Contains a list of commands you can use to perform tasks such as opening, saving, printing, and editing photos. |
| Submenu | If you point to a command on a menu that has an arrow on its right edge, a submenu, or secondary menu, displays another list of commands. |
| Hidden Command | Does not immediately appear on a menu. |
| Options Bar | Displayed below the menu bar. Sometimes also called the Control Panel, it contains buttons and boxes that allow you to perform tasks more quickly than when using the menu bar and related menus. |
| Gripper bar | Located on the left side of the options bar, you can more options bar in the workspace by using this gray gripper bar. |
| Dock the Options Bar | Dock or attach the options bar at the top or botton of the screen. |
| Float the Options Bar | Float the options bar in any other location in the workspace. |
| Tools Panel | A group of tools, or buttons, organized into a movable toolbar. |
| Tool Icon | Each tool on the Tools panel displays a tool icon. |
| Document Window | The light gray area within the workspace that displays the active file or image. It contains the title bar, display area, scroll bars, and the status bar. |
| Document Window Tab | When the title bar is docked, the file information is displayed on this tab, along with a Close button. |
| Display Area | The portion of the document window that display the photo or image. You perform most tool tasks and edit the photo in the display area. |
| Scroll Bars | Appear on the right and button of the document window. |
| Status Bar | Displayed across the bottom of the document window. |
| Magnification | Refers to the percentage of enlargement or reduction on the screen. |
| Message Area | Next to the magnification box. Messages can display information about the file size, the current tool, or the document dimensions. |
| Panel | Collection of graphically displayed choices and commands, such as those involving colors, brushes, actions, or layers. |
| Group or Tab Group | Displays several panels horizontally in a group joined by a title bar. |
| Collapsed Panel | Panels are collapsed when they display only an icon. |
| Minimized Panels | Panels are minimized when they display only their name. |
| Expanded Panels | Panels are expanded when they display their contents. Right-clicking a gorup title bar displays a menu with choices for panel placement and docking. |
| Create a Stack of Floating Panels | Create a stack of floating panels by dragging a panel tab to a location below another floating panel and docking it. |
| File type | The internal characteristics of digital files; it designates the operational or structural characteristics of a file. |
| File extensions | Identified by a three-or four-letter suffix after the file name. |
| PSD format | When you are editing, to preserve the most features such as layers, effects, masks, and styles, Photoshop recommends that you save photos in the PSD format. |
| PSD | Stands for Photoshop Document Format; the default file format for files created from scratch and supports files up to 2 gigabytes (GB) in size. It also maximizes portability among other Adobe versions and applications. |
| Zoom | Magnification or Zooming allows you to focus on certain parts of the photo. |
| Zooming In | Enlarges the magnification and percentage of the Photo. |
| Zooming Out | Reduces the magnification. |
| Navigation Panel | Another convenient way to zoom and move around the photo. Used to change the view of your document window using a thumbnail display. |
| Proxy view area or View Box | The rectangle with the red border in the Navigator panel, which outlines the currently viewable area in the window. |
| Screen Modes | Three ways to view the document window to change the way the panels, bars and document window's appearance: Standard screen mode, Full screen mode and Full screen mode with menu |
| Standard screen mode | Displays the Application bar, menu bar, document window, scroll bars, and visible panels. |
| Full screen mode | Displays only the image and rulers, if they are visible, on a black background. |
| Full screen mode with menu | Enlarges the document window to fill the workspace and combines the Application bar and menu bar. |
| Rulers | Appear on the top and left sides of the document window. Helps you position images or elements precisely. |
| Editing | Making corrections and changes to a photo; involves a wide variety of tasks, such as changing the focus of interest, recoloring portions of the photo, correcting defects, adding new artwork, or changing the file type for specific purposes. |
| Post-Processing | Editing is also called Post-Processing because it includes actions you take after the picture has been processed by the camera or scanner. |
| Crop | Trim away some of the extra and visual clutter on the photo. |
| Rule of Thirds | Also called the principle of thirds, when placing the focus of interest. Imagine that the scene is divided into thirds both vertically and horizontally. |
| Landscape | Photo's orientation to horizontal position. |
| Goldern Rectangle | A 5:8 ratio emulates natural geometric forms such as flowers, leaves, shells and futterflies. |
| Boarder | A decorative edge on a photo or a portion of a photo. |
| Blended Boarders | Not a solid fill; rather, they blend a fill color from the outer edge toward the middle, sometimes providing a three-dimensional effect. |
| Pixel | An individual dot of light that is the basic unit used to create digital images. |
| Selection | Specifying or isolating an area of your photo for editing. |
| Marquee | A flashing or pulsating boarder, sometimes called marching ants. |
| Fill | Blending a color or a pattern into the selection area. |
| Blending modes | Ways in which pixels in the image are affected by a color. |
| Opacity | Refers to the level at which you can see through the color to reveal the paper or layer beneath it. |
| Deselect | removing ther selection indicator so it no longer is displayed when you are done editing a selection. |
| Resize | Means to scale or change the dimensions of a photo; adding to or subtracting from the number of pixels. |
| Interpolation or Resampling | A mathematical process when it changes the number of pixels. |
| Resolution | The number of pixels per inch, printed on a page or displayed on a monitor. |
| Hard Copy or Printout | A printed version of a photo. |
| GIF | Compressed graphic format designed to minimize file size and electronic transfer time. |
| HTML | Hypertext Markup Language, for which to save your photo, which contains all the necessary information to display your photo in a Web browser. |
| Zoomify Command | Allows you to create a high-resolution image for the Web, complete with a background and tools for navigation, panning, and zooming. |
| Optimization | Process of changing the photo to make it most effective for its purpose. |
| Dither | If a Web photo contains more colors than the user's monitor can display, most browsers will dither, or approximate, the colors that it cannot display, by blending colors that it can. |
| Annotation Area | Located below each image in the Save for Web & Devices dialog box, provides optimization information such as the size of the optimized file and the estimated download time using the selected modem speed. |
| Adobe Bridge | A file exploration tool similar to Windows Explorer, it can be used with any of the software programs in the Adobe Creative Suite, to locate, drag, organize, browse, and standardize color settings across your content for use in print, on the Web, and on mobile devices. |
| Metadata | Keywords used for searching and categorizing photos. |
| Thumbnail | a small picture used to organize your folders, set keywords for future searching or simply open a file by double-clicking it. |
| Photoshop Help | At anytime while you are using Photoshop, you can get answers to questions using Photoshop Help. |
